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Record Online Shopping Brings New Meaning to “Holiday Stress”

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 22, 2011 at 4:33 pm PT

No big disasters have been reported yet this holiday, but there are signs that record-breaking online sales are starting to take their toll on retailers and shippers.

IPad Bandit Terrorizes Gotham!

Peter Kafka in Media on June 21, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

Or at least, the UPS guys delivering to Apple’s Upper West Side store.

UPS Offers Web-Print Service

Mike Esterl, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 14, 2009 at 1:11 pm PT

After decades of wrestling for dominance in the U.S. shipping industry, United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. are squaring off on another front: the growing world of online printing. UPS is rolling out marketing Monday to highlight a push into Web-based printing, in which clients can send documents such as business presentations to UPS retail stores via the Internet to have printed copies made. FedEx already offers online printing at its FedEx Office/Kinko’s locations.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Bing!

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 8:10 am PT

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the software giant’s relaunch of its search offering, dubbed Bing, onstage at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference. Bing is Microsoft’s biggest and priciest attempt yet to catch archrival Google and Yahoo in the search business. It is a market where the typically dominant Microsoft is a mouse in comparison. But, no surprise, that did not stop Ballmer from doing some roaring about Bing.