'Amazon' Tag
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My cat ate my {insert product}
December 4, 2018Holiday season is upon us, along with holiday shopping season. Perhaps this problem has existed for a while, but it seems that fake online product reviews have jumped by an order of magnitude this year. The severity of the fake review problem first struck me this summer, when I found myself in the middle of […]
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Don’t judge every regulation by its cover
February 4, 2014Last month the French parliament voted in favor of a new law regulating the discounts allowed by book merchants. Sponsored by French Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, the “anti-Amazon law” is aptly nick-named as it set its sights directly on the $150 billion e-commerce giant by prohibiting its practice of combining a 5% price discount […]