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Privacy is a concept long sacrificed on the altar of convenience. More legislative attention improves temporarily the situation, until the large conglomerates learn their way around it. We look at a recent analysis made by pCloud.  

If you have ever participated in an auction, you may have sometimes lost what seemed like a very good deal at the very last minute. We will describe here how and why that might happen and how you could as well win an auction at the last minute.

There are people who mourn the imminent disappearance of Twinkies. I am not one of them, but I've had something to do with their advertising.

Do you have a bright idea and a desire to discover a new world? Consider going to Chile then, where the government will give 25 US entrepreneurs $40000 and office space in Santiago to see it flourish.

I have recently received a Valentine's Day card from Google. But rather than signs of love, I'd much rather get signs of respect, for where there is no love, it's just (corporate) lust.

We grieved when we learned that Skype had been bought by eBay. Either Google or Yahoo would've made a much better sugar daddy and had strong commitments to customer service, while eBay's public goodwill was slowly being eroded by inept practices. An official announcement will be made tomorrow, but whoever will take it over is bound to be a better owner.

As expected, smaller, nimbler operators were in the spotlight in the J.D. Power’s Satisfaction Study. More specifically, Koodo and Virgin Mobile left far behind giants like Rogers and Bell.

  The Beijing Olympics are in the center of the world's attention, exemplifying what the Chinese leadership has deemed the "peaceful rise". We take a quick look at smaller consumerist happenings in and from China.