While PayPal has been less and less relevant, thanks to competitors like Google Checkout and Amazon, they may just stage a comeback with an idea that’s cute and useful at the same time: a bump-triggered iPhone app, reports Fast Company. Bump Technologies, the company that makes the Bump iPhone app, provided the underlying tech for […]
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Back-to-back snowstorms on the East Coast have brought a blizzard of sales of shovels, groceries and booze. For airlines and department stores, the region’s wintry weather has resulted in millions of dollars of lost revenue, according to a story in The Associated Press. As businesses tallied up the impact of the second major snowstorm in
A young boy is sitting behind a lemonade stand. A man is a tie is standing in front of the stand with his hands in his pockets. Kid: “Hey mister, can I he-” Man: “REALLY. I’m just looking.” The man continues to just stand there. Man: “Dammit, though, ya know? You salesmen… just back off
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Comscore has reported that holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 48 days of the November/December 2009 holiday season to date has reach $24.8 billion — a four percent increase versus the same time last year, according to a story in Website magazine. The most recent week began on a slightly disappointing note, with
For almost a decade, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been boasting that it will dominate Internet retailing the way it dominates strip malls, toppling Amazon.com Inc. as the world’s largest online merchant, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. This holiday shopping season, Wal-Mart has started aiming at what it sees as Amazon’s Achilles’
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Surrounded by shelves stocked with 180 different wooden train cars, Sandy Oliver boxes orders at Whittle Shortline Railroad in New London, Mo. (pop. 1,001). Then she stops and picks up a bright blue replica of The Little Engine That Could, reports American Profile. This is my favorite. I think it has personality,” says Oliver about
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photo credit: striatic Many people are struggling this year due to the recession, most of which are planning on spending a lot less this holiday season then they have in the past, and most of them are also putting off their holiday shopping for as long as they can in hopes of save up a
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KFC, the erstwhile Kentucky Fried Chicken, has introduced a special meal promotion with a novel pricing twist: It costs 1 cent a calorie, reports WalletPop. The 395-calorie Kentucky Grilled Chicken meal comes with a drumstick and thigh, green beans, mashed potatoes, and gravy. For that square meal, customers pay $3.95. KFC might also have just
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Shoppers logged on to e-commerce sites in droves yesterday, spending at a pace that probably set a single day record. The Wall Street Journal cites a comScore report that estimates that online retail sales grew by 6 percent compared with last year, to $900 million. But just as shoppers on Black Friday were spending less
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photo credit: wili_hybrid Over the past few years, we have heard many small business owners talk about their need for small business loans. These are loans that they need in order to obtain credit, get out of debt, buy new equipment, new marketing and advertising and more. However, the problem that most small business owners
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