As a result e-tailing is evolving into a knockoff of traditional retailing, with many of the same middlemen taking their cut.

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The principal danger for people living near Jaduguda, say environmentalists, is a 40-hectare "tailing" pond used to hold liquid and solid waste produced in the processing of the ore into yellow cake.

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They had everyone and it was only a matter of time before it was a wrap for the whole e-tailing game.

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Since e-tailing is still such a minor, not to mention mysterious, business, banks don't care to upgrade.

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The e-tailing business is by nature a low margin business.

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RVs can be invaluable in emergencies--from high-tailing it out of harms way during a hurricane or tornado to setting up shop in your driveway during a power outage, like many on the East Coast did during the blackout of August 2003.

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Gift cards, in short, are a fundamentally bricks-and-mortar focused business in an e-tailing world.

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Thanks to the convergence of mobile devices, big data and new innovations in retail tech, we can see commerce transform before our very eyes: retailing becomes e-tailing, trying on becomes testing and expansion becomes buying a new domain name.

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