In the United States, we are No. 1 in personalized home pages, mail, music, news, sports, shopping and travel.
Taking a close look at your spending habits will probably highlight some other things you can cut back on: shopping, subscriptions, travel.
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Gomez Advisors, in Massachusetts, assesses the performance of e-commerce websites in areas such as personal finance, travel, shopping, car buying and auctions.
Imagine the endless shopping sprees, extensive travel opportunities and elaborate parties.
It will extend a portfolio of online services including social networking updates, movies, magazines, shopping and information about travel, to planes that are equipped with Gogo Wi-Fi.
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By not setting aside an adequate advertising budget to promote travel and shopping in Northumberland to the Scots, the county may miss out on this golden opportunity.
We could build Internet-like services on education, commerce, travel, shopping.
Developers can integrate the service by simply adding one line of code, making it ideal for social, travel and shopping apps, or any other app or website that includes points of interest, places or addresses.
Google has been accused in both Europe and the United States of using its dominant position in search to unfairly promote its own products and services -- from travel and shopping comparison engines to advertising and mapping.
Hong Kong's government was the first one to put a limit on purchases, not surprisingly given its proximity to China and the number of Chinese that travel there for shopping.
The Centurion card offers a wide array of benefits, including concierge services, luxury travel, dining, shopping and special events.
Ms. MICHELE SHANNON (Senior Director of Product Development, Websense, Inc.): What a lot of companies will do is they'll say, I'll allow you to go to your travel sites or your shopping sites, but what I don't want you to do is spend all day dong it.
The difference is that the vertical engine drills down and down into the data and provides an ordered experience: say, on travel, or certain kinds of shopping.
We went to the shopping mall, and called the airlines to book travel.
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"A promenade along Canal Street the dividing line between the French and American districts is a must: it boasts some of the best shopping in the United States, " says BBC Travel.
The world of leisure travel has brought a growing trend to light: Shopping Tourism.
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Credit cards are useful tools in several situations, like booking travel, paying for gas at the pump and shopping online.
Yet the opportunity is immense: According to research from Statista, consumers travel to six stores for the majority of their shopping needs.
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"Europeans are usually more concerned with quality hotel accommodations, good food and one-of-a-kind shopping, " says Chrismar Kuhn, a Basel-based luxury travel agent and fan of Sylt, a German North Sea island.
Sadly, there's no indication these X10s will have anything other than the dusty Android 1.6-based platform they've been running everywhere since their global launch, so get ready to travel back in time if you end up cross-shopping this with the Captivate.
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Travel on this canal for designer (and knockoff) shopping at Siam Square and visit the Jim Thompson House, the beautiful teak museum home of an American silk trader, and other central Bangkok sites such as the Bo Bae wholesale clothing market or the hip Thonglor neighbourhood, full of boutiques and cafes.
Shopping trips to European countries before September have mostly been booked out through major travel agencies in large east China cities where demand is highest.
Careplane, a web browser plug-in, calculates emissions as you search supported travel sites such as Kayak and Orbitz, allowing for quick carbon comparison shopping.
Chinese consumers today are also more progressive than their parents and "have had greater opportunities to travel internationally and are knowledgeable about brands, good customer service and inviting shopping environments, " Mr. Kirwan said.
The app Image It lets you quickly look up travel-relevant pictographs, such as a drawing of a stamp to indicate you want to buy one to mail a postcard, from an array of travel-related topics, from food to transport and medical emergency to shopping.
Others include Lukasz Gadowski, founder of Spreadshirt, a shopping site, and Brent Hoberman, co-founder of lastminute.com, a travel site, who is a partner in PROfounders, an early-stage investment firm.
Zachary Conen, senior vice president of sales and marketing at LRA Worldwide, a mystery shopping firm based in Pennsylvania, says they maintain a stable of 120 full time consultants who travel 42 weeks out of the year.
China's Internet is sprouting travel sites and numerous bookstores, Hong Kong's two major grocery chains offer Internet shopping, Singapore and Thailand sport online department stores.
On the bleeding edge of a global outbreak would be travel-related companies such as hotels and airlines, restaurants, mass transportation and nonessential retail shopping.
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