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Article | 29/03/2013 Bitcoin exchange faces DDoS, even as the digital currency surges
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing.
Article | 28/03/2013 Amazon to acquire Goodreads book recommendation site
Amazon.com will acquire Goodreads, a website that recommends books.
Article | 28/03/2013 Amazon to acquire Goodreads book recommendation site
Amazon.com will acquire Goodreads, a website that recommends books.
Article | 28/03/2013 Get those jeans delivered today via Google
Google wants to take the immediacy of online search and apply it to something a little more tangible: retail. Starting Thursday, a small pool of shopp...
Article | 23/03/2013 US senate passes Internet sales tax proposal
The US Senate has overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within th...
Article | 21/03/2013 Senators add Internet sales tax amendment to budget resolution
A group of U.S. senators have offered a nonbinding amendment to a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution allowing states to collect sales taxes on Interne...
Article | 19/03/2013 Chirpify opens up Facebook's News Feed for business
Facebook's News Feed is a popular landing page for photos and updates from friends, but now it can also function as a digital storefront of sorts, thr...
Article | 19/03/2013 Supreme Court reaffirms resale of copyright works
U.S. residents have the right to resell software and other products protected by copyright even when they are manufactured overseas, the U.S. Supreme ...
Article | 11/03/2013 Alibaba names 'low-profile' CEO to replace Jack Ma
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group named its new CEO to replace Jack Ma, choosing from within its ranks long-time company executive Jonathan Lu, w...
Article | 8/03/2013 FTC: Mobile carriers should take steps to fight bill cramming
Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payme...
Article | 7/03/2013 Bitcoin processor links web shopping carts to Amazon.com's shipping
Amazon.com and bitcoin now have an interesting link: A popular e-commerce shopping cart for merchants can now accept bitcoin payments and move orders ...
Article | 6/03/2013 Facebook's new News Feed wish list includes mobile and highlighted friends
Facebook is set to unveil an updated News Feed on Thursday and analysts have a wish list of changes that users might welcome.
Article | 5/03/2013 SAP pins future hopes on growth of Ariba business network
After 12 successive quarters of double-digit growth at SAP, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe is now pinning his future hopes on the company's recently acquir...
Article | 1/03/2013 Tech groups question new do-not-track bill
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce gr...
Article | 28/02/2013 PayPal accepts coins and paper currency at Coinstar kiosks
A PayPal alliance with Coinstar is being expanded to some parts of the U.S., allowing customers to deposit, withdraw and transfer funds to PayPal acco...