PARIS — Amazon, which got its start selling books online, announced this year that, for the first time, its digital books had outsold paper books.
CourseSmart, a partnership of five major U.S. textbook publishers that offers some 90 percent of textbooks used at North American universities online, announced its intention to expand overseas this year.
The switch online – announced last autumn – is part of the retailer's long-term strategy to reach as many shoppers as possible, particularly those who do not live near a store.
Ameritrade Holdings, which operates a popular online brokerage, has been offering account aggregation at its Onmoney.com site on the Web, and earlier this month, America Online announced an alliance with Yodlee to provide a similar service for AOL's 22 million subscribers.
The company, which will continue to offer free television shows and movies online, announced last week that it would shift its energies to providing an online video platform that other media companies could use -- essentially licensing its technology to broadcasters and other media companies that want to offer video on their sites.
Svpply, the curated social shopping site meant to replicate the experience of traditional window shopping online, announced today that it will shut down on August 31.
Synup, a startup that helps marketers monitor where their brands are mentioned online, announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures.
Netvibes, one of the leading ajax desktops online, announced today that they have added a module for Meebo, a cross-platform web IM system.
NowThis News, the one-year-old online news service, a potential heir to the New York Times or NBC Nightly News except entirely online, announced this week that it has hired Cody Johns as its first entirely Vine-driven 'videojournalist.'videojournalist
