NEW YORK (TheStreet) — A couple of months ago the UK government announced its intention to privatize the Royal Mail through a public stock offering as soon as April 2014. Spearheaded by Business Secretary Vince Cable however the timeline for a stock flotation has accelerated and could be as soon …
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The Advisory Committee on Post-office Employment for Former Chief Executives & Politically Appointed Officials has endorsed a job proposal from former Central Policy Unit full-time member Charles Kwan. He plans to form a publishing consultancy company and serve as its director. The committee said it would not cause any potential …
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Read More »Ferrari Driven in Pepsi Commercial By Michael Jackson Hits EBay – Huffington Post
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Read More »UK Readies Royal Mail Privatization – Wall Street Journal
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Global e-commerce firm eBay Inc formally inaugurated its second global development centre in India here on Thursday. The centre, which has been informally operational since May this year, w… More: continued here
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ChannelAdvisor works with thousands of online retailers and hundreds of e-commerce channels to sell billions of dollars of Gross Merchandise Value (GMV). Due to its breadth of customers and channels its analysis of Same Store Sales (SSS) for Amazon and eBay gives one indication of how their U.S. business is …
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