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eBay Contends That Sales Tax Proposal Will Hurt Small Businesses
EBay is against a bill that would require more online retailers, like Amazon, to pay local taxes.
Amazon’s Love Note to Senate Backs Sales-Tax Proposal
Amazon thanked the U.S. Senate today for a proposal that could put to rest the company’s long-standing sales-tax issues.
“App and Mortar” Is One Way to Describe the Trend in Mobile Commerce
A new report figures out who is benefiting right now from the mobile commerce trend. Surprisingly, it’s physical retailers.
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Just in Time for the Holidays, Facebook Pushes “Gifts” Hard With More Retail Partnerships
As I reported earlier that it would, Facebook announced a series of new retail partnerships at an event on Thursday evening, adding brands like the Gap, Fab and Dean & DeLuca to the list of choices from which Facebook users can buy one another using the company’s “Gifts” product. The partnership also adds a number of non-physical gifting options to Facebook’s roster, including subscriptions from Hulu, Rdio and Pandora.Dennis Crowley, Best Buy Spokesguy (Video)
Sort of like Zoolander! But with a Samsung.
Gap, H&M, Sephora and Others Unwrap New Social Gifting Service in the U.S.
More than 25 major retailers, including the Gap, H&M, Sephora, Brooklyn Industries and others, are working with a small Swedish company named Wrapp to roll-out a social gifting service in the U.S.
Another Science Start-Up, Wittlebee, Gets $2.5 Million in Funding for Kids’ Clothes Club
It’s kind of like a never-ending online Gap.
Visa is Coming to Mobile Next Week to be Everywhere You Want to Be
Visa is fulfilling its promise of being “everywhere you want to be,” beginning as soon as next week, when it plans to make an announcement regarding its mobile payments strategy.
Gap Partners With Visa to Send Location-Based Offers to Your Phone
Here’s another variation on the idea that we will one day get offers sent to us on our phones when we are in the vicinity of a retail store. This time it’s from Visa. And, this time, it requires no application download and very little user engagement.
Yahoo's Ad Talent Loss Is Groupon's Gain: Lee Brown Will Be Social Buying Phenom's Head of National Sales
Lee Brown, who heads up Yahoo’s advertising efforts in its key New York region, is taking a post at Groupon as an SVP, focused on national accounts such as Gap and others that the start-up has recently begun targeting. Groupon, which has been around only since 2008, has built a giant business in a short time by linking customers with mostly local merchants via daily discounted deals.