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Harvey Norman opens online store, but with a twist

Australia’s best known online shopping sceptic – Gerry Harvey – is now an online retailer himself.  His online store at www.harveynorman.com.au went live today,  after months of speculation and promises. But the site includes some unusual terms and conditions, which buyers would do well to examine. It seems that customers buying goods from the site

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iProperty.com looking good in fast-growing Asian markets

Shaun Di Gregorio, iProperty Group chief executive

Simon Baker, Shaun Di Gregorio and Georg Chmiel were, up until 2008/9, the three key executives at the REA Group and realestate.com.au, and are, arguably the men responsible for much of REA’s stellar record of growth and success.  For around 8 years, from 2001 onwards, Baker was

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Netsuite’s cloud based e-commerce solution gets new Australian partners

“Its expensive and the ecommerce and webstore components are one of its weakest points, but overall its fantastic.” Belinda Geissler from www.vetnpetdirect.com.au  is clearly a fan of the cloud-based US company, NetSuite. Her online business became a NetSuite user back in 2009, using it to replace a variety of products including the MYOB accounting package,

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Telstra warns Sensis on the skids; revenue to fall nearly 20% this year

Telstra’s directories subsidiary, Sensis, appears to be rapidly losing hold of a market it has long dominated on the back of its Yellow Pages monopoly.  Chief Executive Officer David Thodey told its annual institutional investor briefing that Sensis revenues could fall nearly 20% this year. Telstra’s overall revenues aren’t expected to be affected, because of

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More than 1.3million Australians now M-commerce shoppers

New data from eBay suggests that more than 1.3million Australians have adopted M-commerce (m-commerce) and are shopping using their smart-phone. Moreover if shopping is defined as looking around, and researching before buying, then the Australian m-commerce user population swells to more than 4 million. Indeed, Australians have become so m-commerce savvy that one even used

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