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109 Articles match "Commerce"
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
City of Industry-based e-commerce retailer NewEgg is at the center of a fake processor scandal which cropped up over the last week, as the firm apparently shipped counterfeit parts claiming to be Intel Core i7 920 microprocessors. Apparently, the firm unknowingly shipped fake Intel CPUs, between March 1st and March 4th, to a number of its customers. Newegg apologized to its customers, and said that customers who purchased the items that they would either be provided a full refund on their purchases, or could request a replacement of those items with the appropriate parts.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Should brands offer e-commerce through apps? Presenter: Ian Wolfman, CMO, imc² 3:00pm: The Mobile Commerce Experiment: There is a slew of mobile commerce experimentation starting to pop up on mobile networks and devices. From Pizza Hut's mobile app which allows consumers to place pizza orders to P&G's microsite which allows customers to purchase products through the Drugstore.com mobile site, branded direct response campaigns seem to be picking up steam fueled by mobile commerce applications. TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. Discover
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
The e-commerce retailer said it saw 146 percent, year-over-year sales growth from its marketplace, which lists products from third party retailers. Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com said Thursday that the firm is seeing what it calls "exponential" year-over-year growth in its retail marketplace. Buy.com said 46 percent of its orders in Q4, and more than 50 percent of its Q1 2010 site orders came from the Buy.com Marketplace, and that the sales were behind its strong Q4 2009.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Building an E-commerce Business”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about the strategies, tactics, and challenges of building and growing online properties through E-commerce.
We are joined this month by Wil Schroter the former CEO of SwapaLease and founder of the GoBig Network .
These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media .
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
San Diego-based Qualcomm announced this morning that it has named Rocco Fabiano as new head of its mobile commerce subsidiary, Firethorn Holdings LLC . Tags: qualcomm firethorn mobile commerce executiv Qualcomm said that Fabiano will act as President of Firethorn, heading up strategic direction and market expansion for the unit. Qualcomm said that Fabiano has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, including overseeing a private label credit card business, a retail bank, and for Household International.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
The latest retail e-commerce numbers from comScore came out today, with the measurement firm saying that U.S. comScore said this is the first time on record that there has been consecutive quarters of negative e-commerce spending growth from the prior year. Last quarter, e-commerce sales were down 1% from prior year numbers.
...Tags: online retail spending was down 2 percent, to $29.6 billion, from the same quarter a year ago.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a developer of e-commerce software headed by Dan Engel, said today that it has released a new product which handles mail-in-rebates for online vendors. Tags: fastspring software commerce rebate The firm said it will allow stores to offer mail-in rebates on their products, as well as related options such as instead offering consumers discounts on other products. FastSpring is the latest venture of Dan Engel, who has previously been at Google, Picasa, and GoToMyPC.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 -- Building an E-commerce Business. This month's "Startups Uncensored" will be on "Building an E-commerce Business". It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about the strategies, tactics, and challenges of building and growing online properties through E-commerce. Startups Uncensored. We are joined this month by Wil Schroter the former CEO of SwapaLease and founder of the GoBig Network.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 -- E-Commerce on a Shoestring. In the past, if you wanted to set up an e-commerce site you had to be a computer geek--or have enough money to hire one. This presentation shows you how to quickly set up a simple e-commerce site in today's economy, without needing to be a technical guru. Softec. There are plenty of free tools out on the Internet, along with some hot trends you can use to attract buyers.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
City of Industry-based NewEgg , the Los Angeles area e-commerce firm, told its users today that it has added a new, same-day shipping option for customers who live near its three main distribution centers. Tags: newegg ecommerce electronics shipping commerce shi According to NewEgg, the new service -- Newegg Local Express Delivery -- will allow users to receive eligible, in-stock items the same day they are ordered. The firm told users with specific zip codes near its California, Tennessee, and New Jersey locations that they can use the new service immediately.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tags: newegg ecommerce retail office supplies paper commerc City of Industry-based Newegg.com is officially expanding its online store into office supplies, the firm said yesterday afternoon. The firm said the new site is focused on consumers and small business owners. NewEgg explained that the store will offer everything from furniture to printer ink, toner, electronics, and paper products.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Tags: vizio hdtv black friday retail commerce electronic Irvine-based HDTV maker VIZIO reported Tuesday that it sold over 280,000 of its HDTVs on Black Friday, or 40 percent more over its sales in 2008. The firm attributed the boost in sales to its wide product range of HDTVs, as well as retail partners such as Costco Wholesale, Sam's Club, Walmart, Target, and others. Vizio is
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
A new report released this morning find that retail e-commerce sales dropped in Q4 by 3 percent, as the dismal economy began to affect the online retail sector. According to comScore, which tracks e-commerce spending, Q4 of 2008 was the first quarter of negative growth since it started tracking spending in 2001. Among the winners in e-commerce for 2007: video games, consoles, and accessories, which saw increases of The drop follows double digit gains throughout 2007 and the first half of 2008 in year-to-year ecommerce sales. On the losing end were computer software, which
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