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Yahoo Merchants - Abandon Ship

Top executives at Yahoo (NASDAQ YHOO) aren’t the only one who have abandoned ship. Over the past year, Yahoo Stores has lost over 30% of its merchant base and of those still around, many Yahoo merchants have seen sizable drops in sales beyond economical shifts.
So what’s next for Yahoo Stores? Rumor has it that Yahoo [...]

6Dec2008 | Riley Poole | 0 comments | Continued
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Google Checkout A Ghost Town

In line with our prediction that nearly 90% of the transaction activity decreased from Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Checkout from a holiday high a year ago, The Google Checkout Merchant Forum is proof positive that the program is all but dead.
As Google struggles on many fronts, including its ailing stock price, there are many causalities including [...]

10Feb2008 | Riley Poole | 14 comments | Continued
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Why Mobile Commerce May never be a Viable Business

New technologies will come and go, and while the first to market may not always succeed, those who follow will often learn from the original founders of such an industry and pick up those pieces and thrive. Take the case of Webvan, over a billion dollars spent and lost and yet today FreshDirect flourishes. It’s [...]

31Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 7 comments | Continued
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2007 Industry Failures and What WE Learned

You may not know this but the credit card industry is notorious for covering up its failures. While most experts will tell you that failure is important, as it teaches us what not to do and shows us how things can get done, the credit card industry is known for not learning from it’s mistakes. [...]

30Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 9 comments | Continued

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