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Gap Inc, a US apparel brand, opened its online store on China’s largest ecommerce market Taobao this week in a move to achieve savvy Chinese shoppers of a moderate income group.

Gap opened its store on Taobao Mall, in addition to such brands as Adidas AG, Levi Strauss & Co and Japan's Uniqlo, Taobao said in a statement.

In the course of a recent research it was found that a bug in the Apple iTunes service allows third parties to access private information about users such as what music, videos and apps they have purchased from the store.

Amazon, eBay and Google are making purchases in a move to boost their sales with the help of new market niches. The Internet giants are investing in local services to cater local shoppers and stores.

Thus, the world’s largest online retailer Amazon plans to $175 million in online coupon company LivingSocial, while e-commerce giant eBay is buying Milo.com, which lets users see if items they seek are available on local store shelves.

Amazon is collecting fees for taking free books from Project Gutenberg at the online store for its Kindle e-reader. While Amazon itself does not repurpose Gutenberg texts, it is done by "publishers" using the company's self-service platform. What is more, Amazon takes a cut of the proceeds from the sale.

82 websites that sell counterfeit or pirated goods were seized by the US prosecutors this week in the coordinated law enforcement effort, known as "Operation In Our Sites II” timed with the start of the online holiday shopping season.

"As of today -- what is known as 'Cyber Monday' and billed as the busiest online shopping day of the year -- anyone attempting to access one of these websites using its domain name will no longer be able to make a purchase," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters.

Amazon withdrew an e-book about pedophilia from its online store after complaints and a boycott threat as reported by many media sources.

The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct," by Philip R. Greaves II, was posted for sale on October 28 and cost $4.79 to download, the reports said.

While initially Amazon tried to defend the book in a statement later it was forced to pull it from the store as a campaign against it was started on the Internet via Twitter, Facebook and other websites.

Students in China who take GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) exams can now purchase from the mba.com store, the official supplier of test-preparation material for the GMAT, using Chinese third-party online payment solution Alipay.

Being based on a third-party model Alipay allows people to confirm that they are satisfied with a purchase before releasing payment to the merchant. In addition to Alipay, people in China can use major credit cards to make purchases from the mba.com store.

As soon as users encountered problems with the signal on their new iPhones 4 and reported their complaints Apple made recommendations on the right holding of the handset and also advised to cover the phone with a case. And as Apple delays shipments of its own “bumper” casing sellers on eBay found a good way to capitalize on the stir.

"Avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases," Apple said in a statement last Thursday.

European Commission was approached by the global ecommerce leader eBay who urged the regulators that the requirement for the Internet retailers to have brick-and-mortar shops would have damaging effect on small businesses and result in high prices while halting ecommerce activity.

WebMoney Transfer payment system reported a sharp increase in the number of its users by 2010. The number of registrations rose to 10 million. A year ago the number was under 7 million.

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