Studies show 60% of U.S. retail sales will involve the web by 2017

Studies show 60% of U.S. retail sales will involve the web by 2017 (which by the way is not that far off)

Researching products or buying products  by lap top and cell phone is clearly on the rise.  From buying food to household items the Internet is gaining favorable among buyers of all ages.

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NoMoreRack.com triples web sales this year and raises $40 million

profitable.

Stefany Moore

Senior Editor, Research

Topics: Deepak Agarwal, Groupon Goods, investment funding round, NoMoreRack.com, Top 500

After only three years of selling discounted products online, NoMoreRack.com Inc. is on track to bring in $300 million in e-commerce revenue in 2013, three times last year’s total of $100 million, says CEO Deepak Agarwal.
Investors are taking notice, as the e-retailer secured $40 million in new funding this week, on top of $12 million it raised in November 2012. Investors are fond of NoMoreRack because it’s growing fast, Agarwal says, but also because it’s a lean operation that relies more on technology than it does manpower. So it’s very profitable, he says, though he wouldn’t disclose specifics.  read more....

 Google letting you hand-write your e-mails

 

By Heather Kelly, CNN updated 5:44 PM EDT, Wed October 23, 2013

For many, typing has long overtaken handwriting as their primary word and sentence creation method. So much so that some schools no longer teach cursive. But now, Google is bringing some good old fashioned handwriting back to modern communication, adding new handwriting input tools to Gmail and Google Docs. Those tools now allow you to write out what you want to say with a mousepad or cursor and Google will do its best to create a typed version of your words. The input box will show the most likely matches for your word, so below your handwritten "cats" it might display this list of possible words: cats, rats, Cats, oats, and carts. Click on the right one and keep on writing.  Read More (I dare not use this new tool my hand writing is terrible)

Online Video Service Would Be Available on Set-Top Boxes

Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals

 Netflix Inc. is in talks with several U.S. pay-television providers including Comcast Corp. and Suddenlink Communications to make its online video service available as an app on their set-top boxes, people familiar with the matter say. 

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Google unveils new HP laptop for $279

Google is introducing a new $279 laptop based on its Internet-centric Chrome operating system, borrowing many of the high-end features found in a model that costs about $1,000 more.

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The Chromebook 11 is available starting Tuesday at Google's only Play store and selected retailers. The laptop comes in white or black. The white model has a choice of four accents around the keyboard and under the device: blue, red, yellow and green.

Exclusive: Microsoft investors push for chairman Gates to step down

By Nadia Damouni and Bill Rigby

NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the software company he co-founded 38 years ago, according to people familiar with matter.

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