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The End of Facebook Commerce?

According to a recent Bloomberg article, leading US retailers including GameStop, Gap Inc., J.C. Penney and Nordstrom have all closed their Facebook shops over the past year. That prompted UK ecommerce expert, and founder of UK vendor, Seewhy.com, Charles Nicholls, in a post published on the company blog earlier this week, to say that this

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Melbourne IT claims to be handling 120+ applications for dot.brand

Melbourne IT chief executive – Theo Hanarakis

More than 120 mostly large, global multinationals have engaged ASX listed Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB) to help them get their own top-level domain (TLD). Melbourne IT’s chief executive officer, Theo Hnarakis, revealed the number when speaking to a corporate analysts and media briefing after the release of its

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New Global Top Level Domains off to slow start as Australian Fooball League joins applicants

With only a few weeks to go before the registrations deadline, ICANN (i.e the Internet Corporation on Assigned Names & Numbers) has revealed  100 applications to register new global Top Level Domains (gTLDs) have been successful so far. The number is something of a surprise. Promoters of the new domains, such as Adrian Kinderis, co-owner

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Woolworths unveils virtual shopping walls in Sydney, Melbourne

Woolies new shoppable wall

Woolworths has joined other Australian and international companies in trialling a concept wall enabling smartphone owners to buy goods via Quick Response codes. Sportsgirl recently transformed the front of its Melbourne headquarters into a virtual shopping wall, and Kikki.K has done a similar thing, with a giant QR code in

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Banks will have to report ATM, EFTPOS outages, says Reserve Bank

Continuing service disruptions in bank ATM, EFTPOS and Internet banking services have prompted the Reserve Bank of Australia to announce plans for a new reporting system. Banks will soon have to report to the RBA every time there is a ‘significant’ retail payments system outage. The move was announced in an RBA statement issued today,

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