Amazon's grand plan to eat the world

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If you want to understand Amazon’s grand plan, you could do worse than read this article. The founder of a tech start-up for Tech Crunch explains that while many elements of Amazon could be copied by a large company such as Wal-mart, the e-tailer is well-defended. The writer argues that its success lies in “the fact that each piece of Amazon is being built with a service-oriented architecture, and Amazon is using that architecture to successively turn every single piece ...