Australian group buying web sites comparative analysis report is published
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Who is the biggest player on the hot group buying market in Australia? Comparative research. « Blog – Altima Interactive Australia
After the phenomenal success of GroupOn, new group buying (group purchasing) web sites had started to appear virtually every day. It is extremely hot trend and even in Australia we have many of them. One day I asked myself, who is the leader of this market? Who close deals more often, attract more consumers and get highest volume of the transaction? So when I got some spare time, I conducted a small research to answer this questions and find out more insights.
Carsales.com buys online auction site OZtion - Business news, business advice and information for Australian SMEs | SmartCompany
Australia's second largest online auction site, OZtion, has been sold for the second time in just over two years, with online classifieds giant Carsales.com acquiring the business for $1.1 million.Carsales.com bought OZtion from Melbourne-based listed media company Jumbuck Entertainment, which is now concentrating on mobile entertainment products, specifically chat services.
WIPO shuts down 1saleaday.com.au - Software - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au
WIPO shuts down 1saleaday.com.auBy Negar Salek on Oct 22, 2010 9:57 AM (8 hours ago)Filed under Software Customers left in the lurch after trademark dispute.The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has stepped in to effectively force the shutdown of an Australian e-tailer, following a trademark dispute with a U.S. company of the same name.Complaints by US discount e-tailer 1SaleAday to WIPO have forced the operators of 1SaleADay.com.au to shut up shop, leaving customers in the lurch with unfulfilled orders.
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Australian consumer ecommerce market lagging - Marketing Magazine
Frost & Sullivan have identified the Australian consumer ecommerce market as being undeveloped and lagging both the US and UK markets by approximately three years.The market is expected to reach $12 billion for the 2010 calendar year. This figure excludes online services such as online ticketing and events, travel, music downloads and financial services. It equates to per capita expenditure of approximately $536 per year, which is slightly behind the US and UK markets.
There is something endearingly cheeky about Ruslan Kogan, the founder of online retail upstart Kogan Technologies.In June, we shared Kogan Technology’s very funny satirical advertisement for Minister Conroy’s ’spams and scams’ internet filter. This was not the first time we caught a glimpse of the young entrepreneur’s sense of humour. In March 2009, his company introduced Australian consumers to the chuckle-prompting KEVIN 37 Plasma Television set for $900.Ruslan Kogan hits back at Gerry Harvey with satirical advertisement | Anthill Magazine
Not PCI Compliant? No Problem | Practical eCommerce
By Practical eCommerce's count, there are nearly 600 English-language shopping carts. These include hosted carts, licensed software carts and open-source carts. There are small ones with just a few clients, and large ones with tens of thousands of clients.But, as of July 14, only 40 of them were either PCI compliant (hosted solutions) or PA-DSS validated (licensed shopping carts). That date is important because the PCI Security Standards Council has long held that shopping carts, which are either "Payment Applications" or "Validated Service Providers" as defined by that organization, must affirmatively pass compliance standards by July 1, 2010. And it's easy to determine the carts that have been approved because there are two separate lists that contain them.
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