Samsung drops patent ahead of ITC hearing
A judge overseeing an Apple v. Motorola Mobility lawsuit will allow comments made by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs to be heard at trial in a Chicago federal court, despite attempts by Apple lawyers to block them, Reuters reports. The comments, directed against Google's Android platform, originally appeared in Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs. "Our lawsuit is saying, 'Google, you f**king ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off.' Grand theft," he said. More famously, he remarked that "Im going to destroy Android, because its a stolen product. Im willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Last month Apple filed to suppress anything from the Isaacson biography to "avoid any potential prejudice to Apple if Motorola attempts to use the book to appeal to the jury's passion." On Thursday, however, Chicago federal judge Richard Posner rejected the request without any explanation. On the same day, Posner additionally blocked Apple from arguing that jurors should favor Apple over Motorola if they like Jobs and/or Apple products. "I forbid Apple to insinuate to the jury that this case is a popularity contest," the judge wrote. For its part, Apple has also promised to ask a California judge to keep references to the Isaacson biography out of an Apple v. Samsung trial, which should start in July.
On Friday, meanwhile, Samsung filed to withdraw a patent from a complaint with the US International Trade Commission against Apple. Gone is US Patent No. 6,897,843, covering a "device and method for storing and reproducing digital audio data in a mobile terminal." Samsung has also withdrawn a single claim, 77, from a patent that will otherwise go in front of an ITC hearing. Patent No. 7,706,348 deals with an "apparatus and method for encoding/decoding [a] transport format combination indicator in [a] CDMA mobile communication system."
In all the ITC will now be looking at four patents, including two alleged to be standard-essential. Samsung earlier filed to prevent Apple from alleging that Samsung failed to make a licensing offer for standard-essential patents on FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms, but a judge denied the motion. Samsung is known, though, to have at one point demanded a 2.4 percent royalty from Apple, which courts may consider too high.
The ITC hearing on Samsung's complaint starts today, but a hearing on Apple's earlier complaint began on Thursday. On June 7th, two preliminary injunction hearings will take place regarding lawsuits filed by both companies in the Northern District of California. In particular, the court will look at motions related to Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone and the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Google Shopping at your service - Independent Online
Reuters
Google unveiled major changes to its shopping business that will likely prove controversial in the e-commerce world.
San Francisco - Google unveiled major changes to its shopping business that will likely prove controversial in the e-commerce world.
Starting in the fall, product search results for users in the United States will be influenced by how much retailers and advertisers pay, a company executive said. In the past, product search results were based mainly on relevance and the program was free.
Google, the world's most popular Internet search engine, will rename its service Google Shopping from the current Google Product Search.
“We are starting to transition Google Product Search in the US to a purely commercial model,” said Sameer Samat, vice president of product management at Google Shopping. “This will give merchants greater control over where their products appear on Google Shopping.”
Google has been in the product listing and search business for about a decade. During that time, it has provided merchants with free access to shoppers. The company made money by running paid product search ads along with the organic, or unpaid, product listings, according to Eric Best, CEO of Mercent, which helps retailers sell through Google and other e-commerce websites such as Amazon.com and eBay.
“Today, that model goes away,” Best said. “It's a very big deal.”
The changes may ultimately help Google extract more revenue and profit margin from its retail advertisers, which account for up to 40 percent of Google's advertising base, Best said.
For retailers, there are upsides and downsides, he added.
“The downside is that retailers are going to have to pay for performance when it comes to e-commerce traffic and revenue driven by or through Google,” Best said. “The free traffic is disappearing.”
The changes may be controversial in the Internet community because Google's search results have traditionally not been influenced by money, Best said.
“Pay-for-placement to some degree is an alternative to purely organic relevancy results,” he said. “The fact that shopping results will be more closely tied to bid-for-placement will not sit well with all advertisers.”
The new program will help retailers make their products more visible to shoppers searching on Google. The old system was difficult for Google to police because retailers could list a lot of products for free. If they have to pay, it may reduce clutter, Best explained.
“Having a commercial relationship with merchants will encourage them to keep their product information fresh and up to date,” Google's Samat wrote in a blog on Thursday. “Higher quality data - whether it's accurate prices, the latest offers or product availability - should mean better shopping results for users, which in turn should create higher quality traffic for merchants.” - Reuters
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Shopping and dining while having their lives saved! - Examiner
I was at the Coconut Grove Gallery Walk this past weekend and noticed a lady walking with an oxygen tank, it was unobtrusive except for the hose going up to her nose. I didn't ask, but after we engaged in conversation (we all do at gallery walks), she mentioned she was in Miami, visiting from Central America, because she was here for medical treatment. She was seeing an oncologist and getting treatment at one of the local hospitals.
What I found interesting was that while here, she was enjoying the art at the Gallery Walk and also visiting restaurants, shopping malls and spending money on a hotel stay while here for her treatment; and she had her whole family with her, all here enjoying what the city has to offer, spending money and having her live literally saved in the process!
Tourism was way up in Miami in 2011 thanks in large part to a 7.2 percent increase in international visitors to 6.5 million. But how many were here not so much to enjoy the sand, sun and fun, but for medical treatment? Many! That's quite a large chunk of the tourism budget.
Large amounts of money flood the area in the form of medical tourism and many people in the know, cater to these special clients. An unknown aspect of medical tourism is that the tourists pay for their own medical care, they don't use medical insurance, and in the process, they not only spend money on hospitals, doctors and medical treatment, but they spend money on hotel stays, restaurant, shopping and more and the patient usually has family members along for the duration.
Navigating the US healthcare system is no simple feat, even for us Americans. Patients needs much needed medical treatment, but how do they begin? This is where medical concierge companies come into play, like <a href="http://www.ornoa.com/">ORNOA</a> (Oncology Referral Network of America).
ORNOA is a patient navigation service developed by Miamian Maria Freed. They've treated over 500 patients in almost two years.
"We provide patient navigation services for these members, and also direct patients to non-members because the goal is to match the patient to the most appropriate provider in South Florida. In light of the continued loss of professional income and the impending 27.4% reduction in Medicare reimbursement , local private practice physicians are starting to pay attention to the international market," says Maria.
In the last 18 months, 70% of the patients have been insured, and 30% were self pays. Medical concierge services negotiate fees for patients that have no insurance. Physicians are attracted to international cases because they offer higher reimbursement than Medicare or Medicaid local patients. In Miami Dade 1/3 of residents have no insurance coverage.
International health insurance carriers are looking for value, and no longer automatically refer to the big hospitals in South Florida, because they deem their fees as too high and service offered to their patients is not optimum. Medical Tourism continues to evolve with many more patients seeking care in places other than the U.S. However, there are still more people who travel to the U.S. for healthcare yearly (approximately 3 million) than travel to any other country.
The strongest service lines for international patients coming to South Florida include oncology, orthopedic surgery, cardiovascular, general surgery and pediatrics.
The next time you're lying out at the pool and shopping at Dadeland, consider the fact that the person right next to you may just have had their life saved last week!
China Online Shopping (B2C) Market Report, 2011-2012 - Yahoo Finance
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With the expanding of Chinese economy and the growing number of netizens, online shopping sees significant growth in market size and increasing investment activities. The number of online shoppers in China registered 158 million in 2010 and 198 million in 2011.
It is in the report that covers the followings:
Characteristics and status quo of B2C market and relevant policies in China;
Investment analysis of Chinese B2C market;
Status quo and development trend of 6 kinds of B2C websites including general merchandise, food & gift, clothing & bags, digital & home appliances, health care and beauty supplies, maternal & child care.
Operation, development, investment and sales of 23 B2C businesses covering Tmall, 360buy, Yihaodian, Xiu.com, Vancl, Newegg China and Suning Yigou.
Since 2010, investment activities intensively have arisen in Chinese e-commerce industry, which can be attributed to the following aspects. On the one hand, the Internet is increasingly used in business field more than in entertainment area; and on the other hand, e-commerce serves as the optimal medium to combine the Internet and traditional consumption.
In China, e-commerce firms usually thrive from vertical B2C, that is, focusing on one or two market segments in order to grow big and strong. However, some vertical websites have started to commit themselves to becoming big and all-embracing platform since 2010. The shift from vertical type to comprehensive platform can utilize market resources to the maximum and accelerate the process to become competitive. So Dangdang and 360buy, featuring books and electronics, spared no efforts in diversifying its product categories and in entering the fields of clothing and daily necessities.
The rapidly expanding market size of Chinese food e-commerce industry suggests that the demand is extremely large in China. But the industry access requirement is higher than expected, so the industry practitioners that lack advantages in product supply chain and are unfamiliar with the e-commerce service system are easily driven out of the market. On October 26, 2011, casual snacks B2C Ximi.com announced the closure and the CEO revealed that the website was overburdened by high logistics costs.
After the clothing and bag online shopping boomed in China in 2010, it tends to grow stable and is expected to break RMB100 billion in 2012.
According to the data from Tmall.com, the largest B2C portal in China, from January to November of 2011, the total online retail sales of large home appliances was nearly quintupled over the same period of the previous year, with growth rate far exceeding that of traditional retailing market, of which, the online transaction for home appliances in the second and third-tier cities saw the fastest growth rate. Consumers in the second and third-tier cities may not be able to purchase the latest products in local shopping mall, and the online shopping breaks through geographical boundaries, so the consumers can easily buy the latest electrical products as long as they can be reached by express delivery service. More manufacturers choose Tmall.com to release their new products, which also helps boost the sales in the second and third-tier cities.
In 2010, the drug retail market size in China approximated RMB173.9 billion, with online sales of just over RMB100 million, while the sales of online drug stores in the United States accounted for nearly 30% of the entire drug distribution industry, from which it can be seen the Chinese drug B2C market enjoys great development potential.
Table of Contents
1 Overview of Chinese B2C Market
1.1 Definition of B2C
1.2 Integrated B2C and Vertical B2C
1.3 Market Features
2. Development Environment of Chinese B2C Market
2.1 Large Number of Internet Users Help B2C Market Development
2.2 Logistics Distribution being a Hindrance to B2C Market Development
2.3 Related Policies
3 Current Development of Chinese B2C Market
3.1 Development Scale
3.2 Competition Pattern
3.3 Market Layout
3.4 Investments
4 Integrated B2C Portals
4.1 Overview
4.2 Tmall.com
4.2.1 Profile
4.2.2 Operation
4.3 Dangdang.com
4.3.1 Profile
4.3.2 Operation
4.3.3 Logistics
4.4 360buy.com
4.4.1 Profile
4.4.2 Operation
4.4.3 Logistics
4.5 Amazon.cn
4.5.1 Profile
4.5.2 Operation
4.5.3 Logistics
4.5.4 Open Platform
4.6 Yihaodian.com
4.6.1 Profile
4.6.2 Operation
4.7 Xiu.com
4.7.1 Profile
4.7.2 Operation
4.8 M18.com
4.8.1 Profile
4.8.2 Operation
5 Food and Gift B2C Portals
5.1 Overview
5.2 Womai.com
5.2.1 Profile
5.2.2 Operation
5.3 Yesmywine.com
5.3.1 Profile
5.3.2 Operation
5.4 Kadang.com
5.4.1 Profile
5.4.2 Operation
6 Clothing and Bag B2C Portals
6.1 Overview
6.2 VANCL.com
6.2.1 Profile
6.2.2 Operation
6.2.3 Logistics
6.2.4 Promotion Strategy
6.3 Mbaobao.com
6.3.1 Profile
6.3.2 Operation
6.4 Zbird.com
6.4.1 Profile
6.4.2 Operation
6.5 Vipshop.com
6.5.1 Profile
6.5.2 Operation
6.5.3 Logistics
6.5.4 Profit Model
7 Digital and Home Appliance B2C Portals
7.1 Overview
7.2 Newegg.com.cn
7.2.1 Profile
7.2.2 Operation
7.3 Lusen.com
7.3.1 Profile
7.3.2 Operation
7.4 139shop.com
7.4.1 Profile
7.4.2 Operation
7.5 Coo8.com
7.5.1 Profile
7.5.2 Operation
7.6 Suning.com
7.6.1 Profile
7.6.2 Operation
8 Health and Beauty B2C Portals
8.1 Overview
8.2 Jxdyf.com
8.2.1 Profile
8.2.2 Operation
8.3 Lafaso.com
8.3.1 Profile
8.3.2 Operation
9 Infant Supplies B2C Portals
9.1 Overview
9.2 Redbaby.com.cn
9.2.1 Profile
9.2.2 Operation
9.3 Lvhezi.com
9.3.1 Profile
9.3.2 Operation
Selected Charts
Industrial Chain of B2C
Subscribers of Online Shopping in China, 2007-2014E
Penetration of Online Shopping Subscribers in China, 2009-2014E
Revenue of Online Shopping Express Delivery Market in China, 2007-2012E
Policies concerning Online Shopping
Transaction Size of B2C Market in China, 2009-2011
Number of Online Retail Businesses in China, 2007-2012E
B2C Market Share Distribution in China, H1 2011
Top 10 B2C Portals by Subscribers in China, 2011
Penetration of B2C Portals in China, 2010
Geographical Distribution of E-commerce Firms in China, 2011
Investments in E-commerce Market in China, 2005-2011
Investment Cases in E-commerce Market in China, 2005-2011
Financing of B2C Companies in China, H1 2011
Sales Comparison of Platform and Integrated B2C Portals, 2004-2011
Sales of Tmall.com, 2008-2011
Sales of Tmall.com by Month, 2010-2011
Sales of Tmall.com by Sector, 2011
Sales Breakdown of Tmall.com by Sector, 2011
Sales of Clothing and Bags of Tmall.com by Month, 2011
Sales of Household Goods of Tmall.com by Month, 2011
Sales of Automotive and Sports Articles of Tmall.com by Month, 2011
Sales of Skincare and Cosmetics of Tmall.com by Month, 2011
Sales of Food and Health Products of Tmall.com by Month, 2011
Sales of Digital and Home Appliances of Tmall.com by Month, 2011
Sales of Maternal and Baby Products of Tmall.com by Month, 2011
Venture Capital Obtained by Dangdang.com
Sales of Dangdang.com, 2008-2011
Operating Revenue Breakdown of Dangdang.com, 2010-2011
Operating Expenses of Dangdang.com, 2010-2011
Gross Profit of Dangdang.com, 2008-2011
Gross Margin of Dangdang.com, 2010-2011
Net Income of Dangdang.com, 2008-2011
Growth Rate of General Merchandise Business of Dangdang.com, 2010-2011
Number of Digital Goods of Dangdang.com, 2011
Range of E-book Prices of Dangdang.com, 2011
Distribution of E-book Discount of Dangdang.com, 2011
Sales of 360buy.com, 2004-2011
Daily Order Volume of 360buy.com, 2005-2011
Overview of Operation Center of Amazon.cn
Development History of Yihaodian.com
Sales of Yihaodian.com, 2008-2011
Sales of Xiu.com, 2009-2011
Sales of M18.com,2006-2011
Sales Comparison of Food and Gift B2C Portals, 2004-2011
Venture Capital Obtained by Yesmywine.com
Sales of Yesmywine.com, 2008-2011
Sales of Kadang.com, 2006-2010
Sales Comparison of Clothing and Bag B2C Portals, 2004-2011
Sales of VANCL.com, 2008-2011
Sales of Mbaobao.com, 2008-2011
Sales of Zbird.com, 2006-2011
Number of Registered Users of Vipshop.com, 2009-2011
Number of Active Users of Vipshop.com, 2009-2011
Number of Repeat Users of Vipshop.com, 2009-2011
Sales of Vipshop.com, 2008-2011
Gross Profit of Vipshop.com, 2008-2011
Gross Margin of Vipshop.com, 2009-2011
Sales Comparison of Digital and Home Appliance B2C Portals, 2004-2011
Sales of Newegg.com.cn, 2004-2011
Sales of Lusen.com, 2006-2011
Partners of 139shop.com
Sales of 139shop.com, 2006-2011
Sales of Coo8.com, 2007-2011
Sales of Suning.com, 2010-2012E
Sales of Jxdyf.com, 2008-2011
Sales of Lafaso.com, 2009-2011
Venture Capital Obtained by Redbaby.com.cn
Sales of Redbaby.com.cn, 2005-2011
Sales of Lvhezi.com, 2009-2011
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