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It’s time for Canada to drop tariffs on Internet imports

Since the 1940s, farmers in Canada and the United States have been able to ship tractors and tractor parts across the border without paying a dime in duties. Free trade in tractors at a time when agriculture was a critical North American industry? What a sensible idea, and evidence of the strong ties of friendship, commerce and economic common sense that have long existed between our two countries.

Yahoo salvages Verizon deal with $350 million discount

Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts. The revised agreement, announced Tuesday, eases investor worries that Verizon Communications Inc. would demand a discount of at least $1 billion or cancel the deal entirely.

Wal-Mart Earnings Fall, But Online Sales Surge

Wal-Mart drew more shoppers to its namesake stores in the United States and its e-commerce sales soared, signs that its efforts to lower prices and improve web services are helping it compete better against online leader Amazon. The company saw the biggest gain in a key revenue measure in its U.S business in four years, marking the tenth consecutive increase.

Wal-Mart earnings fall, but online sales surge

But the world’s largest retailer saw its U.S. business accelerate during the period that covers the holiday shopping season. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company said Tuesday it earned $3.76 billion, or $1.22 per share in the three months ended Jan. 31. That compares with $4.57 billion, or $1.43 per share, a year ago.

Walmart Surprisingly Didn’t Have an Ugly Holiday Season

Walmart shares climbed by 2.35% to $71 a share in pre-market trading Tuesday after the retail giant reported strong fourth quarter and full-year results. Fourth quarter earnings came in at $1.30 a share on revenue of $133.6 billion, Analysts had estimated earnings of $1.28 a share on sales of $131.1 billion.

China’s consumption to maintain strong growth in 2017

China will maintain strong growth in consumption this year with deepening supply-side structural reform, Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Tuesday. The trend will persist between 2016 and 2020 and feature more online retail sales and consumption of more quality goods and services, he said at a news conference, citing stellar growth in these sectors.

Google, Microsoft agree to crackdown on piracy sites

For the first time, global tech giants Google and Microsoft have agreed to tighten up their search engines as part of a crackdown on piracy sites illegally streaming events and films. Google and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, have signed up to a voluntary code of practice and will ensure offending websites are demoted in their search results.

Google and Microsoft will demote piracy links in UK search results

Both Microsoft and Google have agreed to demote piracy links in search results in the UK, it has been announced, in their latest efforts to help crack down on Internet piracy. This move, if it proceeds, will be a first of its kind, and will result in Google Search and Bing demoting websites in search results that give access to copyrighted content without the authority to do so.

UPDATE 1-China’s Ant to invest $200 mln in Korea’s Kakao Pay

SHANGHAI, Feb 21 China’s Ant Financial will invest $200 million in Kakao Pay, the mobile payment subsidiary of South Korean messaging platform giant Kakao Corp, extending a major push by the Chinese firm to create a global network of financial assets. The two firms said in a joint statement on Tuesday that the investment was part of a larger strategic partnership to help connect Ant’s 450 million global users with Kakao Pay, which currently has over 14 million members on its platform.

E-Commerce Having a Growing Impact on the Automotive Industry

Most sales projections coming out of last month’s North American International Auto Show indicate a slow, gradual, but extended decline following a banner year in 2016. However, competition and sales activity looks to be rousing in one niche area of the industry the online marketplaces which is forcing traditional carmakers and sellers to react to stronger showings by automotive e-commerce companies.

Google, Bing Agree to Help U.K. Creative Industries Fight Pirate Sites

A voluntary code of practice is designed to “kick-start collaboration between the parties to demote links to websites that are dedicated to infringing content for consumers in the U.K.” Google and Microsoft’s Bing are two big-name search engines that have voluntarily signed on to a first-of-its kind initiative in Britain aimed at “reducing the availability of infringing content accessed through online search.” The agreement between representatives of rights holders and major search engines was unveiled Monday following a government-chaired series of roundtables.

Google & Microsoft To Demote Piracy Sites In UK Search Results

In a world first, Google and Microsoft have finally agreed to crackdown on piracy sites in the UK. On Monday, it was announced that the search engine giants had both signed up to a voluntary code of practice which will see them commit to demote websites that have been repeatedly served with copyright infringement notices, thereby making it much harder for UK internet users to download and stream films, TV, music and sport illegally.

Google & Bing To Step Up Demoting Piracy From UK Search Results

News is out that Google and Bing have made a deal with the Intellectual Property Office and British Phonographic Industry and Motion Picture Association organizations for both search engines to do better removing or demoting pirated content in the UK search results. Both search engines, according to the report, have promised to reduce pirated content in their search results by June 1, 2017.

Google, Microsoft agree to Crack down on Internet Piracy

Websites that stream or host pirated material may find it harder to feature on the first pages of two leading search engines as Google and Microsoft, which uses Bing search engine, have agreed to a new code of conduct designed to demote such websites in Britain, media reported on Monday. The code brokered by Britain’s Intellectual Property Office aims to stop search engines from driving traffic to illegal websites, the Telegraph reported.

McCombs alumnus is making your mattress cool again

A 2006 graduate of the McCombs School of Business, Krim is the co-founder and CEO of Casper, an e-commerce company that takes a Silicon Valley approach to a relatively low-tech product: mattresses. Casper has disrupted the monotonous mattress buying and selling game in two significant ways.

Megan Briggs: Think before you Wi-Fi

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Cogobuy Expects Doubling of Its Q1 Optical Communication Product Orders

The increase is likely to boost business volume in 2017, aided by the new investment cycle for carriers with growing demand for optical communication, Optical Transport Network upgrading, and 4.5G/5G construction. With its business partners, Cogobuy provides customers with the major components of fiber optic systems, including optical modules and optical chips, and constitutes a competitive product line to offer the optimal communication module, as well as Fiber-To-The-Home , 4G/5G LTE, and Internet Data Center core programmes, keepng up with demand for optical communications infrastructure.

Expedia and Amazon Double Down on Britain

As politicians and businesses wrestle with potential changes to U.K. border controls, one of the world’s largest online travel booking companies has decided to double its headcount in London, and it’s not alone in looking to expand. Expedia Inc. will expand its U.K. office by 138,000 square feet, or to roughly twice the size of its existing space, and has signed a new lease that runs until 2030, according to a company statement.

Is This the Next Industry Amazon Wants to Conquer?

The e-commerce titan is setting its eyes on the payment platforms space, where it faces fierce competition from the likes of Apple Pay and PayPal. Can it succeed? issued a press release with a bold headline: “More than 33 Million Customers Have Used Amazon Payments to Make a Purchase.”

Namazu

It not only works as a CGI program for a small or medium scale Web search engine, but also works as a personal use search system for your pile of emails. Supported document types are HTML, Mail/News, MHonArc, RFC, TeX , man , PDF and plain text.

Postal dept to deliver products of Alibaba, Amazon

The postal department is going to collaborate with the world’s leading e-commerce business entities — Alibaba.com and Amazon.com — to deliver their products across the country. A pilot project will start within a short time, Tarana Halim, state minister for Post and Telecommunications, said after a meeting with the officials of the postal department at her office today.

Who’s Winning in Online Beauty Right Now

Online beauty became a $1.2 billion industry in 2016, and cosmetics companies such as Estee Lauder have been expanding their e-commerce efforts while Amazon gains market share. Digital beauty sales rose 14% year over year in 2016: one in every five beauty purchases online was made through Amazon Marketplace, according to new research released this week from data analytics firm 1010data.

JD.com withdraws ‘fake’ Lafite online

China’s leading e-commerce company JD.com has quietly withdrawn the sale of counterfeit Lafite that was marketed under the first growth’s Chinese name, despite its adamant claim that the look-alike Lafite which appeared on its online auction site was a completely different wine from the Pauillac estate. JD.com has quietly taken down counterfeit Lafite after it was exposed to sell lookalike Lafite.