Online retailer Amazon.com is launching a customer credit program, which it bills as a virtual credit card, in a move to lure more customers into its site just weeks ahead of the height of Christmas shopping
According to a panel of industry experts, e-business is not a lost cause, but is simply waiting for the right touch from the right entrepreneurs
to prove its sustainable viability in the Australian market. Given the right business plan, an understanding of the Internet and the confidence of your customers, your business might just be the Internet’s Prince Charming
The administrator of embattled etailer E-Store, Ian Purchase, has revealed the company is in deliberations with two parties that have expressed interest in assisting it out of debt
Students at Indiana University are leading a campaign to get state agencies to reject doing business with Boise Cascade, a company accused of environmental abuses
Drinks maker Coca-Cola has come under fire from Harry Potter fans for using images of the popular character in its latest advertising campaign
There is no banking system in Afghanistan, but there is a network of money-changers with a system that has withstood 20 years of war and corrupt governments and may come close to a theoretically pure marketplace
Polaroid, which made cameras that developed photos on the spot, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The US firm has been struggling under a debt mountain for some months, and the announcement had been widely rumoured
Administrators of the troubled Australian etailer E-Store have revealed the company’s debt to a pool of 80-odd creditors amounts to about AU$2 million — the bastards still owe me a copy of Metal Gear Solid
The Dallas city council overwhelmingly voted down a proposed site for a new inner city McDonald’s restaurant. This followed months of intense community organising and coalition building among diverse groups including Vegetarian Society of Dallas, Krishna religious community, Mt Auburn neighbourhood association, UPROAR — United People Resisting Oppression And Racism — Hindu organisations and others
Sandor Ligetfalvy’s never-sent, but wonderfully worded letter of resignation from McDonald’s offers a glimpse behind the shiny façade into the appalling way that employees are treated
When a Cleveland-based business-to-business start-up failed several months ago, executives planned to follow a well-paved dot-com death pattern: Lay off workers, sell assets and reimburse creditors. Employees had a different plan. Between the layoffs and the asset auction, they stole $35,000 worth of laptops, handheld computers, monitors and laser printers. That left some executives, venture capitalists and other uninsured creditors in a financial lurch
Four of Australia’s biggest telecommunications companies, Optus, AAPT, Macquarie Corporate and Primus, have banded together to challenge the pricing power of industry incumbent Telstra
Telstra is boasting about its lowest complaints tally in three years, but the industry ombudsman says that’s only because there haven’t been enough operators to take calls
The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to reject Microsoft’s request that it consider throwing out the findings that the company abused its software monopoly
Unilever has demanded that Procter & Gamble open itself to an auditor to ensure that Procter & Gamble does not act on information it obtained from corporate spies
Notorious logging company, Boise Cascade, signs up World Wide Fund for Nature for help with their image-management
Two of Norway’s largest forest owner associations, have initiated a campaign to make the wolf disappear from Norway. Viken and Norskog sell their products mainly to Norske Skog ASA, in which both Viken and Norskog are shareholders. The company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of paper for print (magazines, newspaper et.) and the majority of its exports go to UK and Germany. The whole chain, from forest to consumers, is eco-labelled under PEFC as coming from sustainable operated forest…
Maybe it should be labelled: coming from wolf-free forests
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A growing number of online companies are ambushing competitors through software that puts ads where marketers want them most — in front of customers visiting rival web sites
Hamburger chain McDonald’s has gained a strong foothold in New South Wales schools by offering cheap cheeseburgers, school deliveries and a cut of profits to parents and citizens’ associations that send diners to its outlets
Esso Australia’s record $2 million fine over the fatal Longford gas explosion has been likened to a corporate speeding ticket by unions
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