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Article | 29/05/2012 San Francisco website TaskRabbit expands in the US, London in its sights
Cynthia De Acha didn't know that she could buy fresh New England lobsters in Silicon Valley, but thanks to a recent delivery to a Google executive, sh...
Article | 24/05/2012 Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case
The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a fil...
Article | 19/05/2012 Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma
The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's...
Article | 15/05/2012 FTC shuts down website marketing business
A U.S. court has shut down the operations of a company that allegedly promised it would build its customers websites that would generate income of up ...
Article | 10/05/2012 10 questions for ideeli CTO Mark Uhrmacher
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Article | 4/05/2012 Privy offers social daily deal alternative
Pizza chain owner Melissa Ferriman wanted to boost business using an online social deal promotion. She tried services like Groupon, but eventually cho...
Article | 2/05/2012 VMware to offer enterprise application portal
VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal,...
Article | 27/04/2012 Nintendo to begin digital sales of mainstream titles for 3DS
Nintendo will launch sales of digital versions of mainstream 3DS titles through retailers, beginning with a new Super Mario Brothers game in August, i...
Article | 20/04/2012 Japan's Rakuten to end Chinese e-commerce services under JV with Baidu
Japanese Internet giant Rakuten announced on Friday it would end a major e-commerce business in China with local search company Baidu, citing its fail...
Article | 19/04/2012 Study: Entrepreneurs can save big money with broadband service
Solo entrepreneurs can save more than $US16,000 in their first year by using broadband-based services such as printing and logo design instead of trad...
Article | 12/04/2012 China's online retail market to triple to $US364 billion by 2015: research firm
China is set to become the world's largest online retail market, with sales expected to triple to US$364 billion by 2015, according to a report from T...
Article | 12/04/2012 DOJ's antitrust case may have huge implications for publishing
The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers over alleged e-book price fixing means that the publishers h...
Article | 12/04/2012 DOJ files e-book price-fixing lawsuit against Apple, publishers
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five large publishers, accusing the companies of working together to r...
Article | 11/04/2012 ICE, DOJ seize more domain names of sites accused of selling counterfeits
The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have seized more than US$896,000, plus the domain names of seven websites ...
Article | 10/04/2012 China's Taobao expects explosive growth in mobile shopping
E-commerce sites run by Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group expect the country's mobile shopping market will explode in size over the next two years ...