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Most people ok with Internet retailers collecting state sales taxes
 How do you feel about paying state sales taxes on Internet purchases? With cash-strapped states increasingly aggressive about trying to collect sales taxes from online retailers such as Amazon, the issue may not be solved until Congress steps in and clarifies matters.
An overwhelming 86% of respondents to a national survey by the the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) feel it would be far easier to pay sales tax on online purchases at the point-of-purchase.
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Tagged Amazon, ICSC, International Council of Shopping Centers, Internet/New Media, Legal, online purchases, state sales taxes, Studies, surveys, reports, Tech life/Culture
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Record number of online retailers achieve high satisfaction scores
 A record 36 of the top 100 online retailers achieve the “threshold for excellence” on the annual Top 100 E-Retail Satisfaction Index from customer experience analytics firm
ForeSee
, with Amazon setting the standard.
Scores of 80 or higher on ForeSee’s 100-point scale are considered superior customer satisfaction performances. In 2010 and 2011, 28 websites achieved this distinction, while in 2009 only six websites cleared the mark. The Index in aggregate plateaus, scoring 78 for a third consecutive year.
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, best practices, customer service, facebook, ForeSee Top 100 E-Retail Satisfaction Index, Internet/New Media, Netflix, Social Media, Studies, surveys, reports
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Facebook tops engagement among smartphone users
 Facebook engages more smartphone users than any other media property, most of it (80 percent) via apps. Twitter, which comes in at 11th on the number of unique visitors it reaches on smartphones, is even more app dependent (96.5 percent). So says comScore’s Mobile Metrix 2.0 service.
Google Sites ranked as the top property with nearly 94 million unique visitors, representing 96.9 percent of the mobile audience. Facebook ranked second with 78.0 million visitors (80.4 percent reach), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 66.2 million visitors (68.2 percent reach) and Amazon Sites 44.0 million visitors (45.4 percent reach).
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Tagged Amazon, analytics, Apple, comScore Mobile Matrix 2.0, engagement, facebook, Foursquare, Google Maps, Internet/New Media, itunes, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pinterest, smartphone use, smartphones, Social Media, Studies, surveys, reports, Tech life/Culture, tumblr, weather, yahoo, Youtube
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New technologies leading states to tax firms for “economic presence”
 States once believed that a corporation needed a physical presence within their borders before it could be subject to an income-based tax or sales tax, but many are shifting to a standard based on “economic presence.”
Amazon and other online companies have fought highly public battles with states over these tax issues. A powerful “Main Street” lobbying effort has fought to get them on equal footing with brick & mortar stores in terms of collecting state sales taxes.
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Getting started with Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Drive
has released its first desktop app, only a few days after the announcement of
Google Drive
. As you may already know, Amazon has been giving 5GB of free storage since a year ago, but there’s no app available to make Cloud Drive easier to use from the desktop unlike many other cloud storage apps that allow you to access and edit files directly from your file folder.
The game has now changed. Amazon has released its desktop app, available for Mac and PC. There are only limited actions that can be done with the app, but it will surely make it easier for its users. This article will guide you to get yourself familiar with the new
Amazon Cloud Drive App
and its limitations.
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Tagged Amazon, Cloud, rr
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EquiTrend poll names top e-reader, digital cam, consumer electronics firms
 As more and more companies adopt a “Bring Your Own Device” philosophy, the most successful technology brands are creating powerful mobile computing devices that span both work and play, reports the
2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend (EQ) study
.
EQ is a yearly study that measures the perceptions of 38,500+ American consumers about more than 1,500 lifestyle, product, and service brands.
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, Canon, Dell, Digital Devices, EquiTrend study, Harris Poll, HP printers, HTC, Internet/New Media, kindle, Kodak, Lenovo ThinkPad, Motorola Xoom, Nikon, Olympus, Samsung Galaxy, smartphones, SONY Tablet, Studies, surveys, reports, Tech life/Culture
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Kindle Fire leads Android tablet market, but larger screens get more use
Amazon Kindle Fire Doubles its Share of Android Tablet Market in Two Months
Tagged Acer Iconia, Acer Picasso, Amazon, android tablet market, Apple, Asus transformer, AT&T, comScore Digital Essentials, Dell Streak, Digital Devices, Kindle Fire, Lenovo IdeaPad, Lenovo IdeaPadd Tablet K1, Motorola Xoom, New York, Sansung Galaxy Tab, smartphone carrier share, Sony tablet S, Studies, surveys, reports, Texas, Toshiba AT100
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Top social brands study reveals insights on effective social marketing tactics
Market Strategies International
released its inaugural Social Media Brand Index, which provides a rigorous view of how top brands across different industries succeeded in social media in 2011.
We’re not surprised to see many of the names on the top 20 list from the index. Starbucks has been a leader in the use of social media marketing from the start, as have Amazon, Disney, Google and Nike.
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Tagged Adidas, Amazon, Apple, best practices, Blackberry, Canon, Coca-Cola, Ford, Google, Gucci, Honda, IBM, Internet/New Media, Market Strategies International, McDonald's, Microsoft, Nike, Panasonic, RIM, Samsung, Social Media, Starbucks, Studies, surveys, reports, top 20 social brands 2011
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E-commerce going in one direction, up, but you can still be in front
John Lawson – Founder, ColderICE.com
By Allan Maurer
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Tagged Amazon, analytics, best practices, Business advice, ColderICE, Digital Summit, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, Events, Internet/New Media, John Lawson, mobile, Telecommunications
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Apple will lose its tablet dominance by 2016
Apple iPads
Tablets are still gaining traction in the mobile device market, with Apple selling a record 3 million new iPads within days of its launch. Amazon’s Kindle Fire is the online retail giant’s best seller, and a host of new tablet devices are slated for release this year.
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, Apple iPad, Hardware, IDC, infographic, Kindle Fire, mobile, Statista, Studies, surveys, reports, tablet market forecast, Telecommunications
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