The United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union on January 31, 2020 and will no longer be a Member State of the European Union. February 1st marks a transition period that ends on December 31, 2020, which can Read more
eBay techies are working to make the site faster. Senthil Padmanabhan is a Vice President, Technical Fellow at eBay where he heads the front-end and user experience engineering across eBay’s marketplace. He took to the eBay corporate blog to publish Read more
PayPal made more inroads in China, announcing on Wednesday a partnership with UnionPay International. The companies said they will work together to accelerate the growth of their mutual networks. PayPal has committed to supporting UPI acceptance globally where PayPal is Read more
FedEx is now making residential ground deliveries on Sundays year-round, it announced on Wednesday. FedEx. Corp CEO Raj Subramaniam said the practice was started over the holiday shopping season. “Delivering seven days a week was critical to our success this Read more
In yet another eBay management move, Fergus Campbell, head of communications for eBay’s UK Gumtree classifieds business, is moving to become head of corporate communications for eBay UK. His predecessor is reported to have left eBay UK in September. Campbell Read more
ShippingEasy has released a guide to this year’s rate changes by the major carriers. UPS raised its rates on December 29th, FedEx raised its rates effective January 6th, and new USPS rates will go into effect on Sunday, January 26th. Read more
Amazon commissioned a survey that found small- and medium-sized businesses who sell on Amazon are more likely to have high growth than those that don’t sell on its marketplace. “Small businesses that sell in Amazon’s stores are 2.5 times more Read more
Amazon is making it slightly easier for sellers who use its FBA fulfillment service by easing standards for the Inventory Performance Index (IPI). This comes after stricter rules went into place on January 1st. Introduced in the fall of 2017, Read more
UPS is making it easier for online merchants to offer its shipping services in their stores. On Monday, it announced plug-ins to make UPS tools and services available within WooCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart, and Magento. The new plug-ins are part of Read more
Facebook attempted to stifle competition and use its market power to do so, according to a class action lawsuit filed by four developers on January 16, 2020, the Verge reported. And the plaintiffs are trying to force Facebook founder and Read more
