The head of social shopping site Polyvore announced the pending sale of her company to Yahoo. Described as a way to “discover and shop for things you love in fashion, beauty and home decor,” the site was founded in 2007 Read more
Merchants who use Yahoo Stores to host their websites found out in January that the business unit that operates the platform would be spun off from its parent later this year. On Thursday, they learned that Yahoo Small Business (YSB) unit was Read more
Rick Orloff spent 6 years at Apple before joining eBay last August to head security for its Marketplaces business. The hiring followed eBay’s security breach in which criminals gained unauthorized access to its corporate network and user data. The Associated Read more
Amazon has placed new restrictions on how many users can access a Prime account and is excluding businesses from the program. People pay $99 for Amazon Prime membership, and until this month, were allowed to share their account with four Read more
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 helped build the new Subway Read more
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 much funding since its founding Read more
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 platform that enables independent brands Read more
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 B investment of 10 million Read more
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 revolves around a crime-fighting team Read more
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 and buyers, the site founder Read more
