With an ever-increasing inventory of retail space available in America’s malls innovative companies are coming up with creative new ways of not only engaging consumers but also attracting fans.

Blogs give a lot of fast facts/information to a consumer and retailers are starting to pay attention to them. Mom blogs are especially having a large impact on the ways that retailers do business.

In the world of mass technology, there are only a few blogs out there that provide to the true needs of large retailers. Among them are StorefrontBacktalk and Shop.Org Blog, blogs that continually provide e-commerce news and give updates on current retail trends.

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While the world believed the popular Web site had achieved that lofty valuation after software giant Microsoft plunged $240 million into the company in exchange for preferred shares equal to a 1.6 percent stake, at least two separate appraisals, including one authorized by Facebook itself, tell a very different story.