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...spirit. It's tasteful, ornamental and easy, and the box is pretty enough to give without wrapping paper. Pannetone is a perfect alternative to the usual holiday cakes and cookies--a fruitcake that won't seem clich. Locals who savor this Square institution have made it a top holiday seller for years...

Author: By Susan J. Marshall and Mildred M. Yuan, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: 'Tis the Season...To Shop | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...that those lumps of paper on our shelves have been sacred in this form for very long. It's less than 200 years since the arrival of the novel, and less than 100 since the average best seller came with illustrations. The brave new world of reading under construction at Xerox PARC may be only the latest step in the book's evolution. The more forms it can mutate into, the more likely it is that one of those forms will survive in an age of intensive information foraging and visual literacy. And if that form happens to be Speeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Team Xerox | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Buyers and large vendors aren't the only firms tapping these exchanges; small-business sellers also recognize the benefits. For 15 years, Gordon Clotworthy's company, the Information Refinery, based in Mahwah, N.J., has sold marketing lists to small businesses in the Northeast, finding customers through costly direct mailings and trade-magazine ads. Earlier this year, Clotworthy discovered Onvia, a Seattle-based small-business exchange with more than 60,000 suppliers across 117 services. He signed up with Onvia, and receives one to 10 requests for lists a day and contracts at least once a week to businesses around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Guy's Marketplace | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...short registration form and entered my credit-card number. Then I typed in the e-mail address of the person I wanted to receive the money and the amount I wished to send. A few mouse clicks later, my $65.10 winning bid was hurtling through cyberspace to a seller in Florida, who got an e-mail telling him my money was waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay It Forward | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Billpoint are free to payers, and Billpoint is currently running a promotion that takes $1 off all purchases made with a Visa card. PayPal actually pays you $5 to open an account and another $5 for each friend you refer. Both services make their money by charging the seller a small fixed fee and a percentage of the total dollar amount sent on each transaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pay It Forward | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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