industryterm:online sales

Amazon faces boycott ahead of holidays as public discontent grows
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/17/amazon-boycott-customers-holiday-shopping

A growing number of customers are fed up with the company, from its working conditions at warehouses to anti-tax lobbying The holiday season is all about spending the time with your loved ones and, judging by most office mailrooms, shopping on Amazon. Last year, 76% of Americans who shopped online for Christmas presents said that they planned to do most of that shopping on Amazon. Amazon now accounts for just shy of half of all online sales in the US and Santa’s not so little helper is (...)

#Amazon #travail #taxation

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Take-Two expects GTA Online sales to ’moderate’ as it beats estimates again
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-08-02-take-two-expects-gta-online-sales-to-moderate-as-it-beats-

Publisher anticipates international growth for NBA2K, too

Nintendo increasing US Switch shipments
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-03-21-nintendo-increasing-us-switch-shipments

GameStop confirms new stock inbound this week, although not enough for online sales

#Hardware #Publishing

’It’s about freedom’: Ban boosts burkini sales ’by 200%’ - BBC News
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37171749

Aheda Zanetti, who claims the trademark on the name burkini and burqini, said online sales were up by 200%
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“I’m an Aussie chick, I’ve been here all my life,” she said.
“I know what hijab means. I know what veil means. I know what Islam means. And I know who I am.”
[…]
“No man in this entire world can tell us what to wear or what not to wear.”
She said the design was partially inspired by reports of France banning the hijab in schools to discourage the growth of Islam.

Bill Gates preaches the aid gospel, but is he just a hypocrite? | Ian Birrell
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/06/bill-gates-preaches-fighting-poverty-hypocrite-microsoft-tax?CMP=twt_gu

In Britain, Microsoft reported revenues of £1.7bn in a single year for online sales on which it paid no corporation tax. This is why if you look at the small print when buying software through its British website, you find you are dealing with a Luxembourg offshoot. A newspaper investigation found a small office there with just six staff handling online sales from around Europe.
None of this is illegal, however absurd it appears. But it is highly unethical, especially when the chairman [Gates Bill] is exhorting countries to hand over taxpayers’ cash to his [Bill Gates’] pet causes – and it certainly tarnishes that saintly image.