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RLPC-Banks in talks on pre-IPO loan for Royal Mail-sourcesReuters UKRoyal Mail's flotation is expected to take place this autumn. The group has 150,000 staff and annual sales of 9.5 billion pounds ($14.7 billion). British media reports have put a likely stock market value of between 2 billion pounds and 3 …

Trying to make sense of the estimated 100 terabytes of new data received every day to meet changing customer expectations and keep a competitive edge has led eBay to start using big data platforms.         More: continued here

Two postal workers have been taken to San Francisco's St. Francis Memorial Hospital due to a possible hazardous materials situation. More: continued here

San Francisco: Hazmat team sent to post office, St. Francis hospital to …San Jose Mercury NewsA San Francisco post office was evacuated late this morning after five employees found a mysterious white powder on their clothing and walked to the nearby Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, according to a city health …

Washington Examiner Internet Tax Bill Should Protect Small Businesses: eBayYahoo! Finance (blog)EBay wants the Marketplace Fairness Act to exempt small businesses that make less than $10 million in annual out-of-state sales or have fewer than 50 employees. Brian Bieron, senior director of Global Public Policy at eBay, tells The Daily …

The U.S. Postal Service has temporarily suspended delivery to a western Pennsylvania apartment complex after a carrier walked in on a drug deal. More: continued here

hays Post Post Office food drive set for May 11Redwood Falls GazetteLast year, postal carriers from the Redwood Falls Post Office collected over 1,500 pounds of food on Stamp Out Hunger day; this coming Saturday, May 11, the U.S. Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will …

An enterprise architect for FedEx, Viljay Banga talked in depth with theCube hosts Dave Vellante and David Floyer of Wikibon about the technical aspects of backup at EMC World this week. In the past, there were certain challenges regarding backup, … Continue reading → More: continued here

eBay employs big data platforms to drive competitive edgePC AdvisorHowever, getting the value proved difficult because eBay's integrated analytics environment has more than 100,000 data elements, 90 petabytes of stored data and tables containing 3.5 trillion rows of data. According to Liang, this environment was not …and more » More: continued …

FedEx Ground Package System Inc. has confirmed interest in Cecil Commerce Center for a logistics center. More: continued here