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Ebay’s latest financial reports reveal that:

over one and half million new items get listed every day
these generate almost $2.5m per day revenue
on top of this they earn about another $10m per month from third parties (advertising and other services)
they spent almost $25m in the quarter on the development of the software behind site and seller [...]

In Q4 2001, Amazon managed to save $22m in costs by tweaking its fulfillment operations. As well as the obvious fine tuning of its predictive software, it seems that one of the most effective changes was to rearrange the layout of their warehouses to make it quicker to pick goods that often get ordered together. [...]

Knowledge management isn’t just for big companies anymore … For sharing information Franey realized that old-fashioned methods are best. So she instituted a series of meetings. That’s right: meetings. Franey and her staff get together on a regular basis. That’s her “system” for knowledge management: a simple process to make sure that what one employee [...]

Proving that many people still don’t understand the Internet, the word “Google” itself gets searched for on Google 1,685,200 times a month and www.google.com gets 140,000 searches.