Build Your own Facebook Store

Shopping search engine Sortprice.com expanded its merchant store application on the Facebook Platform to help retailers expand their e-commerce capabilities that can be used by the social network’s audience.

LG catching up fast in GSM market

Korean Mobile Handset Maker To Double Investment For Better Visibility

Mobile Micropayments Roll Out In Shanghai.

According to China Mobile’s Shanghai branch, its regulations related to micropayments made with mobile phones have been completed and consumers in Shanghai will soon be able to pay with mobile phones in McDonald’s and Starbucks.

Orange shop-in-shop heading for HMV stores.

Orange and HMV are teaming up to promote Orange products and services via store-in-store units in HMV stores.

FreshDirect Will Limit Idling Time for Trucks.

FreshDirect, which uses 150 diesel-powered trucks to deliver groceries that customers order over the Internet, is outfitting its fleet with shutoff systems that will keep the trucks from idling longer than permitted by city law.

Grabbit Gets Bigger, Brings in M-payments.

Grabbit has tied up with Atom Technologies for a mobile payments platform.

Wireless Carriers: Your New PC Retailer?

With the market for cell-phone service saturated, the PC market represents a way for mobile-phone carriers to get more people to buy monthly wireless Internet-access service plans. Consumers who buy wireless Web access can save money on the up-front purchase price of a computer and the price of monthly access to high-speed Internet.

ITC picks up Nokia’s global packaging deal.

IT HAS remained a well kept secret for a while. ITC is now the principal supplier of value-added packaging material and box cartons for every Nokia cellphone that gets shipped to as many as 50 countries from the Finnish telecom giant’s Chennai factory.

E-tailing for Success.

This article discusses the benefits of e-commerce as a retail option in a recessionary economy, and lists effective strategies when adopting an online medium that could result in growth for a retailer.

UK: Google launches Street View mapping service

UK: Google’s mapping service Street View, which stitches together live photos showing Britain’s streets, has been launched in the UK.
The internet search giant first rolled out the service in the US two years ago, and has been expanding its mapping to other countries, including Japan, France, Canada and Ireland.
The 3D images are captured by special [...]