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"The cloud" sounds like a nebulous other-world without definition or structure, but the reality is quite different. Moving your small business to the cloud can save you time, energy, and money, all while improving communication and collaboration among your team. Check out six specific benefits of taking the leap with your small business.

Mobile platforms combined to account for 60 percent of total digital media time spent, up from 50 percent a year ago. And perhaps more impressively, mobile apps accounted for more than half of all digital media time spent in May (51 percent), reinforcing the notion that as consumers turn to mobile, so must consumer goods companies.

IDC Retail Insights releases the results of its 2013 Annual Shopper survey, revealing that nearly two-thirds of consumers worry they don't have enough control over what retailers can know about them. Here are some more of the green lights and bright red lines retailers should abide when it comes to consumer dispositions on this topic of hot debate.

Kwikee launches a new vendor portal for retailers and manufacturers to more efficiently communicate and fulfill requests for product images and data needed for e-commerce and other marketing applications.

Walmart works with Wild Oats to re-launch its brand and aims to save customers 25 percent or more on organic groceries.

The company appoints Kimberly Aylward to the newly created position of General Manager of Direct-to-Consumer Gifting, where she will oversee e-commerce sales and brand marketing efforts.

eBay, Google and Walmart have endorsed a new GS1 US guide that helps businesses improve e-commerce by resolving incorrect and duplicate product information online.

CGT Executive Editor Alliston Ackerman gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.