Microsoft’s Bing search engine is trying desperately to keep up with Google and its approximate 70% of the US search market. Bing recently added links to Facebook and Twitter from search results with the hope that these Social Media links will impact search traffic. Since Microsoft does not have its…
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President Obama privately met to discuss eCommerce, entrepreneurship, job creation, the economy with Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Eric Schmidt (Google), Steve Jobs (Apple), Carol Bartz (Yahoo), Dick Costolo (Twitter), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Larry Elison (Oracle), John Chambers (Cisco), among others unidentified. IDG reported that role of Social Media in recent protests across Egypt…
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After devoting my February column in eCommerceTimes to Internet sales tax issues there was an interesting turn of events over the dispute between Amazon.com and the Texas Comptroller over a $269 million Internet sales tax bill. Amazon.com announced it was shutting down its Texas operations on April 12…
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GUEST BLOG FROM BARRY BARNETT
I welcome Barry Barnett as a Guest Blogger with his blog concerning a law firm that fell for a email that sounded too good to be true and which was really Phishing. Barry’s Blawgletter provides great thoughts, and insights. I read his blogs regularly. Over…
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Wikipedia turned 10 years old in January 2011 with more than 3.5 million English articles and in more than 250 languages, but only about 15% of the articles have been posted by women. Actually based on a joint study in 2010 of Wikipedia of the contributor base by the United…
