What is the link between a Canadian silver and copper mine, Paris France, Iran, and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore? They all have a connection with a young gentleman named Pierre Omidyar, a self-made billionaire with a net worth of $13.1 billion, as of January 2019. Who are we talking about? Of course the founder of eBay, a company which has rapidly grown into one of the top...

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Online Shopping Trends

It may seem hard to believe that online shopping, something which we now tend to take for granted, simply did not exist. Just 25 short years ago, in 1994, due to the advent of more secure interactive web pages, the first product a “Sting” album with the name of “Ten Summoner’s Tales” was sold online. Other pro...

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Thanksgiving and the Birth of a Nation

Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching. A celebration held throughout the world although the date the festival is held on differs from country to country.

For Americans, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and has done so on and off after George Washington, the 1st President of the United Stat...

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Halloween and Shopping

Americans will spend on average, approximately $100.00 per family this Halloween season, an incredible nationwide total of $9 billion, hence making Halloween one of the most celebrated holidays after Easter and Christmas.

!Yep! Seven in ten Americans will be endeavouring to give all those ghosts, goblins and even all those things that go bump in the night...

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Shopping online the BargainBrute way

With an estimated 210 million people shopping online in America alone, it has become clear that online shopping has come of age. With the advent of even more simplistic ways of researching online products, it will continue to increase at a rate never before envisaged.

So what are online shopping companies like Amazon ...

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