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Watch Out eBay, Amazon: The Year of the Third Party Seller Is Here

>Amazon is aggressively courting SMB's (Small and Medium Sized Business...

No, it's not. My publishing company has a line of 40+ ebooks on computer-aided design. Amazon repeatedly denies my wish to be able to sell the ebooks on their site. And I've been trying for more than a year.

Their reason?

They only take publishers with 1000 or more ebook titles.

Lululemon Athletica: Heading for Single Digits

LuLu clothes are currently popular with this market segment: teenage girl figure skaters, as well as skaters aged 20+. LuLu hoodies, sweats, and so on, are pretty much de rigour dress uniform for skating practices and warmups.

Should Starbucks Blame the Economy or the Strategy?

>"Someone loses a job, or even more common, gets nervous about losing a job, and what do you expect them to do about unnecessary spending?"

I cannot agree. People go to Starbucks to console themselves, to make themselves feel better.

I work with a former drug addict who is struggling to find work. Every Friday, he goes to Starbucks to buy 4 coffees to hand out to homeless people. He tells me, "It makes them feel better to have a drink of really good coffee -- not the Salvation Army kind."

Autodesk Is My CAD Play

Also, think3 is not doing well, having largely retrenched back to Italy, having closed nearly all its facilities in the USA.

Autodesk Is My CAD Play

There are a number of errors in this article. For example, Revit is not project management platforms, but architectural design software.

SolidWorks does not provide "limited competition," but is considered by Autodesk the primary competitor to Inventor.

Acrobat 3D is not "akin to offering gold-plated trinkets on the street outside of Tiffany’s jewelry store" but a completely different product from anything Autodesk offers. For example, Acrobat 3D includes translators for numerous CAD systems, which is not available from Autodesk.

Is The Canadian Dollar Overvalued?

In light of the Canadian dollar reaching its all-time post-WWII high today, this column seems like a cruel practical joke for we Canadian exporters suffering from the 7% discount on each US$1 we take in.

Nokia's Marketing Missteps Help Apple's Euro iPhone

If Zune was a failure, then how could "Zune hardware and music stores [take] millions of dollars in sales out of partners' pockets overnight"?