Your dog’s feet need protection in winter – especially from snow and
ice. When looking for protective products, you want to consider three
things: minimizing slippage on ice, keeping your dog’s feet warm, and
keeping your dog away from chemicals used by local governments or
individuals to dissipate ice. Each of these products achieves at least
one of these goals, and I consider them the very best of what’s
available….
If you have furniture you want to protect, you can either train your
pets not to jump on it or you can cover the special places your pet
likes with a decorative blanket or a furniture cover specifically
designed for pets, one that is easy to clean and has special padding for
your pets comfort. But the newest addition to these pet furniture pads
is bolsters that make the pads more like pet beds. These new features
consider the need, desire, and tendency for dogs and cats to rest with
their heads raised or ‘bolstered.’
A new year, and new sales taxes on Amazon purchases made in Indiana, Nevada and Tennessee. Sorry, folks!
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90 million unique visitors a month has to be good for something. But so far Reddit hasn’t been able to stay consistently profitable even with all those people (yeah, you) banging down the door.
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iPhone and iPad shoppers were more than five times more active than their Android counterparts in online sales on Christmas Day, researchers claim, spending nearly twice as much per order … Continue reading
UPS and FedEx are under fire for over-promising and quite literally under-delivering this holiday season, as retailers like Amazon are forced to apologize and offer compensation while simultaneously announcing record … Continue reading
Amazon is the largest online retailer of its kind in the world, and the numbers it has released today are certainly in line with that. The company saw record breaking sales during the 2013 holiday shopping season, with over 36.8 million items being sold on Cyber Monday alone. That’s up from 26.5 million items on Cyber Monday 2012 and amounts to a staggering 426 items sold every single second. This holiday season, Amazon shipped to 185 countries and it shipped enough items with Prime to deliver at least one gift to every household in the country.
Moreover, Amazon Prime drew in over one million members from around the world only in the third week of December. Prime Instant Video catalog surged from 33,000 titles to 40,000 movies and TV shows, the Kindle store played host to over 200,000 exclusive books in 2013. Xbox One and PlayStation 4 topped the gaming charts, during the peak time around Black Friday, both consoles saw sales topping 1,000 units per minute. Amazon’s best seller charts had the Kindle Fire and Kindle e-readers on top, they were some of the most sold products in their category throughout the holiday season. An interesting fun fact to note is that half of Amazon’s customers during this period shopped using a mobile device, another is that enough Crayola Marker Makers were purchased this season to draw a line around the world four times.
Amazon Saw 426 Items Being Sold Per Second During 2013 Holiday Season original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It has been over a week since Target was hit by a severe security breach which, according to the retailer’s estimate, ended up in compromising over 40 million credit and debit card numbers. This is actually the second largest breach ever reported by a U.S. retailer, according to Target the breach lasted 19 days, starting before Thanksgiving. A senior payments executive “familiar with the situation” told Reuters that encrypted bank PINs were also compromised, but Target says that no PINs were accessed.
According to the executive, a major U.S. bank fears that consumer bank accounts might be at risk of fraudulent withdrawals if thieves are able to crack the encryption code. Target hasn’t revealed exactly how the security breach went down, only describing it as “sophisticated.” It is now being investigated by the Justice Department and the U.S. Secret Service. The retailer is adamant that PINs weren’t accessed, however spokeswoman Molly Snyder did say that some encrypted data was stolen but didn’t specify if it included PINs as well. So if you have shopped at Target during this time period and have paid by a credit or debit card, you might want to be extra vigilant with regards to your bank account activity. The smart thing to do would be to change PINs and cancel possibly affected cards, even though that might inconvenience you a bit.
Target Denies That Bank PINs Were Compromised In Hack original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Christmas is around the corner – do you know where your
gifts are? I’m sure at least a few of you have neglected to do your
shopping and are desperately scrambling to get things done now.
Let me help you along – here are a few last-minute presents every gamer
would love to see under their tree.
One annoying thing about Christmas is all the shopping. So many store. So many lines. So many sales—well, that one’s not bad.
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