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After months of hardly-secret negotiations between the two clubs, it’s now official — D.C. United will take on La Liga’s Real Madrid in a friendly at FedEx Field on August 9. The game will likely be a mid-afternoon kickoff, and United’s previously scheduled August 8 home match against Kansas City …
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Read More »Royal Mail launches tamper-proof stamp – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail launches tamper-proof stampTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThe Royal Mail has launched a new tamper-proof stamp in a bid to stop people peeling off old ones and re-using them. The fraudulent act costs the company tens of thousands of pounds a year. The problem has thought to have recently increased as …
Read More »eBay Adjusts Affiliate Program to Reign in Seller Tools (AuctionBytes)
eBay wants vendors to stop tying its affiliate program to their seller tools, the company acknowledged on Wednesday. After AuctionBytes learned Auctiva would begin instituting fees (see related story), we inquired of eBay whether it was making any changes that might account for Auctiva’s move to a paid model. More: …
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