Recall Doesn’t Stall Online Demand For Toys

Non-travel retail sales for the third quarter of 2007 hit $28.4 billion, a 23 percent increase over the same period last year, with sales fueled by demand for video games and their related consoles and accessories.

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service

Josh Wexelbaum over at ScrappyBusiness Idea Blog mentioned this new service in a recent post “Amazon Mechanical Turk for Fun and Profit” and Internet Marketers can rejoice as some of their outsourcing woes are answered. Besides your finances, the other major constraint for any Internet marketer is time - there’re only 24 hours in a day.

Study Gives Insight Into Identity Theft

The Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) has released the first -ever study of closed United States Secret Service cases dealing with identity theft.

Could The Web Make People Nicer?

Do you ever think that the Web will evolve to reinforce what everybody used to be trained to have – you know, manners? Anonymous commentary's a bit of an exception (though commentators have been traced), but you never know – maybe all this transparency and instant communication will lead us into era where we watch our mouths better.

The Facebook Feeding Frenzy

More Investor Cash for Facebook... Yesterday we learned that Microsoft bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240 Million. Today there is another large investment - it’s been rumored that Facebook got an additional $500 million from two New York hedge funds.