Cyber Monday shopping through desktops was up 17% over last year and was the only day to ever surpass $2 billion in sales, according to comScore. The holiday season as a whole is up 16% over the corresponding period last year. Read more
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said the company has a succession plan (“for me and all of our senior executives”), but clearly from this Geekwire article, he’s having too much fun as CEO to get people thinking there is anything imminent in Read more
Is eBay founder Pierre Omidyar “the consummate passive-aggressive predator”? That’s what Pando Daily called him in an article that takes a harsh look at the role the eBay chairman played in eBay’s acquisition of a stake in Craigslist and the way eBay Read more
It can feel risky to accept orders from overseas buyers thanks in great part to language barriers and untested postal systems, so it’s not surprising that there are many countries to which online sellers would rather avoid shipping packages. But Read more
