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Amazon has pretty much set the bar for online shopping, especially if you’re a Prime member.  Click, order, and a couple of days later, you have a box with your items.  It works great.  So great that other retailers have had no choice but to offer online...

Editorial image from Tamara Mellon featuring Dree Hemingway Apparel and accessories label Tamara Mellon is taking control of its consumers’ shopping experience with a redesigned Web site that mixes content and commerce. Since its launch in November...

As a Fulbright grantee, I spent part of the last year researching the sharing economy in Seoul. One of my main findings? Korea actually has two. The first is small-scale, hyper local and socialist in flavor. This first “sharing Seoul” is largely supported...

Twitter just can’t seem to let go of Vine. The company announced last fall it would close the video-sharing community site and its accompanying mobile applications, which it then did just days ago. But it also has taken several steps to ensure that the...

Image via   This week has been all over the place. After returning from my cousin’s funeral in Oregon on Monday night with a good dose of jet lag and more emotions than I knew how to handle, I had some major catch up to do. Tuesday was spent...