Online Shoppers Wary Of High Shipping Costs

Close to half (45%) of online shoppers have abandoned their carts multiple times in the past three weeks due to high shipping costs, security concerns and lack of convenience, according to a new survey released by PayPal and conducted by comScore. High shipping costs was the most commonly given reason for cart abandonment with the average cost of abandoning U.S. shopping carts reaching $109. The…

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Make Sure Friends Know Who You Are on Facebook

Facebook is now letting users have more than one name. This is especially helpful to those people who are actually known by more than one name, which is a fairly common occurrence. Users can adjust their settings to display one alternate name in addition to their current name:

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Biz Stone Talks About Driving Revenue For Twitter

With Facebook talking about reaching their lofty revenue goals for 2009 you would have to suspect that Twitter has to address the issue as well. Bloomberg reports today that Twitter is planning to show revenue in 2009 from clients like Dell, Whole Foods and Starbucks.

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Google Launches All For Good

Google, Craigslist Foundation, YouTube, FanFeedr and UCLA have partnered to launch a new site called All for Good, which is designed to connect volunteers in their local communities with charitable organizations. All for Good helps people find ways to get involved in their community, from being a mentor to helping design a website for a nonprofit. The platform allows people to sign in to Facebook…

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Google Apps, Microsoft Live@edu Do Battle

Here's a simple fact: no matter what the industry, there are few things quite as nice as a lifelong customer.  Here's another: while attending college, students often establish patterns that they'll follow for the rest of their days.  Now, Microsoft and Google seem to be acknowledging both issues as they promote school-oriented software suites.

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