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Amazon.com ordered to stop shipping books free in France.
Apparently, the booksellers union charged that Amazon was violating France’s law that books may not be discounted more than 5% under MSRP by waiving shipping charges on cheaper books. The union also received €100,000 for their trouble.
Amazon can comply or face fines of €1,000 per day for [...]

I’ve written before about my love for footnoted. Today, Wendy has another doozy.
Pilgrim’s Pride, the frozen poultry company, is a favorite at footnoted. The company is largely controlled by the Pilgrim family and they run the company like their own petty cash fund. Both the father and the son sit on the compensation committee that determines the compensation [...]

A post today over at ExUrban League made me laugh and think at the same time. It’s about a German officer that separated his troops into four different groups based on intelligence and work ethic. He found the best group to promote was the smart and lazy because they would see a problem and probably [...]

If you haven’t shopped Amazon.com in a while you may be pleasantly surprised. They’ve rolled out a redesign of the website that brings the site into the 21st Century design-wise.
The sleek new look does away with the old buttons and the orange and white color scheme for a new blue, white, and orange look that [...]

Need a logo but don’t have hundreds (or thousands) to drop on one? HP has a service called Logomaker that will allow you to run through a set of icons and fonts and create your own logo. You’ll have to create a login to use it, but you can use it for free on a limited basis or pay $49 to have control over the logo.

Last time we saw Bob Nardelli the ex-G.E. star was getting pushed out of Home Depot for getting the board to pay him outrageous sums of money even as the stock fell. He had other issues, like refusing to address shareholders at annual meetings, but his pay was wayyyyy over the top and his refusal to take even a modest paycut to save face really summed up Nardelli’s entire tenure at Home Depot. (Not to worry, he did get a $210 million severance package)

Opening up markets is always a good idea and I really hope that Commissioner Martin takes a hard stance on this. It’s time to stop allowing cell phone companies to stifle innovation simply because they can.

The rates would be much more competitive if all of the credits were taken out, but then politicians couldn’t claim to be saving Michigan jobs and making all of those out of state companies that suck the lifeblood out of Michigan pay their fair share. Tax policy always takes a back seat to politics when you have politicians making the rules.

So, if you are losing customers to your rivals and under pressure to increase profits from Wall Street, what’s the one thing you don’t want to do? How about piss off your customers? That’s exactly what Sprint is doing by telling 220,000 customers to find another carrier by the end of the month or lose their wireless number altogether. At least Sprint isn’t making them pay the Early Termination Fee!