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Frugal Is the New Black

Lovely little piece by Joshua Palau on how evidence of the new frugality is cropping-up in search behavior. While e-commerce shoppers tend to display greater price sensitivity than their brick-and-retail brethren, their ranks have swelled over the past year thanks to the failing economy.

Palau’s advice to businesses: adapt or die.

We’ve already seen that [...]

How Do You Solve A Problem Like eBay?

Daily Finance writer Anthony Massucci has written a wonderful piece describing the challenges faced by eBay, which commanded an enormous share of the online marketplace ten years ago but has seen its fortunes decline ever since.

There’s a lot to summarize here, but I found the following section regarding the failures of eBay’s online [...]

Newegg Files For IPO

In a further sign that the IPO markets are heating up again, City of Industry-based Newegg is taking advantage of the recovering economy and planning to go public.

Google Takes On Twitter With Hot Trends Integration

Google continues to launch skirmishes against anyone who would carve-out a piece of the Interwebs for itself. The latest target: Twitter.

The Divine Touch

A new Harris survey shows that the ability to talk to a human being still matters to consumers, particularly those who are searching for real estate and automobiles.