TechCrunch (Friday)
There is no doubt that mobile commerce is heating up. The market is expected to be a multi-billion dollar sector in 2011 and eBay, Amazon and many other online retailers are launching designated apps for smartphone platforms. Zappos has furthered its foot...

Techdirt (Wednesday)
A few years ago, when I was in Toronto, I remember being shocked when a friend there told me how difficult it was to get any sort of serious e-commerce there. Because of problems with customs and other issues, many of the big e-commerce players wouldn't s...

Silicon Alley Insider (Wednesday)

Google's motto may be "do no evil," but that hasn't fooled an organization that rates the most ethical companies in the world.

This year, the Ethisphere Institute named Microsoft to its list of its 110 most ethical companies in the world, ...

Techmeme (Thursday)

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Need Advice on What to Read?  Ask the Internet  —  Netflix uses a software algorithm to recommend movies and Zappos uses one to recommend shoes.  Now Goodreads, the social network for book lovers...

Venturebeat (Wednesday)

Fusion-io, a maker of super-fast flash memory modules, announced today that it has filed for an initial public offering. The company’s memory modules are becoming more and more important to the creation of faster and more power-efficient servers i...

Silicon Alley Insider (Wednesday)

Amazon is threatening to cut off affiliates in California over moves by the state government to impose sales tax.

The sales tax issue with online retailers is a big one: affiliates are supposed to report and pay sales tax, but since that's...