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SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines – Federal Express” last flight will land at the Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) Friday at around 3:30 a.m., marking the end of its 13-year-old Asian hub operations here. More: continued here

Analysts expect companies in the S&P 500 to post negative revenue growth rate in the third quarter. Meanwhile, profits are expected to decline by 2 percent for the period. More: continued here

Do not try and impress your favorite college by bombarding them with tons of e-mails and phone calls inquiring about the status of your application. You will look desperate. Overnight FedEx inquiries to the admissions office will only serve to alienate them. They call this tactic “stalking” and react very negatively to it. It will…

Soros Made Major Portfolio Changes in Q4 2016 (AMZN, EBAY)InvestopediaSoros seems to have either significantly trimmed or eliminated entirely his positions in a number of e-commerce companies, including Amazon.com (AMZN), eBay Inc. (EBAY), and other related ventures. In fact, from his 13-F, it appears that Soros cut out … More: continued here

… Scott Anthony Raney, 29, of Raceland, corresponded with a person purportedly in Nigeria, who agreed to FedEx fake $100 bills. Raney was then expected to sell the $100 bills and send the person in Nigeria a portion of the profits. More: continued here

Reuters UK Amazon Deal Shows “Local” Is New E-commerce BuzzWall Street Journal (blog)On Tuesday, eBay spent an undisclosed sum on product search site Milo.com, which collects data about the products that are in stock at local stores. …Amazon, eBay, Google going localReutersGoogle's Groupon Grope Launches Local FrenzyBarron’s (blog)Google's Bid for Groupon Drives Interest in Daily-Deal…