The evolution in advertising and marketing has taken some radical turns over the last decade as viral campaigns and major social media outlets are becoming more important and vital in drawing in customers. Meanwhile, increasing smartphone and tablet use has meant it has become quicker and easier for shoppers to buy goods. Speaking to IBTimes…
EcommerceBytes (blog) Notes from an eBay In Person AttendeeEcommerceBytes (blog)Have you attended any of the "eBay In Person" events? If so, I'd love to hear your impression of them. I read some very specific feedback on one eBay-related Facebook group, and I contacted the writer, who we've featured before on this blog, but in a…
E-commerce giant eBay has added a 'virtual currency' section to its main US site, enabling users to buy and sell digital currencies like bitcoin, as well as mining contracts and mining equipment. EBay is still not accepting bitcoin or other digital currencies for payments. It is the owner of PayPal, a payment processing firm, which…
Marketplace.org Food Stamps Don't Keep Walmart's Prices Low, They Keep Its Profits HighHuffington PostAs journalist Krissy Clark notes in Marketplace's valuable new series "The Secret Life of the Food Stamp," Walmart benefits from food stamps in multiple ways, as taxpayers both underwrite the company's food sales and also subsidize its payroll costs …Food stamps: Government…
MPs accuse Vince Cable of ignoring City warnings that maximum share price of 330p left Royal Mail undervalued The government's desperation to sell Royal Mail cost taxpayers £750m in a single day, the National Audit Office has said in a scathing report into the privatisation of the 500-year-old national institution. More: continued here
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online FedEx is no stranger to shipping important artifacts and precious cargo around the world, such as the advanced technological equipment used for the search for Amelia Earhart ’s Model 10 Electra airplane and the movement of two pairs of endangered giant pandas from China to Scotland and…
FAIRBANKS—Federal law enforcement agents detained two people outside a Fairbanks contract post office Wednesday afternoon, according to the post office manager. More: continued here
The numbers that explain why Amazon and eBay are pouring millions into …QuartzFlipKart raised $160 million last October, which followed a $200 million round of funding from Accel and Naspers, a big South African company, a few months earlier, taking its total to $540 million. Snapdeal has received repeated injections of cash …What's Next in…
Asheboro Courier Tribune Want to help restore Old Cedar Falls Post Office?Asheboro Courier TribuneIf you cannot attend the meeting but would like to make a donation to help restore the post office building, donations may be sent to the Cedar Falls Community Association P.O. Box 175, Cedar Falls, NC 27230. For more information or to…
Shadow business secretary to follow up damning report by National Audit Office on Royal Mail IPO Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna will ask an urgent question in the House of Commons today on the "botched" privatisation of Royal Mail, after the National Audit Office slammed the government's desperation to sell the 500-year-old national institution ….