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Consumers choose marketplace over retail websites: survey

August 5, 2015 publisher amazon-payments, before-looking, consumer-chose, not-selection, product, purchase-online, retail, search-engines, sidelines, starting-their, survey, the-sidelines, vice-president

Digital shoppers are increasingly starting their product searches on retail marketplace platforms, which allow third-party merchants to sell goods, before looking on an individual retailer’s website, according to a report released on Tuesday by Amazon.com Inc and Pymnts.com.

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Senate takes up cybersecurity bill this week

August 4, 2015 admin amazon-payments, consumer-chose, every-member, government, leader-mitch, make-it-easier, once-it-comes, retail, said-on-tuesday, said-the-bill, search-engines, senate, starting-their, the-sidelines, urge-the-senate

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.

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Telecom Italia agrees broadband test deal with Swisscom unit

May 5, 2015 creative also-expected, been-resisting, board-meeting, capabilities, giuseppe-recchi, italian, latest-results, network, phone-booth, said-on-tuesday, sidelines, telecom, telecom-italia, the-sidelines, upgrading-its

Telecom Italia has signed an agreement with Swisscom unit Fastweb to test technologies that can bring ultra high speed broadband connections into Italian households using copper wires. Telecom Italia's current investment plan is centered on upgrading its existing network and the company has been resisting calls by government officials to develop a wholly new fiber optic network.

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EU’s Oettinger expects decision on Google case in next few days

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The European Union's digital commissioner Guenther Oettinger said he expects the European Commission to make a decision in a five-year investigation over whether Google has abused its dominant position in the next few days. “We have to make or even force platforms, search engines to follow our rules in Europe,” Oettinger said an event organized by engineering association VDMA on the sidelines of the Hanover Trade Fair.