techcrunch.com - 1/14/2009
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Remember the Amazon Tax? Back in April, the New York State legislature passed a bill requiring Amazon to collect taxes from New York State residents even though it doesn’t have a physical presence in the state (the normal requirement for retailers). The state got around the physical ...
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channelregister.co.uk - 1/13/2009
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channelregister.co.uk —
A New York Supreme Court judge has approved
the state's new-fangled Amazon Tax . Earlier this year,...
Amazon.com and Overstock.com sued New York over an ingenious new law that forces the big-name online retailers to collect sales tax if they maintain ...
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New York judge OKs Amazon Tax • Channel Register
gigaom.com - 1/10/2009
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gigaom.com —
Today, Amazon ( s AMZN) Web Services announced
a management console that illustrates how carefully Amazon is...
playing its role as a platform provider. The new console competes in part with products from RightScale , Elastra (which has backing from ...
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Amazon’s New Management Console Treads Lightly [GigaOM]
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Amazon's Sales Tax Lawsuit in NY State Court Gets Dismissed [Amazon Tax]
Gizmodo —
... use taxes if they had an affiliate seller inside the New York State. This helped the State government bypass a 1992 Supreme Court decision that allowed interstate commerce to be untaxed. Amazon filed the lawsuit in May, claiming that the law, enacted by Governor Patterson, was vague and unconstitutional. While Amazon wasn't against collecting state taxes, it was against dragging all its affiliate sellers into what it felt was a bureaucratic mess. And it kind of is! As Eric Schonfeld of TechCrunch wrote back then: The law, as written, is just a ...
Marketing News Roundup, January 14
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
Wednesday, Wednesday—can’t trust that day.
Silent films are coming to YouTube—but not because of DMCA requests. Instead, YouTube is giving users the option to remove infringing music from videos. Or they’ll do it themselves.
A New York court dismissed Amazon’s objections to paying state taxes, filed after the New York law passed back in May.
A new AdGooroo report takes a look at search ad marketshare. SEL looks at Microsoft’s success formula (More Ads = Better Ads = Better User ...
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