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Following the last blog on Google Wallet I thought it important to talk about, something else new for online shoppers and companies with ecommerce websites.

eBay has unveiled PayPal Access, a new web payment service that could replace all the others on the market. The growth of ecommerce business websites has been notable, and their number continues to rise, and PayPal is part of this picture (but not all of it).

It is important, as an online retailer, to offer secure online shopping, and what eBay is proposing with PayPal Access is a payment service that can be used …

This time of year is boom time for online retailers as Christmas shopping starts in earnest and more and more people decide to do their purchasing online. And, I think the boom could be bigger than expected this year thanks to the snow.

We’ve already had one so-called Cyber Monday, during which Visa Europe expected to see spending of £265 million on its cards, while Play.com and eBay believe 6 December will be another record day of spending.

Play.com is expecting 1,200 orders to be placed per minute, while eBay is preparing itself for 5.4 million shoppers to log in …

So, England are back to winning ways after an unconvincing defeat of Hungary. I have to say that seeing England again immediately brought back memories of the routing by Germany and the pain of that disallowed goal (I still believe that the game would have been different).

Other sports, such as tennis and cricket, use video technology, so it seems time that football, or specifically FIFA, does the same. Such technology is provided by a number of companies, including, reassuringly, Swiss watchmaker Longines. This rather tenuously brings me to Max Watches.

Max Watches is one of the leading wholesalers of …

So is it still possible to make money during these troubled times? The answer to this my padawans is most definitely, affirmative.

Even in the middle of the credit crunch, in fact even more so now than in previous years, it is still possible to reel in the cash as a result of paid online advertising. But there are some ifs and buts that go hand in hand with this wise offering.

Picture the scene, “Not so long ago in a galaxy remarkably close to this one actually… 16 million households had access to the Internet and 95% were using …