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…
LinkedIn now has 90 million users and the IPO information about the Social Media site is most interesting, including revenue over $161 million for the first 9 months of 2010 which was twice the total revenue for 2009. The current estimated IPO value of $2.51 billion is pretty astonishing with…
Apple claims 160 million iPhone, iPod, and iPad users world-wide and given the popularity of Apple apps- it’s no surprise at Apple’s announcement of 10 billion apps downloaded. The 10 billion apps comes on the heels of Steve Jobs’ announcement of his departure for medical leave, once again. Which is not…
Amazon filed a lawsuit in Texas state court as part of its challenge of a $269 million claim for uncollected Internet sales taxes dating back to 2005 when Amazon opened operations in Texas. In September 2010 the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts demanded the $269 million of Internet sales taxes…
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While a Michigan couple was married the husband and wife shared a computer and the husband had access to his wife’s email password…. but according to the Detroit Free Press he ex-husband has now been charged with a felony for looking at his ex-wife’s emails.
Should it be a crime…
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The Department of Interior (DOI) was enjoined from awarding Microsoft a contract to provide a Cloud email service following Google’s bid protest. US Judge Susan Braden issued a temporary injunction because the DOI failed to comply with federal procurement laws. Google and Microsoft both offer Cloud email services, but apparently…
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All indicators were headed to this new headline that as 2010 ends Facebook overtook Google as the most popular Internet site. Experian Hitwise reported that “8.9 percent of unique online visits were to Facebook this year, compared with Google’s 7.2 percent,” and ComScore estimates that Facebook would “surpass Google…
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