In today’s Amazon News Brief for August 22, 2016: Amazon is seeking women business owners, couch-potatoes, and car shoppers, and what brands should know about its private-label initiatives. First up: Seattle Times takes a look at the recent Amazon Women’s Entrepreneur Conference. Read more
China’s Alipay payment service has partnered with Ingenico Group as part of an initiative designed to bring Alipay to European retailers. The idea is for European retailers to be able to cater to Chinese tourists so they can conveniently pay Read more
eBay continues to try and attract consumer sellers, and in the UK, it’s launching new services as part of that strategy, including eBay Local. The service is designed to help bring buyers and sellers together locally by enabling local search. Read more
Amazon is testing a paid customer support model. For small sellers, it may sound ridiculously expensive at $400/month, but for larger merchants, that may be a small price to pay for help to resolve problems that impact their business. Amazon Read more
Lynn Dralle is excited about eBay Stores – specifically, the highest level eBay Anchor Store – thanks to the perks she receives through the paid subscription program. That became clear during a recent phone conversation, so she agreed to tell Read more
PayPal updated its mobile app which now allows customers to login to Android devices with fingerprint authentication. The new biometric login applies to devices using the Android Marshmallow operating system, such as the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P and Samsung Galaxy Read more
Amazon announced plans for two more fulfillment centers in the UK this week, which will become its 13th and 14th centers in the country. A new fulfillment center in Tilbury, Essex, will open in 2017, and will be equipped with Read more
A tool that allowed online sellers to display feedback generated on eBay, Amazon, Etsy in one place is shutting down this weekend. We wrote about eRated.co’s widget two years ago, and in January it received a round of funding ($1.7 million) Read more
A warning to online merchants inside and outside of Canada: the country is on the brink of a disruption to domestic and international mail service due to a dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. This Read more
eBay sellers are reporting a glitch that is preventing them from listing. We heard from a seller on Thursday who wrote, “Here is one that I have not run across before. I was trying to list some items for sale Read more
