By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese government push to promote e-commerce has created a host of online retail rivals for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Amazon.com Inc catering to shoppers' fears about the quality and safety of local everyday goods.
Read moreBOSTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc has pushed out its first-ever automated security update to Macintosh computers to help defend against newly identified bugs that security researchers have warned could enable hackers to gain remote control of machines. The company pushed out the software on Monday to fix critical security vulnerabilities in a component of its OS X operating system called the network time protocol, or NTP, according to Apple spokesman Bill Evans.NTP is used for synchronizing clocks on computer systems. ..
Read morePC World – Marketers in the U.S. boosted their online ad spending in the first half of 2010 after holding on tight to their purse strings for most of last year.
Read moreAFP – US online advertising revenue rose 11.3 percent during the first six months of the year to 12.1 billion dollars to set a half-year record, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) said Tuesday.
Read moreMashable – Apple has published an artists’ guide to Ping, its iTunes-linked, music-based social network.
Read moreMashable – Apple has published an artists’ guide to Ping, its iTunes-linked, music-based social network.
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