Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Australia in the second half of 2018, presumably in time for the holidays. Amazon opened its first Australian fulfillment center in Melbourne in December of 2017. A second warehouse brings Amazon closer Read more
eBay notified users today that it’s updating its privacy notice. The new notice takes effect on May 25th. Announcement follows: At eBay, we are updating our User Privacy Notice to reflect changes we’ve made to strengthen your privacy rights. This Read more
eBay renewed its partnership with Pitney Bowes to continue powering eBay’s Global Shipping program that is meant to make things easier for sellers selling internationally and more transparent for international buyers. Sellers send GSP orders to a domestic address where Read more
You can now expand your audience on OfferUp to national shoppers – the mobile classifieds app is adding shipping capability. While Craigslist is local-only and Mercari is shipping-only, OfferUp now offers both options. You can meet a buyer locally and Read more
Amazon will create 2,000 jobs in Boston in the fields of machine learning, speech science, cloud computing, and robotics engineering as it gets ready to expand its Tech Hub in the city, one of over a dozen such hubs nationwide. Read more
PayPal said it converts shoppers into buyers better than other payment methods citing recent research. A comScore study found PayPal Checkout converts at 88.7 percent, which was 82 percent higher than a checkout without PayPal (including other digital wallets and Read more
Etsy added a new feature to its store-hosting service called Pattern: it now allows sellers to display their Etsy reviews on their Pattern-hosted stores, though sellers reported problems utilizing the new feature. Pattern launched with limited features – Pattern stores Read more
Amazon called its advertising business a bright spot from both a product standpoint and also financially. Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky made the remark when talking to analysts after reporting the company’s first-quarter performance on Thursday. Olsavsky called advertising Read more
eBay is now accepting applications for the third annual SHINE Small Business Awards. This year, eBay has a “Click-and-Mortar Business Owner” category (“A small business owner who sells both on eBay and from a physical retail location”). eBay is accepting Read more
eBay said 18% of all sellers surveyed said they owned or managed a physical storefront. The survey was conducted as part of a program called eBay Expressions that helps influence eBay design and functionality. eBay also found over half (53%) Read more
