FastPivot’s team members had a chance to take a paid day off this past Monday to volunteer in honor of Martin Luther King Day, and check out the good many of them did in their communities: Jennifer Boos, Project Manager: Volunteered with the Bent Creek Community Trail Improvement Project (Trash Cleanup) Her story: Living in
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Google Goes Black to Protest Sopa and Pipa; What Are You Doing?
Go to Google.com today and instead of seeing the familiar “Google” type in the middle of the page, you’ll see Google has a large obstructing black rectangle over it’s name. For Google, going “black” is to protest the #Pipa and #Sopa bills going through congress right now. They both could inflict serious blows to internet
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Zappos Hack Reminder No Ecommerce 100% Safe
The NYTimes reported today that the famous and trusted shoe (and clothing) company, Zappos, was hacked, with 24 million customer accounts were exposed to potential identity theft, etc. This is another classic example of how hackers can strike an online company no matter how much security they purport to have in place, or how trusted
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How Google Updates Are Destroying Some Yahoo! Internet Retailers
By Jonathan Poston Manning the incoming calls of an ecommerce company isn’t as boring as it might sound. Sure, there are a billion technical questions that must be answered, but there’s the counseling part of it too. Yes, you heard right. Counseling. Merchants ring in distraught, desperate for a solution to looming calamity, but in
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Great "Meeting" Try Chips in Asheville!
Above is the photo Try Chips’s Tim (Founder) and Jackie (CEO) Schlitzer posted on Facebook after their tour stopped through Asheville to visit the FastPivot.com team in person (in 2011 FastPivot brought Try Chips’s store live on the Yahoo! platform). In the above photo, we have Tim and Jackie from Try Chips with a few
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Will Scott Thompson's New Leadership Affect Yahoo! Store Merchants?
By Jonathan Poston Today’s Bloomberg article,”Yahoo! Names PayPal’s Scott Thompson New CEO : Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the Internet company exploring strategic options,” is a nice warm welcome to Mr. Thompson as chief executive officer of the company. But, Mr. Thompson, who is coming to Yahoo! as an exiting president of EBay Inc., has a tough
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I'm a Social Media Expert, Why Isn't Anyone Paying Attention to What I Say on Twitter?
Ever feel like you’re just not being heard out there; like it’s just you and your smart phone Twittering in deep space? You can see the stream coming in, but the ones you’re following could just as easily be asteroids passing by than real people. It’s an interesting exercise in observation to behold the beginning
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With China's Dangdang.com Hacked, How Safe Is Yahoo! ?
In the increasingly active world of internet hackers, no website or platform is off-limits. The hacker profile doesn’t seem to be well-defined enough for international authorities to put an end to mischief, and to make matters worse some groups are compelled to hack sites for a wide array of reasons; political protest, profit, and curiously
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Hybrid Advanced Search Feature Developed for Pink Bra's Yahoo! Store
Ladies can attest: the right bra is hard to find, and that’s under optimal circumstances. Leaving customers to sort through a room full of inventory is worse than giving them a desk sized box full of red buttons, dropping a similarly sized pink one in, stirring it around and saying you have only minutes to
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Yahoo! Store Development For Merchants Who Already Have a Store Design
Fledgeling merchants generally wet-land into the Yahoo! Store world thinking a) it will be everything they hoped (which inevitably it isn’t without custom handling), and then b) that every development agency takes a Swiss Army knife approach to MacGyvering them in and out of wet and crusty quicksand pits. Both of these assumptions are quickly
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