Ecommerce Industry News
Online sellers are benefiting from new services and tools from third-party developers. Here’s a look at some recent developments among vendors and services in the ecommerce industry. Financing for Online Sellers (UPS and Kabbage) UPS […]
The latest Monetate Ecommerce Quarterly brought disquieting news to the ecommerce industry. Save for the booming 2014 holiday quarter, rates for conversions and adding items to carts have been in decline since the first quarter of 2014, […]
Pinterest is working with ecommerce platforms to bring buyable pins to its social networking site, and it will be using customers’ purchase history to serve up targeted ads. As a result, it is updating its […]
Angie’s List sued Amazon Local and its employees this month, accusing them of stealing proprietary information and violating its membership agreement. Both services offer a way for consumers to connect to local businesses and service […]
PayPal apologized to users over its so-called “robocall” policy on Monday and said it was updating its User Agreement. The provision gave PayPal the right to robocall or robo-text users at for any reason, from […]
Online buyers and sellers are highly suspicious of algorithms that search engines and online marketplaces use to determine the sort order of search results. A new study gives credence to their suspicions, alleging that the […]
eBay is running a free-listing promotion for private (casual) sellers in the UK. The sale is by invitation only, and invited private sellers must actively opt in in order to receive the free listings. “We […]
Amazon experienced an outage on Thursday that left sellers unable to complete tasks for well over 3 hours. The only positive aspect of the outage was that it did not appear to impact shoppers’ ability […]
A marketing campaign designed to get eBay customers re-engaged went terribly wrong recently, and shoppers are underwhelmed by eBay’s attempt to placate them after it reneged on the offer. eBay UK had sent shoppers coupons […]
eBay announced on Friday that the separation with PayPal will be completed by July 17th, and over the weekend, PayPal sent an email to customers to let them know what they could expect after it […]