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Customer product reviews are increasing retail e-commerce conversion rates, site traffic and average order values, according to e-consultancy and Bazaarvoice's "Social Commerce Report 2007" report.

The OECD announced that the Republic of the Marshall Islands has made a commitment to implement a programme to improve transparency and to establish effective exchange of information in tax matters.

CCID Consulting's research shows that driven by the home PC market and SMB users, desktop PC sales volume in China grew 13.6% in the first half of 2007, marking a small rise in growth rate year-on-year.

Cash-rich oil companies should become the darlings of merger & acquisition activity in the coming months as investors shy away from deals that involve purchasing through "Wall Street's debt machine," according to James DiGeorgia, editor and publisher of the Gold and Energy Advisor.

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announced its consolidated market performance statistics for the NASDAQ Market Center for the month of July.

The rollercoaster ride on Wall Street continues; on Monday stocks shot-up as investors bought into beaten down shares of financial companies. The markets also got a boost from speculation the Federal Reserve may take steps to reassure investors at its policy meeting.

NYSE Euronext reported record transaction volume in U.S. and European trading operations in July 2007 in addition to impressive gains in new listings, including IPOs, closed-end funds and ETFs. Average daily volumes of 3.1 billion shares handled on NYSE Group resulted in year-over-year gains of 22.8% while more than 28 million transactions were recorded on Euronext cash markets in July 2007, up 87.9% year-on-year. Liffe registered its busiest July ever, with trading up 41.1% from a year-ago. Equity options total volume on NYSE Arca Options increased more than 56% year-over-year, while average daily volume in July improved by 84% year-on-year.

Few companies rigorously track their innovation efforts from start to finish. And even those that acknowledge innovation measurement is important admit they’re not doing it as well as they should be. Those are key findings in a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Measuring Innovation 2007.

CCID Consulting Co., report of china’s mobile phone market show that 71.478 million homemade mobile phone sets were sold in China in the first half of 2007, generating 84.58 billion Yuan of revenue, up 25.5% and 5.5% year-on-year, respectively.

Business stops when email dies. Deadlines are missed, orders aren't processed, communication halts – at stake is the company's reputation, financial performance and, ultimately, business success. Despite the impact, organizations continue to accept business interruptions frequently, on average close to twice a month for unplanned outages. Add to this that most companies rely upon users to notify them when email is down and the situation gets even worse.