Canadian and American Tour

Last Updated on Friday, 28 October 2011 03:24 Written by a2e Friday, 28 October 2011 03:24

I had an absolutely wonderful time at Bagham Barn yesterday. I talked to so many people, and signed so many books! All in all, a perfect Miller’s event. The Barn itself is a beautiful and very interesting place that I very much recommend you visit if you’re in the area.
Across the other side of the Atlantic there are some other places you might want to visit. Yes, it’s time for my annual Canadian and American tour!
I fly out to Toronto this Saturday. I won’t see the Telegraph booklets in all their glory, but we’ve worked so much on them over the past few weeks t … Read this full article on the Miller’s Blog.
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Civil suit charges Overstock with misrepresenting prices

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 November 2010 06:29 Written by a2e Saturday, 20 November 2010 06:29

A civil lawsuit filed in Superior Court of California in Alameda County yesterday charges Overstock.com Inc.28Overstock.com Inc.Mass MerchantOnline Sales:$876,769,000 Growth:5.7% See More with making “untrue and misleading” claims about its prices. The suit, which was filed by seven Northern California district attorneys, alleges that Overstock’s comparison prices, which the web retailer uses as a basis for setting discounts, are consistently inaccurate.

The suit states that since January 1, 2006, “Overstock routinely and systematically made untrue and misleading comparative advertising claims about the prices of its products.” The complaint charges that prices presented under the labels “List Price” and “Compare At (Overstock) Price” were not prevailing market prices and that Overstock “used various misleading measures to inflate the comparative prices, and thus artificially increase the discounts it claimed to be offering customers.”



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Online obstacles to the single market

Last Updated on Friday, 29 October 2010 04:20 Written by External Post Friday, 29 October 2010 04:20

THIS week’s Charlemagne column is now live. It deals with the difficulties of internet trading, illustrating many of the remaining obstacles in Europe’s single market. Michel Barnier, the commissioner for the single market, yesterday issued 50 proposals
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Sprint adds AOL, UPS as Sprint ID partners

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 October 2010 11:42 Written by External Post Thursday, 28 October 2010 11:42

We’re keeping our eyes on Sprint ID, which is why our ears pricked when we heard that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced more partners yesterday at a developer’s conference in Santa Clara, Calif. They include AOL, UPS, Canvas, IHG, and BodyMedia, as well as
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Google: Android was our best acquisition ever

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 October 2010 11:42 Written by External Post Thursday, 28 October 2010 11:42

Out of all of Google’s acquisitions, the company’s acquisition of the maker of the Android mobile operating system was its “best deal ever,” a company executive said at an industry conference yesterday. Speaking at the Stanford Accel Symposium yesterday,
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Yahoo taps former News Corp. exec Ross Levinsohn

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 October 2010 08:40 Written by External Post Thursday, 28 October 2010 08:40

Ross Levinsohn (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) Yahoo has hired former president Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo company announced yesterday. Starting in November, Levinsohn will become Yahoo’s executive vice president of the Americas. In his new role, Levinsohn will
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CBS, NBC back on GoogleTV?

Last Updated on Friday, 22 October 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Friday, 22 October 2010 07:00

It appears that the networks are letting some content through to GoogleTV users. Yesterday, GoogleTV users were greeted with messages that ABC, CBS and NBC would not work.  This morning however, I had a look around and was able to watch an episode of 30
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Facebook, chums splash cash at social network wannabes

Last Updated on Friday, 22 October 2010 03:40 Written by External Post Friday, 22 October 2010 03:40

Facebook, Zynga and Amazon.com formed a pact with venture capital outfit Kleiner Perkins and a brace of media outlets yesterday, in a $250m effort to fund social media startups. The group, which also includes Comcast, Liberty Media and investment bank
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Google releases stable version of Chrome 7

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 05:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 20 October 2010 05:00

Google pushed version seven of its Chrome browser into the company’s stable channel of releases yesterday, which means features tested in beta and developer builds are now available to the masses. A number of nasty security bugs have been fixed in
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Google pumps existing drag-and-drop tech into Docs

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 02:22 Written by External Post Wednesday, 20 October 2010 02:22

Google couldn’t resist touting a new, minor feature in its Docs product yesterday, which just so happened to be the same day Microsoft announced its Office 365 product. Mountain View probably isn’t overly worried about Redmond’s decision to bundle
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