Square, best known for its online payment service, is running a promotion in order to attract holiday shoppers to its fairly new online marketplace. “Give with Character” is a campaign to encourage buyers to find gifts for their friends and Read more
Online marketplace Etsy is surveying users to find out what they wish to discuss with administrators in future Q&A chat sessions. Etsy CTO Kellan Elliot-McCrea had explained in a discussion thread on November 15th that the company spent a lot Read more
When the going gets tough, the tough get going – sometimes all the way out the door, Anonymous learns in week 5 of an assignment at an Amazon fulfillment center. As the holiday shopping season ramps up, managers urge workers Read more
eBay and Amazon are taking different approaches to shipping and delivery, as demonstrated by recent press releases issued to attract holiday shoppers. Amazon is promoting its Prime shipping program and suggests shoppers give memberships to friends and family as a Read more
The only thing that might be considered worse than a full ecommerce site outage is an outage where buyers can place orders not knowing they may never receive the items. That’s what is happening with the Alibris book and media Read more
eBay Enterprise is absorbing Magento into its business unit. Readers may well ask, “who are these companies again,” as it can be a little confusing to keep track of eBay businesses. eBay Enterprise was formerly called GSI Commerce, a company Read more
Amazon is opening its second fulfillment center in New England, this one in Windsor, Connecticut. The 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center will create more than 300 full-time jobs when it opens next year. Amazon had entered into an agreement with the state Read more
In today’s guest column, Margaret Kuchler, Director of Industry Marketing at Akamai Technologies, says studying 2012 online holiday shopping traffic can help merchants understand what to expect in 2013. The best way to anticipate holiday web traffic for the upcoming Read more
The USPS can raise the price of a stamp from 46 to 47 cents in January, but whether the agency can raise it to 49 cents has yet to be decided. On Thursday, the Postal Regulatory Committee (PRC) approved the Read more
The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that have plagued ecommerce sites of all sizes in the past may not emerge seemingly out of nowhere. Instead it has been suggested that the person interested in harming one’s online presence might Read more
