Eighteen percent of online adults in the U.S. have had important personal data stolen, according to a Pew Research Center study highlighting the crisis in data protection.
Facebook is becoming prime real estate for small retailers rather than the mega-mall that the big chains had hoped it would be.
Second-quarter profits from Facebook stores were up 38 percent from the first quarter for the 180,000 small to mid-sized retailers, and have been going strong ever since, says e-commerce company Ecwid, which makes store-building software to work across social-media platforms and Web sites.