Effective Ways to Manage Your Business’s Online Reputation
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56 Percent of Top Retail Searches Now Come from Mobile, Report Says
If you’re trying to reach retail customers, mobile marketing had better be part of your strategy. That’s according to a new study by Hitwise, an eCommerce and consumer analytics company. The study (PDF) found that 56 percent of visitors to the Hitwise Retail 500, a...
Lower cost models emerge to compete with payday lenders
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Stolen games and more returned to boy
DELAND, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A six-year-old boy has his PlayStation games back after deputies tracked the items as well as the alleged thief. Nichole Ashley was stunned when she realized someone stole all of her son's PlayStation 4 games. Little Jordan had more than a...
Amazon, Shopify Q2 Results Speak Volumes About eCommerce Future
You know the eCommerce industry is on a roll when two market leaders post better than expected results. In the second quarter of 2016, Amazon and Shopify beat analyst expectations to report impressive growth. And the success of these companies, though quite distinct...
Gold Prices Climb Up as Fed Rate Hike Expectations Recede on Soft Global Economic Data
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10 most amazing things pawned at Glasgow’s oldest pawn shop
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11 Best Productivity Tips for Working From Home
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Strong U.S. employment report brightens economic outlook
U.S. employment rose more than expected for the second month in a row in July and wages picked up, bolstering expectations of faster economic growth, and raising the probability of a Federal Reserve interest rate increase this year.
7 Reasons the Best Employees Quit, Even When They Like Their Job
Losing a great employee is a terrible thing. There's the expense of finding, onboarding, and training a replacement. There's the uncertainty of how a new employee will work out. There's the hardship on the rest of your staff until the position can be filled.
When Building Your Team, Don’t Focus on Superstars
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One of the oldest rules about passwords is totally wrong
Your school or workplace may require you to change your password every couple months or so to keep your account safe. It's a widely-implemented security recommendation. Except it's totally wrong. The Federal Trade Commission's chief technologist, Lorrie Cranor, busted...
eBay to Ban Active Content, Your Questions Please
eBay has been warning sellers about its upcoming ban on active content that it announced 4 months ago, and we are getting questions from readers about what it means and how it will impact them.
Gold prices Spike Higher after Bank of England Rate Cut
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Fed Up Merchants File Lawsuits Over EMV Credit Card Chargebacks
When the EMV card liability shift happened in October 2015, the situation seemed to be fairly straightforward: If a merchant wanted to avoid new rules transferring liability for stolen or counterfeit cards to them, they needed to accept the more secure types of...
Are these the 10 qualities you need to be successful?
It’s unfashionable to ascribe success to talent. Hard work is a much more acceptable explanation in a meritocratic society. The truth, of course, is that some measure of both is required to achieve excellence. On its own, Edison’s 99% perspiration would have produced...
10 Reasons Small Companies Fail
No small company wants to go out of business, yet many do. And the younger the company, the greater the likelihood that it will.
Here’s another reminder that Amazon is crushing Microsoft and Google in the cloud
Despite rising competition from Microsoft's Azure and Google's cloud service, Amazon Web Services still reigns supreme in the cloud computing industry.