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BERLIN, GERMANY (MARKET WIRE) IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music and film industry, today announced new partners, Discograph, Forte Music Distribution, Harmonia Mundi Distribution, Cobayn and the Music Information Center Austria (MICA), have selected IODA's D3 platform to power digital distribution for their labels. These leading music distributors from France, the UK, Germany and Austria, will now offer their clients virtual shelf space at the more than 400 digital retailers, mobile outlets and subscription services that make up IODA's global

Woopra, a new Web-tracking and analysis service designed by iFusion Labs, began quietly enough. iFusion Labs CEO John Pozadzides, along with his partners, Elie Khoury and Jad Younan, launched the site at Word Camp, a convention for bloggers, in March 2008, offering memberships to 200 attendees.

It didn't take long for NetSuite to cozy up to Google. Shortly after the Web conglomerate rolled out its open source browser Chrome last month, the SaaS suite provider announced its support. Support for Chrome may prove especially intriguing for its customer base -- primarily because it is so Ajax-friendly.

Last year's online shopping season surpassed $29 billion in sales, up a full 20 percent from the previous holiday. More consumers did their shopping online than any holiday season before, due to the convenience and increasing popularity of the internet as a way to get too many things done in too little time.

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It's the final piece of the Panama pie. Will profit follow? And how quickly?

U.S. campaign is making a dent in offshore operations and folding more than a few hands of online Texas Holdem.

Longtime antique and collectibles online auctioneer Walt Kolenda offers tips for expanding beyond eBay.