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24 Million of Clients Data Exposed after Hacker Attack on Zappos.com

After the Christmas’ sales, Zappos.com got a surprise. The company that focuses on clothing and shoes –purchased by Amazon on 2009– was chosen by hackers to be the resource of millions of data from...

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E-commerce in Africa – the World of New Possibilities

If you want to get rich, move to Africa. This could be the slogan of an imminent revolution of the forgotten continent. Internet’s explosion, social media and e-commerce that so many new millionaires...

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Amazon’s Shares Reach New Highs Due to 2012 Historical Incomes

While other sectors have not found a clear way to use Internet as an accurate tool to reinforce their market (like Journalism, for example), e-commerce has established itself on Internet as an...

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Burger King and Jeep’s Twitter Accounts Hacked

On February 18, Burger King found out that its Twitter account was manipulated by hackers. Where its picture profile used to be appeared McDonalds instead and some insulting tweets on the wall....

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Will the Rumor Become True: Physical Google Retail Stores?

Beyond the screens of electronic devices, Google could become. Not just typing, but touching. Fik Observatory reports on the rumours of the 9to5google blog about a probable opening of a Google physical...

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5 Chines eBays for Cheaper Shopping

If Apple chooses China as its provider for electronics, why not take advantage of e-commerce to get closer to the biggest factory country in the world. Every single day, more Chinese websites are...

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Barcelona Hosts the World Mobile Congress

Throughout 4 days, Barcelona became the world’s capital of the mobile technology. 72.000 attendants among those who were businessmen or experts from 200 countries have gone to the most visited Mobile...

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Google Play, Close to Conquering The Apple App Store

App Annie, a data collector firm, discovered that the Apple App Store earned a 350% more than Google Play, the Android app store in 2012. However, they also note that in the last quarter of that same...

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How to Increase Sales With Recommended Products: Cross-Selling

It doesn’t matter what sector we’re talking about these days. All the headlines point in the same direction: product cross-selling (and Big Data) will be the online store’s priority in 2013. The...

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Google Reader Will Disappear in 2013

After almost eight years, Google has decided to retire its RSS Reader. The initiative has been used by many people to get the latest updates about their business area, whatever it could be for a long...

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The British Demand Amazon to Pay Sales Taxes

Just one month ago, The Fik reported on the risk of Amazon facing tax commotion. Now, citizens take the lead to combat the money drain and the unequal huge-corporations deal with the government....

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Blackberry Hits a Record: Order of One Million Devices

While everybody knows that the there is a competition between Google, Apple and Microsoft, BlackBerry is hot on the heels of them. An unusual petition has raised its prestige. The market was expecting...

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Google Keyword Advertising Could Be a Let-Down, Says eBay

Businesses may be wasting billions of pounds a year buying up keyword advertising on search engines such as Google, is the eBay’s assertation after carrying out research about AdWords. Google has based...

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Amazon, The Most Satisfactory E-commerce Website for Customers

Good news do not stop coming for Amazon. They started the year with the rising value of its shares, as Fik Observatory reported earlier, and now the customers’ satisfaction is a new reason to...

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Who is the owner of your LinkedIn account?

A concrete case has focused on the rights that an individual has over the control of their social media accounts when there is an enterprise in the middle. After almost two years, a federal judge has...

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Will Your Social Data Last Forever On the Internet?

Social media is the ultimate expressions of the human interconnections, so it is a synonym of being alive. Still, death is not the most common topic to think about regarding the online world. It is a...

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Nuance Ads Gives Your Customers a Voice for Communication

The voice-recognition company Nuance, developer of voice technology solutions in limitless fields, has taken a step towards paving a new way for ads in mobile devices. The idea is simple but...

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FireSearch Leads an Anti-Trust Complaint Against Google

Google is in the spotlight again. This time, is the European business and organizations coalition FairSeach the one that has filed a complaint with the European Commission denouncing its allegedly...

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Inditex online stores recive 3 million visits per day

Since its beginning, talking about the Inditex group, it was a successful offline case. Especially Zara. Right now, they can proudly say that the unbreakable relationship between the company and the...

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An App Allows You to Try Glasses with 3D Virtual Try-On

No more limits for shopping online. You will not have to wonder if something fits you or not before making your purchasing decision. Glasses.com, an online shop which gathers different glasses models...

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