Tag: ecommerce
Senate passes Internet sales tax in final vote, 69-27
The US Senate passed an online sales tax in a vote this afternoon after a heated final round of debate. A small group of anti-tax Republicans, as well as Democratic Senators from states without sales tax like Montana and Oregon, argued vociferously against the bill—but to no avail. The final vote was 69-27, not much […]
CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes
When this goes through (though possibly not this year) some business is going to make a mint providing a back-end service to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a purchase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Checkout should start building that now, if they haven’t already.
Technologizer – Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy
So happy to see this company fail, this was a despicable business model.
Scottish Ruby Conference – Ticket Sales Close Monday 7 Feb, at the latest
PayPal has to be one of the worst payment processors for business it seems on the internet.
TechCrunch – Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP
This is so weird and disturbing the idea of a political entity being able to just disconnect itself from the internet.
Rough Type – Same shit, different medium
I love that last sentence it defines very precisely how the medium is an important factor in differences existing while the high level appears to be the same.