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Waste Management's new e-commerce site creates additional revenue streams for the company and gives its IT team sales quotas to fill

In advance of the holiday season, the FBI reminds shoppers to beware of cyber criminals and their aggressive and creative ways to steal money and personal information. Scammers use many techniques to fool potential victims including fraudulent auction sales, reshipping merchandise purchased with a stolen credit card, sale of fraudulent or stolen gift cards through auction sites at discounted prices, and phishing e-mails advertising brand name merchandise for bargain prices or e-mails promoting the sale of merchandise that ends up being a counterfeit product.

Online retailer Amazon.com is reportedly redesigning its Web site, which sells everything from books to electronics and handbags, with a focus on supporting tablet computer users.

Rather than using some in-world currency, Blizzard announced items can be sold and bought for real US dollars. That's a big difference, and speculation abounds.

The things you can purchase online these days are nothing short of mind-boggling.

Beginning Wednesday, Starbucks' bar code-based mobile payment app will be extended to the Android platform.

Crutchfield, an electronics and auto stereo retailer, has found that the easier a smartphone payment technology is for buyers to use, the greater the number of sales.

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PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies.

Visa announced a broad mobile wallet service today that includes near field communication and other technologies for making retail purchases and for allowing person-to-person transactions from wireless devices.

Hallmark saw a 30% increase in its customer conversion rate when it built a new website whose response time was 370% better than that of the previous site.