Ecommerce Industry News
PayPal is putting its recent acquisition of Paydiant to use. Soon you’ll be able to pay for a “footlong” submarine sandwich at Subway using PayPal on your mobile phone or through the restaurant’s website. Paydiant […]
Visa has made a strategic investment in Stripe, a service that has been adopted by many popular ecommerce hosting services as a payment method for merchants. Stripe, founded by brothers from rural Ireland, has raised […]
Ecommerce platform Tictail just raised $22 million. If you hadn’t heard of the company before, it’s likely because the Swedish-based company is more popular in Europe. The company describes itself as a “free-to-use DIY ecommerce […]
The former president of eBay Marketplaces Lorrie Norrington has been named advisor to a European online auction site. Catawiki, based in The Netherlands, announced on Thursday it raised $82 million from investors following a Series […]
Online sellers may be interested to learn about a new television series will focus on consumer fraud and postal crime. “The Inspectors” will air on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. on CBS beginning October 3rd and […]
Delcampe is launching a new website that will be better optimized for mobile devices and will be more search-engine friendly. New features include an improved search engine and better automatic management of transactions between sellers […]
The world’s biggest online shopping day isn’t Black Friday or Cyber Monday – it’s Singles Day in China. PayPal is advising merchants to prepare now if they want to take advantage of the holiday that […]
The eBay discussion boards contain many reports of a drop in sales by individual sellers – unfortunately, eBay took away sellers’ ability to track traffic, so it’s difficult to pinpoint the root causes of the […]
Facebook, which already offers Buy buttons on ads, told a news outlet it is bringing shopping to business pages. Facebook is testing Buy buttons that will enable shoppers to complete purchases without leaving the social networking site. […]
While researchers, shipping carriers and postal services may be thinking about drones, it seems ecommerce company Amazon may do more to make commercial and non-commercial drone flight in the U.S. a reality. Amazon Prime Air […]