Author: Ina Steiner

Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

PayPal Launches New Card Readers for In-Person Purchases

February 7, 2018 Ina Steiner

PayPal launched its PayPal Here card reader in 2012, allowing sellers to accept in-person payments by connecting the swiper to their smartphones. Today it launched new two new card readers with up-to-date technology: the Swipe reader and the Chip and Read more

Tax Season for Sellers Is Complicated by New Wrinkles

February 7, 2018February 8, 2018 Ina Steiner

Online sellers are being swept up in new confusion this year over Form 1099K as they prepare to file their income tax with the IRS and their state departments of revenue. New laws targeting income tax evaders are impacting small Read more

eBay Adds to Executive Team in Australia

February 6, 2018 Ina Steiner

eBay added two new managers to its executive team in Australia. Kristian Haigh was appointed Senior Director of B2C & Advertising, and David Ramadge re-joined the company as Senior Director of Product & Shipping. The appointments come as rival Amazon Read more

Etsy Wants to Fill Instagram with Shop Love on February 8th

February 5, 2018 Ina Steiner

Etsy wants sellers to telegram their shop love on Instagram on February 8th. Etsy is asking sellers to participate in a new Instagram marketing campaign as part of a #LoveYourShopSweeps sweepstakes. Sellers who promote their own shop and another seller’s Read more

Amazon Invests in the Czech Republic

February 5, 2018 Ina Steiner

Amazon issued a press release to tout its investments in the Czech Republic. It said it has already created over 4,500 permanent jobs in its logistics operations in Dobrovíz and corporate office in Prague-Dejvice, and in 2018, it will create Read more

eBay Tool Inkfrog Is Working to Fix Legacy Software

February 4, 2018February 5, 2018 Ina Steiner

InkFrog co-founder and CEO Greg Sisung responded to reports of a problem with its legacy software, urging customers to move to its new platform after reports came in on Ecommerce EKG about the “classic” version being inaccessible for several days. Read more

Amazon Kicks Off Small Business Training Program in UK

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 Ina Steiner

Amazon UK kicked off registration for its first Amazon Academy event of the year. The program is designed to help small businesses (SMEs) in the UK boost their exports. The first event will take place in Glasgow in April. Amazon Read more

Amazon Grows Sales 36 Percent in Fourth Quarter

February 1, 2018 Ina Steiner

Amazon grew sales 36 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 on a foreign-exchange neutral basis (that number includes all of its businesses including its AWS web-hosting business, of course). It was a profitable quarter for the company: net income Read more

eBay Tests Off-Site Shopping (Again) with New Partnership

February 1, 2018 Ina Steiner

You can shop eBay items while staying on Mashable thanks to a new partnership announced this week. eBay partnered with content site Mashable to create “shoppable” images on Mashable sites in the US and UK. eBay has tried in the Read more