If there was one common thread among the four shops visited during the first day of the Chicago Dealer Tour, it's that the retail business here is a family affair. Several stores we toured are in their second, third or fourth generation of ...
DownEast Basics, an apparel firm that offers classic styles and affordable fashion for women and girls has been nominated as a top 40 Innovator for 2013. This fast growing fashion firm sells online and via 52 regional stores across the ...
Google plans to offer a video subscription service on YouTube, which according to a newspaper report, the company may announce this week. YouTube is "looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content ...
Google has started rolling out a new feature in Gmail that lets users create Google Calendar entries from their email messages. Gmail now detects dates and times in the text of email messages and highlights them. Users can click on the ...
Motorola Mobility abuses its dominant position in the E.U. by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany on the basis of its mobile phone standard-essential patents (SEPs), the European Commission said in a preliminary ...
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The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online. The Senate's vote of 69-27 for the Marketplace Fairness Act late Monday sends the bill to the ...
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As you pore over the technical features built into Ford's latest vehicles, one spec you'll notice in those that include a SYNC entertainment system is the 10GB hard drive for storing music. No, they didn't drop a zero. That's a 10. Ford ...
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Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radically improve" the photo-sharing site's app and attract new users, the company said in a ...
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As developers create tiny computer devices like smartwatches, one question they face is how to make tiny keyboards usable. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they have a solution to that problem. They have developed what's ...
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This week was a week for email milestones.?Spam – that scourge of the Internet – turned 35 years old. And Microsoft pulled the plug on its hoary webmail service Hotmail. The first spam message sent on?what was to become the ...
Many tech companies have called for Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration because they can't find qualified tech workers to fill open positions. Yet, many veteran IT tech workers say they can't find jobs. More than a ...
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Dell is investigating a report that a Middle East reseller has sold large numbers of computers to a Syrian company with ties to the embattled government there, in violation of U.S. export restrictions. Despite U.S. trade sanctions against ...
Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn. Microsoft recently implemented a feature in Office 365 called Connect ...
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Google's move this week to make it easier for Chrome browser users to find "packaged apps," Chrome OS's souped-up Web apps, is part of its strategy to turn any Internet-capable device into a Chromebook wannabe loyal to the company's ...
Chinese telecom equipment and network solution provider Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. will not debut on the stock market within five to ten years. The Shenzhen-based firm was brought under the limelight owning to problems regarding to ...
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