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Apple Banks On Oprah For A Leg Up In Chasing Amazon On Content

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More practically, this means the consumer can buy and access Oprah Book Club selections via the Apple Books service (both eBooks and audiobooks), and Apple TV will feature the famous former talk show host out of Chicago interviewing authors. Indeed, the streaming market is an increasingly competitive space. What About Amazon?

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Can Oprah Give Apple A Leg Up As It Chases Amazon?

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More practically, this means the consumer can buy and access Oprah Book Club selections via the Apple Books service (both eBooks and audiobooks), and Apple TV will feature the famous former talk show host out of Chicago interviewing authors. Indeed, the streaming market is an increasingly competitive space. What About Amazon?

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Amazon To Enter Food Delivery Business In India

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With a move that could make an increasingly crowded market more competitive, Amazon is reportedly planning to roll out a food delivery service in India. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported.

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Demand For Books Surprisingly Outstrips Supply During Pandemic

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Shut-down bookstores and closed classrooms initially depressed sales in the market, particularly of educational books. That perk-up is occurring at the same time the market is seeing similar growth in gaming, streaming and other home-based sources of entertainment as consumers remain in lockdown, first by statute and then by choice.

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India’s Festive Season Starts Strong For Flipkart, Amazon

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Although Amazon entered the market seven years after Flipkart, the eCommerce giant has captured a large portion of Indian business through Prime, which the company rolled out in the country in 2016. The news comes during a slowdown in the country, which has led the government to introduce tax cuts and various other measures to boost growth.

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Today In Data: Mexican eCommerce, Blockchain And VC Funding All See Growth

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Here are the numbers: $17 billion | Value of the Mexican eCommerce market. Players like Amazon and Walmart are working to cut themselves a larger chunk of that pie, and they are doing so by introducing “hybrid payment systems” that accommodate cash-based transactions for online purchases. for PYMNTS’ 2018 Forecast eBook.

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Payments 2016: The Year Of An Incredible Shift In Retailer And Consumer Expectations

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PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. We as customers live in a world where we want easy, instant, customized, mobile and dynamic options to suit our personal situation. This is changing now.

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