eBay has signed an agreement to acquire Corrigon Ltd., a pioneer of visual search technologies. Corrigon helps identify objects within an image, matching both visual and textual elements to ensure that the image is recognized, correctly classified and best-matched to Read more
Shipping Easy launched a new guide to help online sellers better evaluate and leverage shipping insurance. According to the company, shipping insurance is more complicated than it needs to be and is often ignored, despite its affordability. With over 5% Read more
Ecommerce platform Shopify acquired privately held Boltmade, a product design and development consultancy based in Ontario, Canada. The acquisition will help accelerate the development of the Shopify Plus product offering. Shopify Plus offers high-growth, high-volume merchants a cloud-based, fully hosted Read more
Amazon is adding a new benefit to its Prime free-shipping membership program with the launch of Twitch Prime. The entertainment site encouraged its users to join Prime, which costs $99/year, to receive extra benefits on Twitch. Amazon acquired Twitch in Read more
Some Amazon sellers found it helpful to compensate people for writing positive reviews for their products in order to help them win the Buy Box, but Amazon is putting an end to that practice. It officially announced on Monday it Read more
eBay is running several promotions for sellers in the UK, but as usual, it is excluding business sellers from the promotions. In this promotion that kicked off on Sunday, eBay is giving invited sellers up to 100 free listings – and is Read more
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman has promoted seven executives and boasted of some accomplishments since the split with eBay last summer that he attributed to the company’s exceptional leadership. “In the past 14 months, we’ve strengthened our core technology platform, built Read more
