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Mike Sugerman's About the Bay travels to Canyon, where a small community is saddened by the threat of their post office's closure More: continued here

Mississippi post offices offer Breast Cancer Awareness stampsWDAM-TVHATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) – Approximately 400 post offices across the state of Mississippi are competing to sell breast cancer awareness stamps in an attempt to raise money to find a cure. For the month of October, the extra eleven cents to buy the …

Natural gas scare prompts post office evacuationKTVOLANCASTER, MO. — A natural gas scare prompted the evacuation of a Heartland post office late Monday morning. It happened around 11:30 a.m. at the post office in Lancaster. That building on the northeast corner of the square was evacuated after someone … More: continued …

Scam goes after eBay usersCBS NewsThe Better Business Bureau is warning of a scam in which eBay users viewing listings on the e-commerce site are surreptitiously moved onto a series of other sites. Typically, the user will encounter a listing with a particularly tempting price and then …and more » More: …

ADT Magazine eBay Open Sources Big Data ToolADT MagazineeBay said the technologies behind the Kylin approach aren't new, but it has taken Hadoop's distributed computing model — including the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) — and used it to improve on, for example, calculating and storing values from … More: …

eBay Inc. (EBAY) released its 3Q14 earnings last week and reported that its revenues and EPS, or earnings per share, for the third quarter met its own expectations. More: continued here

Gazette Live Delight as Normanby gets a post office again after 16 months without oneGazette LiveIn March, a petition was begun to return a post office to the village, the previous one having closed on July 5, 2013. Traders said having no post office hit the community hard, with people …

Davenport post office hosts Batman stamp unveiling: The Davenport post office will host a special event unveiling a commemorative cache and pictorial postmark in celebration of the 75th anniversary Batman Forever series stamps release. The event will be noon today in the lobby of the main post pffice, 933 W. 2nd …

In digital age, stamp collecting still makes its markCBS NewsNEW YORK – On the centennial anniversary of the annual American Stamp Show, hundreds of philatelists – people who study and collect stamps–flocked to a hotel hall in midtown Manhattan littered with dozens of booths. Each table proudly displayed the … More: …

This Diwali, e-commerce companies made all the noise, enticing consumers with deep discounts and freebies. Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon and rest of the pack were all over the media with their advertisements and campaigns. More: continued here