With penetration at only 8%, e-commerce penetration into retail will come in breadth (more categories) and depth (increase in spend in existing e-tail categories) driving a tidal wave of new opportunities for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

FORBES: New Rules For E-Commerce

But at long last, the time has come, and Notch announced on his blog that the game would e shifting into Beta, with a few new tweaks and improvements for the game being rolled out.

FORBES: Minecraft Flips the Switch from Alpha to Beta

Google will still stay a search and software company at its core, Steinberg and Parr believe, but the move into e-commerce is a sign of bigger things to come.

CNN: Google creates buzz with wireless store

Experts have come up with all sorts of hypothetical ways the E. coli could have gotten into the spinach, from manure that wasn't properly composted to runoff from cattle farms to contaminated irrigation water.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 was passed before the Internet and other electronic tools like e-mail, social networks and wireless phone networks had been invented or come into common use, the coalition of Internet companies and privacy advocacy groups said Tuesday.

FORBES: Internet giants and civil liberties groups unite in opposition to warrantless police searches

As I have written, this gift-giving service is a move by Facebook into the e-commerce market, and likely a sign of more e-commerce moves to come.

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