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All businesses have sales. The periodic colonic that flushes out old stock and brings in a nice wad of cash to fund future purchases. Inboxes around the world are filled with announcements for these every day but, honestly, most of them aren't for a business as big and successful as Japanese retail …

For quite a while, there has been a strong rumour in the channel [no pun intended – Ed], that the government and/or UK courts would finally clog up a loop hole that has allowed companies to ship certain items to the Channel Islands, call it an export, claim back the …

The bigger resellers move such a huge quantity of kit, that their warehousing operations look more like production centres for jumbo jets. Periodically, they need to ‘flush the system' in order to keep things healthy. Right now, that's what Play.com is doing. On a jumbo scale. Delivering anything from A …

I received an email this morning from Play.com informing me that they have had some security issues with names and email addresses of customers being exposed. The email was delicately worded, blaming a third party marketing company used by Play.com. “We are emailing all our customers to let you know …

KitGuru spends half its time in bars and the rest passed out in the streets. Luckily, when we have our ears to the ground – that's when we heard the best rumours from a long way off. This being drunk and falling over works well. So what have we heard …