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NEW YORK —Totsy, a private sales site dedicated to offering exclusive deals to parents, babies and children, announced that it has named a new chief technology officer and a new creative director. The company has appointed Richard Minns as chief technology officer. Minns brings 15 years of corporate experience in technology and e-commerce, most recently from 1800FLOWERS.com. Craig Sosonko has been named creative director. Sosonko brings more than 12 years of creative experience working with brands such as Apple, Google, CNN, Nokia, American Express, Kmart, Absolut, MTV, eBay and E*TRADE.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Popular searches on the Internet Wednesday include Google(GOOG) Previously, comments made on Facebook and other social networking sites did not show up in Google searches because search engines were unable to read Facebook's programming automatically. Now, Google will be able to read comments posted on Facebook using Facebook's Connect add-in for other Web sites. If a Facebook account holder signs into another Web site using his or her Facebook account and leaves a comment, that comment can now show up in Google searches. Comments left on Facebook alone are not yet being indexed. Lenovo is

Earlier this year, Retail Online Integration gathered together three leading video 
e-commerce experts for a conference call to discuss best practices and trends within the emerging channel that retailers need to be aware of in 2012. Joining us on the call were Justin Foster, John Lazarchic and Jon Schroeder.

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Frustrated at getting blank results pages from product keyword searches on retailers’ websites? Think it would be easier to pick out what you’re looking for from a lineup of images rather than describing it via text. Well, it appears you’re in luck.

The tracking of user activity via smartphones isn't too uncommon these days. Now, an Australian shopping center will obtain fit receivers that track shopper's locations within two meters by identifying unique mobile phone radio frequency codes.

The owner of Price Chopper supermarkets is suing the operator of ShopRite after searches for “Price Chopper” on Google and other search engines turned up ads for ShopRite. Price Chopper’s parent, Golub Corp., filed the action late last week in U.S. District Court in Albany.

The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. NEW YORK (Trefis) -- American Eagle Outfitters(AEO) We believe that this is a smart move by American Eagle as the company targets the 15- to 25-year old age group, which represents a major chunk of total smartphone users in the U.S. American Eagle Outfitters together with Aeropostale(ARO) With the number of smartphone users increasing in an exponential manner, retailers want to tap smartphones as a medium to enhance their business. According to a

Neiman Marcus is known for the outrageously beautiful and unique merchandise showcased in its annual Christmas Book. For this holiday season, Google Catalogs has collaborated with Neiman Marcus to offer you a free, browsable copy of this year’s Christmas Book.

Consumers throughout the country say that paying with your phone is a little like magic. Just look at the ecstatic reaction on the faces of our friends who made their first Google Wallet purchases on Oct. 13.