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Harry Turns 27, Beatrice Graduates, and More Royal News More: continued here

BBC News Rural post offices on chopping blockMiddle East North Africa Financial NetworkSep 20, 2011 (The Montana Standard – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — Donna Brown may live in a rural area, but the post office is just across the street. That's a top priority while caring for her …

Helping to Save Vanishing Species One Stamp at a TimeMarketWatch (press release)With the dedication of its fourth semipostal stamp today, the US Postal Service is helping to save vanishing species 11-cents at a time — specifically tigers, African and Asian elephants, rhinos, great apes and marine turtles. …and more » More: …

Financials pull back on low volume, Apple and Stamps.com hit highs on massive turnover. More: continued here

CrowdFlower offers enterprise crowdsourcing serviceComputerworldSo far, it has named EBay and Microsoft as early adopters. EBay used the service to verify information provided for products posted on its Web site. By using CrowdFlower, EBay found it could cut costs by 70% over hiring its own workers — and get …and …

Ask Those Who Know: Oracle BI Applications on Teradata Deliver Big ValueMarketWatch (press release)"At eBay we significantly accelerated our project time-to-value by implementing Oracle BI Applications on Teradata," said Rajeev Guliani, Senior Manager, Enterprise Applications and Software Development, eBay. "The established technical integration …and more » More: continued here

Boston Globe Congress Is Stealing the Post Office's Lunch Money!Reason Online (blog)The American Postal Workers Union took out some ads this summer aimed at convincing the American people that the US Postal Service is not a big black hole of taxpayer dollar suckitude. And the ads are pretty convincing: The …

Marketing Week Royal Mail to introduce mark on DM in new yearMarketing WeekRoyal Mail is to press ahead with its controversial plans to introduce a “delivered by…” mark on direct mail but is set to concede ground to the industry by using already reserved space on envelopes. It is thought …

Cash point and post office still on the agenda for SouthminsterChelmsford Weekly NewsSouthminster could be about to regain a post office and a cash machine in one foul swoop, as long as plans to move the ATM from the current Barclays building are accepted. A planning application to install a …

RetailWire (registration) Mobile now accounts for more than 10% of all UK eBay purchasesInternetRetailing.netAs more consumers use their smartphones for everything from price comparison to shopping, sales through mobile now account for more than 10% of all purchases on eBay UK. The UK continues to lead the way for mobile …