The Malaysian Digital Association (MDA) has released the top 25 visited Malaysian websites in the country in 2010. Mudah.my is the top classifieds website, followed by lowyat.net at number two and The Star Online at number three. I have been following such online traffic trends for the past few years, which I think it’s crucial […]

Chinese New Year is here soon and within this month, I have been putting the home in order like crazy. Because I am a lazy daughter, I hardly do any heavy housework throughout the year and try to do everything at the end of the year instead. Of course, it never works and I feel […]

eBay collected data for most bought items for the year 2010, from January 1 to December 19, 2010 and came out with this list of hot items at the marketplace, with Apple iPhone 4 leading with a total of 1.6 million items sold. Not all are Apple iPhone 4, mind you, as the figure also […]

As mentioned, it is going to be a tougher year for online sellers, large and small, when payment services are forced to report income from online sales of their customers to the IRS. I have spoken to a number of my friends who are in the business of selling online and they say that although […]

I read on Auction Bytes that 76% or two-thirds of American adults hold active PayPal accounts. That’s a huge penetration of the market by PayPal but that’s really not surprising because PayPal is just so convenient. Moreover, PayPal is one of the most popular online payment gateways for international users, many who use PayPal because […]

From my numerous visits to hospital these past few months to accompany my mother to meet her doctors’ appointments, I came across many patients with various diseases. I get to talk to them while my mother is busy, and it’s quite scary to know that while some came to the hospital looking for a cure, […]

This is bad. Beginning 2011, payment providers are required to report to the IRS transactions of online merchants who reach 200 payments or US$20,000 in gross sales volume in the year. It is bad because gross sales volume does not reflect our true profit and no way is it possible to tell the IRS that […]