Over 85 percent of the world’s online population has made an online purchase; representing an increase in online shopping of over 40 percent in the past two years.
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I first made mention of Bill Me Later back in 2004 …then promptly forgot about them. The company has been making great strides and it seems they now have the highest merchant adoption rates among alternative payment services.
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With so many big name companies offering oodles of what appears to be reliable online storage for nix or next to nothing - be it for email, photos, software etc.; it’s easy to be lulled into a false sense of security. 14,000 customers of a major ISP received a rude shock recently.
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The Digital Future Project surveys more than 2,000 US adults annually, contacting the same households to explore how the online affects the lives of Internet users and non-users. There’s some interesting statistics in this year’s survey in relation to ecommerce and dialup access.
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In-stream video advertising appears to be a tricky business according to some recent research from Burst Media.
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It’s Friday and time for a little fun with this interesting Flash game, sure to appeal to anyone who’s worked with developers and programmers.
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If you’ve been having trouble getting email through to Yahoo users recently; you might want to check Spamhaus to see if your mail server’s IP is listed as Yahoo is now using SpamHaus’s SBL to block connections from listed IP addresses.
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What is the price of success? Be it online or any career? What is success anyway? The tragic death of Australian born actor Heath Ledger brought these questions to mind today and how it relates to the online world.
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So states a recent report on email marketing - while advanced features such as segmentation and targeting have evolved to a point of being easily within the grasp of every email marketer, many missed the opportunity to involve subscribers with their brands and product offers this holiday season. That’s high falutin’ talk for attracting customers and selling stuff I believe :).
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The “r” word - recession - has been doing the rounds for a couple of weeks now. It appears it could be spooking some consumers and possibly impacting on ecommerce.
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