Ecommerce has come a long way since the 1990s – consider that Demandware, a company that supports online merchants, announced last week that it will be acquired for nearly $3 billion. Demandware isn’t alone in offering solutions to multichannel merchants, Read more
A company that helps big brands monitor pricing compliance has been sold. Market Track acquired Channel IQ for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced on Thursday. Headquartered in Chicago, Market Trackprovides subscription-based advertising, promotions, ecommerce and pricing intelligence solutions. Clients use Read more
Your emails may not be getting into the hands of your customers, and one email service provider has a new approach to trying to attack the problem. Return Path launched a new Deliverability Wizard as part of its “next generation” Read more
Which marketplace does a better job of protecting sellers from “bad” buyers, eBay or Amazon? The latter, by a wide margin, according to an informal poll conducted via SurveyMonkey. We asked the online sellers to answer the question through an Read more
PayPal hired former District Attorney and American Express executive Aaron Karczmer to become its Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer. Karczmer held a number of roles at the New York County District Attorney’s office including Assistant District Attorney and Unit Read more
Add Vermont to the list of states trying to put the burden of sales tax onto out-of-state sellers instead of on their residents who shop online. The state apparently wants online merchants to educate its residents about their sales use Read more
eBay is running a special promotion to attract crafters as its rivals Amazon and Etsy cater to the handmade movement. The “Save on Craft Supplies” event kicks off on June 13th, and eBay is enlisting the help of sellers to Read more
eBay UK is running a month-long promotion for casual sellers – those who are registered as private, not business, sellers. The promotion kicked off on June 1st and runs through the end of the month. Sellers who were invited to Read more
eBay is running an unusual kind promotion in the month of June. Rather than offer free listings, it’s capping commission fees, called Final Value Fees; some receive an invitation for fees capped at $20, others capped at $50. “An INCREDIBLE Read more
Amazon will open two more fulfillment centers in Illinois, this time in Edwardsville. Both fulfillment centers will span more than 700,000 square-feet each where employees will pick, pack and ship items for customers. One of the buildings will specialize in Read more
