FedEx Ground will now deliver packages 6 days a week in the US on a permanent basis thanks to ecommerce and the “dramatic and consistent” rise in demand for the past 10 years. Ten years ago, the record volume day Read more
Etsy successfully moved its website to the cloud, it announced on Wednesday, along with its mobile apps. Etsy said it was done “with minimal disruption to our buyers and sellers.” Etsy had announced scheduled downtime last month without providing details, Read more
Amazon Business now reaches over $10 billion in annualized sales and serves “millions” of business customers, the company revealed on Tuesday. Amazon Business is a B2B marketplace – customers purchase items for their businesses as opposed to their households. “Our Read more
PayPal launched Funds Now, giving sellers instant access to payments from online sales. The timing is interesting as it comes as eBay begins rolling out managed payments, where sellers will have to wait for disbursements, with a lag of a Read more
A PhD candidate working as an intern at eBay shows there’s a practical side to investments in gee-whiz technology by companies like eBay. Muratcan Cicek published a blog post on Tuesday, “eBay Open-Sources Technology that Uses Head Motion to Navigate Read more
Verizon added PayPal CEO Dan Schulman to its Board of Directors effective September 6, 2018. It’s worth noting that Verizon operates Yahoo Small Business through its Oath subsidiary, though we wouldn’t read too much into that. Rather, Verizon cited his Read more
Jack Ma was a teacher in China before turning entrepreneur, but he succeeded in growing Alibaba into a global ecommerce powerhouse because he paid attention to the needs of small businesses both in his own country and around the world. Read more
eBay is offering a $5 coupon this month as part of an invitation-only promotion. It kicked off on September 5th and runs through September 27th. Some buyers who received the invitation to participate reported having problems with redeeming the coupon. Read more
In an unusual occurrence, Amazon’s search engine went haywire on Wednesday, and according to CNBC, it was followed by outages impacting the back-end system for tracking sellers’ orders and sales. Some recent shipping news struck a nerve with sellers who Read more
In the two months since eBay invited some sellers to participate in its initial launch of “managed payments” that is scheduled to begin this month, eBay has provided additional information about the program, although questions remain. eBay is taking over Read more
