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How Target can beat Amazon’s free shipping

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Some headlines practically require a click, such as this one from Mashable: “Target undercuts Amazon on free shipping.”

How do you undercut free? Is Target going to pay me for the privilege of shipping a package to my house?

No, silly, you do it like this:

The retail chain announced Monday that customers can qualify for free shipping on all orders of $ 25 or more placed through Target’s website “with virtually no exclusions,” down from a $ 50 minimum previously.

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Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage (Phil Wainewright/Software as Services Blog)

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Phil Wainewright / Software as Services Blog:
Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage  —  As of the latest update this afternoon on Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, only a handful of customers are still waiting for their EBS and RDS instances to be restored after Thursday’s harrowing outage.  But for everyone involved …

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Dedicated Hardware Now Available in Amazon’s Cloud (Mikael Ricknäs/PC World)

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Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
Dedicated Hardware Now Available in Amazon’s Cloud  —  Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now run their cloud applications on hardware dedicated to them, the company said on Monday.  —  Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) uses virtualization, based on a customized version of the Xen hypervisor …

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Netflix Embraces Amazon’s Cloud For Critical Services (J. Bonasia/Investor’s Business Daily)

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J. Bonasia / Investor’s Business Daily:
Netflix Embraces Amazon’s Cloud For Critical Services  —  On Aug. 11, 2008, Netflix (NFLX) tech managers detected a “database corruption event” that caused their DVD shipping system to fail.  The firm’s official blog blamed a “key faulty hardware component.”

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