More shoppers are flocking to the Web for the holidays, boosting online retail sales 12% over a year ago. In five weeks ending Dec. 3, Americans spent $17.5 billion on retail items on the Web, up from $15.7 billion in the year-…
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In the latest of many recent successful Chinese IPOs, E-Commerce China Dangdang — often called the Amazon of China — saw its shares soar in its New York Stock Exchange debut Wednesday.
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As it looks for ways to grow, Salesforce.com is targeting another big market: databases. Its new offering, Database.com, looks to be a direct threat to Oracle. Maybe its time for Oracle to finally get serious about cloud comput…
Winfrey has selected two Charles Dickens classics, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, which will be reissued together in one 800-page volume with the Oprah’s Book Club sticker from Penguin Classics. But readers can ge…