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- MyWebGrocer to provide free product images to grocery clients
MyWebGrocer partnered with digital-image provider ItemMaster to provide free product images to the company's retail clients, shifting the cost of acquiring the images from the retailers to the manufacturers. Grocers including Giant Food, Peapod and Stop & Shop can use the photos in their circulars, websites and mobile apps. InternetRetailer.com (1/18)        | Facebook eCommerce Success: 3 Best Practices
Getting the most from Facebook investments continues to be a leading business concern. Learn how and why a combination of tools — both on-site and off — achieves the greatest impact and optimal user experience. Click here to download the free whitepaper | - Fashion houses use Twitter to revitalize business
Milan's menswear week sparked constant tweeting from fashion media and design houses including Dolce & Gabbana and Versace. Designers are finding success with the brief messages that let them talk up their latest styles to fans months before the new looks hit retail stores. Reuters (1/18) - Report: Online retail in China rose 22% last year
 Lower prices and increased confidence in security and product quality spurred China's consumers to boost their online shopping last year, according to a new report from the China e-Business Research Center. China's consumers and businesses spent $684 billion on online shopping in 2010, a 22% increase from the year before. Google/Agence France-Presse (1/18) - Losses from online fraud fell in N. America last year
Losses from online fraud in North America fell last year to about $2.7 billion, from $3.3 billion in 2009, as merchants grew more aggressive in rejecting suspicious orders, according to a report from CyberSource. U.K. online fraud rose last year, due in large part to criminals moving their operations from countries where online retailers have more-effective prevention methods. InternetRetailer.com (1/18)  | Each year U.S businesses spend trillions of dollars on goods and services. Focus Research empowers buyers to spend their budget wisely by offering easily accessible and trustworthy information on vendors that support small and mid-size business operations. Download this free whitepaper that compares leading CRM vendors to ensure you choose what's best for your organization. |
 | New Media & Technology |  | | | - Report: Mobile app market to hit $25 billion worldwide by 2015
Advancements in network technologies, lower mobile data plan costs and growing global adoption of smartphones are behind the rapid growth of mobile app development, a market that's slated to more than triple during the next half decade, according to a report from MarketsandMarkets. TechCrunch (1/18)  | Companies in the News | | | | - Starbucks customers can pay with a swipe of their smartphones
Starbucks is launching a system this week that allows customers to pay for their orders by swiping their BlackBerrys, iPhones or iPod Touches in front of scanners in all 6,800 of the chain's U.S. stores and its 1,000 Target locations. Users need to download an app to access the system, which deducts the amount of the tab from their Starbucks accounts. NYTimes.com/Bits blog (1/18) - Yahoo! to open its site to Facebook and Google users
Yahoo! plans to allow consumers to enter its website using their Facebook and Google user IDs, in an effort to remain a relevant destination as online users migrate to social sites. Facebook, Microsoft and Google all surpass Yahoo! in the number of monthly visitors, and Yahoo! visitors are spending less time on the site than they used to. Total Telecom Magazine (U.K.) (1/18)
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| Shop.org Spotlight | | | | - Cynthia Rowley, ideeli execs define the "luxury newcomer"
Since Q2 of 2009, luxury fashion spending has outpaced overall fashion spending in the U.S., according to a luxury panel at Retail's BIG Show. So who exactly are these retail luxury newcomers? In a recent post on Retail's BIG Blog, executives from Cynthia Rowley and ideeli detail who this new shopper is and how they shop. Read more. - Shop.org SmartStat: Jan. 19, 2011
 More than a quarter of adults ages 18 to 34 anticipated using blogs as a trusted source of information for their holiday shopping. Source: Shop.org's 2010 eHoliday survey.
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