PayPal wants to make it easier to buy low-cost digital goods online, whether it's a single article on a news website or virtual items in a video game.  Scott Thompson, the online payment service's president, said that PayPal plans to roll ou...

Virtually all small businesses that order their supplies online say free shipping is an important decision factor when selecting a retailer.  According to a recent survey commissioned by US stationery retailer Staples, 99 per cent of small b...

After six months of searching for a buyer, Adultshop.com has decided to take a different route to rebuild the business.  The company has purchased bordello company Stiletto for $20 million in stock from Blackfeather. ...

Google shook up its lucrative online advertising service in Europe on Wednesday, saying it would allow sellers to register other companies' brand names as search 'keywords' when shopping on the internet.  Google currently allows advertisers ...

Amazon may have the brand awareness in the English-speaking world. But a Japanese internet giant has equally lofty global ambitions...  As Austrade official Christopher Rees put it: “A lot of people ask why isn’t Japan, with all ...

Job seekers might concede their social networking sites are in the public domain - but that doesn't give employers the right to use them as part of the recruiting process.... Thats the bizarre finding of an online survey of 900 job candidates unde...

Vivo Cafe's flagship store in the Sydney CBD has successfully hosted a breakfast event by using the relatively new social media platform, Foursquare.  Similar to Facebook or Twitter, Foursquare is a free social networking service with which ...

Nearly one in two adults with access to the internet have bypassed their banks’ online bill payment service and go directly to the biller’s website instead.And 22 per cent of online banking customers have never paid a bill online at all. ...

The world's largest online retailer of new products - Amazon - says sales of digital books are soaring, helping boost sales by 41 per cent in the last fiscal quarter.Amazon.com released its second quarter trading results overnight (Australian time) T...

A new UK online concept aims to offer a one-stop-shop for browsing and accessing fashion and lifestyle products from budding UK designers. document.write(''); MyRetailHeaven, an online fashion ...