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Amazon.com invests in a home shopping network, but not Diller's

By Nicholas Carlson, 4:40 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008, 211 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Amazon.com's new, new thing is straight from the 1980s: a home-shopping network. Live on your TV! Amazon today announced an investment in the Talk Market, which the flacks call "a user-generated TV Shopping Channel" because businesses can upload and edit commercials on the site. [PR Newswire]

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