Choosing the right Yahoo! Store development agency isn’t a simple matter of  pushing a shopping cart through the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Developer Network aisles, leaning into the refrigerated racks of choice-picked goods and squeeze testing five or six for freshness. The Yahoo! Store developer shopping process needs to start with an understanding of what’s beneath
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The Wall Street Journal Reported on September 7, 2011 that Chinese Regulators Renew Key License for Google. What this means for Google is another year of doing business legally, albeit via a Chinese partner, since China doesn’t grant business licenses directly to foreign companies in China–according to this ZDNet article. But after all the jousting
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Remember that old adage, “why buy the cow, if you can get the milk for free?” Well, as the country lurches further into an economic quagmire, the government in many states is suggesting that ecommerce  and state sales tax would make a nice match.  It’s been a free ride for too long, and now state
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As evidenced by the narrative and following examples in this The Atlantic article, Why Good Advertising Works (Even When You Think It Doesn’t), advertising almost never yields results immediately. People just don’t like to be sold, or the idea that they can be sold. Good advertising takes years of coddling, coaxing, nourishing, and patience before
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The thermometer is still red up to the eyes in summer, and black cats and vampire teeth aren’t even on the shelves yet. But it’s not Halloween or even Thanksgiving shopping sprees that bring in the year end cash either. The mother load comes from Christmas shoppers, and even with the economy in the mop
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In this 8/24/11 WSJ article, “Groupon Stumbles in China, Closes Some Offices,” reporter Loretta Chao sums it all up in the first paragraph: “Groupon Inc.’s joint venture in China has closed offices in some cities and laid off hundreds of employees, according to people familiar with the situation, raising questions about the online coupon company’s
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FastPivot’s Yahoo! Store developers recently launched MaineCottage.com’s new Yahoo! Store. In addition to programming a world class Yahoo! Store, FastPivot’s Yahoo! Store developers were also responsible for installing an advanced, top of the line, Adobe Scene 7 configurator. This product color scheme selection and zoom configurator is the Lamborghini of configurators–It’s not cheap, and very
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Earlier this week, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake gave U.S. east coasters a little shake (A few of us at the Fastpivot headquarters in Asheville NC even felt tremors hundreds of miles from the epicenter). It’s always good to have harmless reminders like this to help us remember the importance of good infrastructure. The same is
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