Cisco to retailers: The real issue is Internet on mobile phones, not GST
Australian retailers should consider how to take advantage of mobile Internet rather than being preoccupied with imposing tax on goods bought online.
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Starbucks extends mobile payments to 7,500 stores
Starbucks Wednesday began allowing iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry mobile payments for its coffee at thousands of its stores.
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Taiwan develops face-recognition vending machine
Government-funded researchers in Taiwan have developed a vending machine that recommends purchases based on people's faces, one of the inventors said on Friday.
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Ovum: Retail banking technologies set to take off in the next five years
The Asia-Pacific region is set to experience the highest growth of 49 per cent to be worth $US28.1 billion by 2015, analyst firm, Ovum.
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Apple to dump all restocking fees, say reports
Apple will ditch its 10 per cent restocking fee for all returned hardware, according to reports by a pair of technology blogs.
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Gerry Harvey: Retailers will perish unless online sales are equally taxed
Harvey Norman’s outspoken chairman, Gerry Harvey, has claimed many retailers will perish unless immediate action is taken to add GST onto Internet transactions of under $1000.
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Advocacy groups: Don't tax online shopping yet
Internet advocacy group, Electronic Frontiers Australia, has launched a counter-campaign against retailers lobbying for online purchases to be taxed.
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ARA: More than 65 per cent of retailers doing worse this Christmas
It’s not a merry Christmas for retailers, according to the Australian Retailers Association (ARA). Its weekly tracking of trade has shown over 65 per cent are trading worse than they were last year at the height of the global financial crisis.
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Facebook rakes in $2B in 2010
Not long after being criticized for not knowing how to make money, Facebook is looking to reel in more than $2 billion in sales in 2010.
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Rugged handhelds announced by Motorola
Motorola announced two rugged Wi-Fi-ready mobile computers Tuesday for use in retail, manufacturing and health care.
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Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday
Amazon plans to demonstrate a new version of Kindle for the Web on Tuesday, one day after Google launched its Google eBooks and eBookstore strategy.
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Retailer accused of inflating Google ranking is arrested
An online retailer who boasted that complaints about his business helped boost its standing in Google search results was arrested Monday.
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Intel switches on 'first virtual retail salesperson in Asia'
Silicon solutions firm Intel Malaysia has launched the Intel Virtual Retail Salesperson (RSP) to enhance consumers' IT shopping experience in a mall.
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Staples sets up Australian online shop
Since its buyout of Corporate Express earlier this year, US-based office supplies retailer, Staples has launched its own Australian online retail site.
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City Software rebrands to eStore
Melbourne-based reseller and online retailer, [[xref:http://www.arnnet.com.au/tag/city%20software|City Software|All on City Software]], has changed its name to eStore.
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