Archive for January, 2012

19 Jan

FastPivot Team Given Paid Day Off to Serve Community for MLK Day

Leadership

FastPivot’s team members had a chance to take a paid day off this past Monday to volunteer in honor of  Martin Luther King Day, and check out the good many of them did in their communities: Jennifer Boos, Project Manager: Volunteered with the Bent Creek Community Trail Improvement Project (Trash Cleanup) Her story: Living in [...]

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18 Jan

Google Goes Black to Protest Sopa and Pipa; What Are You Doing?

Leadership

Go to Google.com today and instead of seeing the familiar “Google” type in the middle of the page, you’ll see Google has a large obstructing black rectangle over it’s name. For Google, going “black” is to protest the #Pipa and #Sopa bills going through congress right now. They both could inflict serious blows to internet [...]

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17 Jan

Zappos Hack Reminder No Ecommerce 100% Safe

Yahoo! Stores

The NYTimes reported today that the famous and trusted shoe (and clothing) company, Zappos, was hacked, with 24 million customer accounts were exposed to potential identity theft, etc. This is another classic example of how hackers can strike an online company no matter how much security they purport to have in place, or how trusted [...]

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13 Jan

How Google Updates Are Destroying Some Yahoo! Internet Retailers

Ecommerce, Yahoo! Stores

By Jonathan Poston Manning the incoming calls of an ecommerce company isn’t as boring as it might sound. Sure, there are a billion technical questions that must be answered, but there’s the counseling part of it too. Yes, you heard right. Counseling. Merchants ring in distraught, desperate for a solution to looming calamity, but in [...]

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6 Jan

Great “Meeting” Try Chips in Asheville!

Conferences

Above is the photo Try Chips’s Tim (Founder) and Jackie (CEO) Schlitzer posted on Facebook after their tour stopped through Asheville to visit the FastPivot.com team in person (in 2011 FastPivot brought Try Chips’s store live on the Yahoo! platform). In the above photo, we have Tim and Jackie from Try Chips with a few [...]

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