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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rob S. who wrote (25170)	11/9/1998 8:54:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Respond to of 164684

Death Knell for AMZN. Bezos: Kate Delhagen, director of retail research for Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., says Amazon appears to be executing a plan to dominate the sale of media products on the Net. She predicts that after adding a full line of videos and computer software, Amazon will go after toys and consumer electronics, categories that fit its goal of making personal shopping recommendations. ... A New Focus Rather than sell new products directly, Bezos says Amazon.com for now is focused on developing the comparison-shopping technology it acquired when it bought Junglee Corp. Junglee created the Web-based software that powers shopping guides for Yahoo Inc., NBC's Snap and Lycos Inc.'s HotBot. Amazon's purchase of Junglee puts those deals in jeopardy when they expire. Bezos says he's interested in developing alliances with Internet sites to help them sell merchandise, but he notes that Amazon is not in the business of licensing software. ... The Junglee purchase injects Amazon into the competitive comparison-shopping arena that Microsoft entered last month when it revamped its regional Sidewalk guides, adding a national focus and a consumer buying guide. While Sidewalk will try selling advertising to earn its keep, most online shopping guides don't rely on ads alone. They charge listing fees to merchants and collect commissions when customers click through to make purchases. Rob S:MSN, Excite and other portals have equipped their sites with "one-click" purchasing capability so that users can buy from a number of vendors with a single sign-up being required. Slowly now bulls: AMZN, company with a reputation for books, maybe cds, videos, and software too, will attract more shoppers than the shopping sites, run parallel by different portals and malls which will become the web standard, than yahoo, excite, msn, nscp, seek, etc. etc. ... amzn is not a mere retailer, a seller of commodity goods .... it is much much more ... perhaps you'll come to believe this too.