eBay’s PayPal unit has completed its acquisition of payment services firm Braintree and will begin offering PayPal as a payment option to Braintree’s merchant customers in 2014. PayPal acquired Braintree for $800 million in cash in a deal announced in Read more
Amazon’s Zappos unit topped the list of fast holiday shippers in a study conducted by Kurt Salmon and StellaService. The study analyzed shipping times for orders placed on Cyber Monday from over 50 retailers across a broad range of categories, Read more
Online sellers understand that shopping does not come to an end on December 24th. In fact, eBay said “unwanted Christmas presents” was the sixth highest search term on eBay on Christmas Day last year as shoppers went online for a deal or Read more
It took almost 2 years, but a seller who filed a class action lawsuit against eBay over its Featured Plus optional listing upgrade has reached a court-approved preliminary settlement with eBay. The company, while denying the allegations and not admitting Read more
Just a few weeks ago the Amazon fulfillment center where I work as a temporary stower was just gearing up for the first big holiday sales of the year. The entire plant now hums with the steady sound of rumbling Read more
Online shoppers have spent $37.8 billion from their desktop computers for the first 45 days of the November-December 2013 holiday season, according to comScore, which said strong weekends helped online spending exceed expectations. For the first time ever, the most Read more
eBay launched a new category called Digital Comics, but it’s not as groundbreaking a development as it sounds. eBay doesn’t actually sell digital comics on its site (nor can its sellers) – you must go to another site to purchase Read more
What if Amazon opened up its third-party marketplace to retailers’ in-store inventory? That’s exactly what eBay is attempting to do with the help of its acquisition of Milo, and a new report from Wall Street analysts says that may be Read more
Merchants in the U.S. do a lot of importing of goods from other countries to sell online, but how much shopping do international buyers do on U.S. websites? Statistics from Borderfree suggest it’s growing at a fast pace thanks to Read more
When he wasn’t lofting kites into stormy skies, Benjamin Franklin was requoting memorable lines from Hamlet like “neither a borrower nor a lender be.” It’s advice the parties embroiled in a legal kerfuffle over the usage of an eBay and Read more
