eBay mobile chief to keynote Internet Retailer m-commerce conferenceInternetRetailer.comSteve Yankovich, vice president of mobile at eBay, will keynote the third annual Mobile Commerce & Marketing Forum Oct. 8-10 in San Diego. The executive who leads a team responsible for $5 billion in mobile commerce sales in 2011 will headline Internet …

euronews Ofcom hands Royal Mail price-setting powerseuronewsBy Neil Maidment LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Mail will be able to set prices for most of the letters and parcels it delivers under a new seven year framework, industry regulator Ofcom said on Tuesday. Royal Mail, earmarked for privatisation, … More: continued here

eBay Tuesday: J.N. Lapointe AdvertisementPatch.comAt first glance, this advertisement almost looks like a sewing machine. So its placement in the August 1920 issue of Railway Mechanical Engineer Magazine seems a little out of place. But it turns out that this machine is actually used for broaching, … More: continued here

'Sons of 2 ex-CMs in 640 crore stamp duty franking scam'Times of IndiaUpping the ante over the alleged large-scale misappropriation in the contracts awarded for franking of stamps for payment of stamp duty, opposition leader in the legislative council Vinod Tawde (BJP) hinted at the involvement of the sons of …

Disaster Food Stamps Available Thursday For Tornado Victims In 10 Counties …The ChattanooganThe D-SNAP program is the Food Stamp Disaster program approved via a waiver from the USDA, Food and Nutrition Service. The program allows households that are not otherwise eligible for the standard SNAP program to receive supplemental food …

Postal officials are pushing for legislation that will allow them to make cuts in spending this year, but the Senate vote lacked the 60 votes needed to move to a floor debate. More: continued here

Watershed post Treadwell post office to closeWatershed postBy Lissa Harris Barlow's General Store, which houses and runs the Treadwell Post Office. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license. Treadwell resident Linda Norris got a nasty shock while picking up her mail this week: … More: continued …

Rural post office planKMTR NewsSource 16WASHINGTON, DC – Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley today announced that he will be offering an amendment to major legislation overhauling the US Postal Service (USPS) to save rural post offices now targeted for closure. Merkley's amendment would require … More: continued here

Harvard Dropout Thrives as Turkey E-Commerce Lures Amazon: TechBloombergAfra's Markafoni, the second most-visited members-only shopping network in the world, is a frontrunner in an industry that grew almost 60 percent in Turkey last year and has attracted investment from EBay Inc. (EBAY), Amazon.com Inc., Kleiner Perkins …and more » More: continued …

The price of a first-class stamp will rise from 46p to 60p, and second-class from 36p to 50p, from 30 April. More: continued here