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The usual and customary reaction to missing earnings predictions got under way after Google's reported 11 cents less than what analysts expected.…
Online retailers cannot risk raising shipping prices. The sluggish economy combined with high fuel prices are hurting Americans financially but Amazon.com and other online retailers are unlikely to increase shipping costs out of fear of losing customers.Contracts with shippers may protect Amazon and some others as companies look for ways to cut costs. Companies such as Amazon and Overstock depend on low or free shipping…
This is an event I’ve been looking forward to for quite a while - WordCamp UK 2008, the first WordCamp in the UK, takes places in Birmingham during this weekend July 19-20.
Rumors had floated for weeks Google was negotiating to buy Digg.com for purposes of enhancing Google News. But it looks like Google is already integrating Digg-like features in a surprisingly open round of testing in the search results. With Google's slate of engineers, one wonders why they would buy a site if they could replicate the same idea. Imagine results created by users voting them…
Walk Score, a site that ranks the walkability of 2,508 neighborhoods in the 40 largest cities in the U.S., has released its rankings of the top most walkable cities.Walk Score says the most walkable city in America is San Francisco, scoring an 86 out of a possible 100. Other cities topping the list include New York City with a score of 83 and Boston with…
eBay's second-quarter earning report was respectable, all in all, with increases occurring in most measurable categories. Many of those increases didn't meet investors' expectations, though, and the company seems to have adopted a cautious outlook for the future.
