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Service Channels (Web Host Directory)
A new package of eCommerce services helps customers feel safe trading with eMerchants.
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RealDVD Works Great - If You Can Get It (TechNewsWorld.com)
RealNetworks released its controversial RealDVD movie ripping application last week but within days removed the program from its Web site due to a legal feud with the Motion Picture Association of America. RealNetworks provided TechNewsWorld with a final prelease version of the RealDVD software last week in consideration of a new product review.
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Whooping It Up: Woopra Crashes the Web Analytics Party (E-Commerce Times)
Woopra, a new Web-tracking and analysis service designed by iFusion Labs, began quietly enough. iFusion Labs CEO John Pozadzides, along with his partners, Elie Khoury and Jad Younan, launched the site at Word Camp, a convention for bloggers, in March 2008, offering memberships to 200 attendees.
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IBM Enlarges Sphere of Influence in the Cloud (E-Commerce Times)
IBM's considerable footprint in the cloud computing space is growing larger. The company has announced an expansion of its ISV (independent software vendor) partner network; it has also launched a beta version of Bluehouse -- a social networking and collaboration cloud service designed to connect people from different businesses.
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Ask.com Taps Semantics for Smarter Search (E-Commerce Times)
Ask.com rolled out a new version of itself Monday. The revamped search engine includes a new user interface with three new technologies -- DADs, DAFS and AnswerFarm -- that offer users the ability to search the Web using commonly spoken language. The enhancements to Ask.com will help the site retain existing users and attract new, said Caroline Dangson, an IDC analyst.
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eBay Bites Bullet, Jettisons 1,000 Jobs (E-Commerce Times)
Online auctioneering pioneer eBay announced it will slash 1,000 jobs and acquire online payment processor Bill Me Later for $820 million in cash and $125 million in outstanding options. The 1,000 layoffs will cut San Jose, Calif.-based eBay's total workforce by 10 percent and will result in a pretax restructuring charge of about $70 million to $80 million.
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Facebook's Other Founder Goes Off to Found Some More (E-Commerce Times)
One of Facebook's two cofounders is jumping ship to start his own Internet company. Dustin Moskovitz announced he'll leave the social networking site in about a month. He and colleague Justin Rosenstein, a Facebook engineering manager who previously worked at Google, will launch a new enterprise software business.
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ubExact Gives Search a Little More Personality (TechNewsWorld.com)
Google and Yahoo are so well established in my daily Internet search routine that I wasn't expecting to find anything new with a beta engine from a start-up search company. But ubExact had more than one pleasant surprise in how it lets users search. ubExact launched its beta on Sept. 2.
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Generating Leads in a Web 2.0 World (E-Commerce Times)
Marketing is going through a revolution online, thanks to the continual adoption of the Web 2.0 concepts originally defined by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty. If you want to see some excellent graphics and analysis explaining Web 2.0, subscribe to Ross Dawson's blog, Trends in the Living Networks.
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Schwarzenegger for President? (E-Commerce Times)
After watching the first presidential debate, one person on that stage clearly showcased the leadership, focus and bipartisan attitude the U.S. needs to turn itself around. Unfortunately, Jim Lehrer isn't actually running, so it didn't help my own decision process much, and I remain decisively undecided at the moment.
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