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Shopping is turning on its head. A PwC report found that online shopping is now the norm, with a record 53% of Australians shopping online. A PayPal commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting predicts that Australian online retail is set to reach $31.7 billion this year, making an irreversible impact on Australia’s retail landscape.
Last week, Steven Liew, eBay Inc. Associate General Counsel, addressed the Communication Literacy Seminar in Singapore on the topic of “Encouraging Responsible Behaviour in the Digital World”.
According to a nationwide survey of small business owners by the American Sustainable Business Council, Main Street Alliance and Small Business Majority, many small business owners think big corporations and wealthy individuals do not pay their fair share of taxes.
The Internet Association — the new group focused on protecting Internet freedom, whose members include Amazon, AOL, eBay, Expedia, Facebook and Google, among others, has joined up with Reddit on “Internet 2012."
Jeff Clementz, Vice President of PayPal Australia will be one of 40 CEO’s and attendees across Australia participating in the Prime Minister’s Digital Economy Forum on October 5, 2012.
NetChoice has published their Fall 2012 iAWFUL list, or Internet Advocates' Watchlist for Ugly Laws. Topping the list is the collection of Federal Internet Sales Tax bills which they say "would impose new tax burdens on online and catalog sellers while taking away states’ sovereign right to protect their businesses from out-of-state tax collectors."
In conjunction with TechNet, eBay Government Relations recently hosted three candidates for the California State Assembly at eBay’s San Jose campus.
As the only corporate representative on the scene, Nick Staheyeff joined WTO Director General Pascal Lamy, the Trade Minister of UAE, former President of Switzerland and a Chilean senator, in opening the WTO 2012 Public Forum.
Do policies match these new opportunities and challenges? That question was the starting point for Trade Minister Björling’s opening remarks at eBay Inc.’s Think 3.0 seminar in Stockholm on September 20, 2012.
On September 18, 2012, eBay Inc., along with several other tech industry leaders, hosted and presented at an Intellectual Property (IP) & Cybersecurity event in Hanoi, Vietnam.