Amazon published what was more of a Request for Proposal than a press release as it seeks a city in which to build a second North American headquarters. It said the new headquarters would be a full equal to Amazon’s Read more
Amazon announced its first fulfillment center in the state of New York. The new 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center will be located in Staten Island and will be used to fulfill what it called household essentials, books, and toys. Press release follows: Read more
eBay is making it harder for consignment sellers by excluding the majority of them from its new Consignment Center and promoting the few who make the cut. eBay says it doesn’t compete with its sellers, using that as a selling Read more
eBay is using image recognition technology in a new marketing campaign tied to the annual Fashion Week event where designers show off their couture. eBay create a landing page that features fashion sketches where buyers can “Shop the Look.” It’s Read more
Hal Lawton’s departure from eBay has led to some promotions internally, and this week eBay announced a change in leadership down under. Tim Mackinnon was promoted from Chief Marketing Officer to Managing Director of eBay Australia and New Zealand to Read more
AbeBooks is refunding a week’s worth of fees to sellers after a 2-day outage. The media marketplace owned by Amazon experienced a rare but serious outage over the weekend, and on Monday it sent an email to sellers with an Read more
Yahoo had built a respectable ecommerce platform called Yahoo Stores, but executives considered it expendable and nearly jettisoned the Yahoo Small Business unit after renaming it Luminate, then Aabaco. The Yahoo corporation found a different way to extract itself from Read more
eBay is encouraging its affiliates in the UK to use new creative that ties in with its Fill Your Cart with Color campaign that launched in the UK on August 26th. eBay Partner Network told UK publishers that its new Read more
Sellers impacted by Hurricane Harvey can reach out to Etsy if they need help, and it’s working with an organization to further help artists. Etsy is partnering with CERF+, a nonprofit focused exclusively on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide, to provide Read more
eBay said Thursday that its community helped raise over $600,000 to help support disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in the Texas and Louisiana region. eBay thanked sellers who are designating a portion of their sales to the Read more
