Online search leader Google Inc. said Wednesday it is waiving the merchant processing fees for its 4-month-old payment service through Dec. 31, hoping the offer will spur more retailers to check it out.
Merchants already could avoid the processing fees, depending on how much they spend on Internet advertisements distributed by Google. The promotion is also [...]

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Discovery Communications Inc. is buying two pet-related businesses for about $35 million and folding them into its Animal Planet cable channel, forming a new business unit focused on pets and animals.
Maureen Smith, the head of the Animal Planet channel, will oversee the new group which will now include Petfinder.com, a leading Web site for facilitating [...]

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I recently came accross another web innovation called, SparkPeople which is an online resource for weight loss and healthy living. Sparkpeople offers advice on weight loss, nutrition and exercise, and recently launched a social-networking service.
SparkPeople is a leading online health company. SparkPeople’s goal is to help as many people as possible to lead meaningful [...]

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PortfolioLink is a virtual stock portfolio application for investing in a simulated stock market environment. Member created portfolios are searchable and viewable across the site.
PortfolioLink is a financial website which allows users to engage in stock portfolio investing in a simulated stock market environment. Users have the ability to create and manage stock portfolios by [...]

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oDesk is as simple as Hire-Manage-Pay. If you’re looking to outsource some quality, possibly overseas labor for important projects. oDesk makes talent transcend the boundaries of the conventional workplace. Now you can be sitting in New York and hire an employee through oDesk from Tokyo.

oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology [...]

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Microsoft Corp. is preparing to officially release software that helps small companies do things like build a Web site and maintain business contacts, and plans to link the product to its platform for selling online advertising.Microsoft said Monday that it will officially release Office Live in the United States Nov. 15, and simultaneously launch test [...]

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RightCart is a free embeddable shopping cart system that makes it easy for you to sell products on your website or blog. Simply paste a widget on your blog or website, list the items that you have to sell. And start making a bit of cash.
RightCart is a site that provides you with a shopping [...]

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Conduit is an easy to use free community toolbar builder. With Conduit, you can take the best of your website, including content, alerts and offers and put them in a dynamic community toolbar that sits on your customers’ browser, giving you more “face-time” than any other tool.
ConduitBuilder wizard enables you to custom create your community [...]

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If you have a small business website or a small online store, Loomia can work to give even your little website a competitive edge over others. By providing a recommendation engine as a Web service, Loomia helps you to add Amazon or Netflix style recommendations to your site. All that is required on your part [...]

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