Amazon.com announced net sales grew 20% in the second quarter to $23.18 billion, year over year – but after excluding the impact of foreign exchange, it grew sales 27%. Those are impressive numbers these days in ecommerce. Worldwide unit growth Read more
eBay is choosing to celebrate its 20th anniversary with an event for sellers rather than a special day of deals for customers, as its rival Amazon had done earlier this month with Prime Day. eBay sent invitations to sellers on Read more
Online merchants and eBay and Amazon sellers now have access to data from product-sourcing site Alibaba through Terapeak, a leading supplier of marketplace analytics with over 2.6 million users. Terapeak users can view, search and filter the top 30 million Read more
Small businesses that deliver groceries have nothing to fear from the Postal Service, it told the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) in a filing on Wednesday. The USPS began workingwith Amazon Fresh on grocery delivery last year. The PRC requested the USPS Read more
Amazon is hosting a developer day next month in San Francisco. You might recall eBay developer days and think it’s all about ecommerce, but on the surface, it’s about mobile games and entertainment apps. That’s because the event is being Read more
Some eBay users became alarmed on Wednesday when eBay required them to reset their passwords. Spokesperson Ryan Moore confirmed the issue, telling EcommerceBytes the issue impacted a small subset of users – “far less than 0.1%,” he said. We first Read more
While eBay had a lot of explaining to do in the media on Monday about its future direction following its breakup, PayPal appeared to be giddy with excitement about what it called its next chapter. And, it seems, with good Read more
On May 14th, eBay announced that longtime board member Scott Cook would be appointed to the PayPal board after the split. In a filing with the SEC this week, eBay revealed that Cook “subsequently determined that he would not join Read more
Retailers rank online marketplaces fifth for effectiveness among customer acquisition tools and allocate 16% of their digital marketing budgets to online marketplace initiatives and operations, according to a new Shop.org report conducted by Forrester Research and Bizrate Insights. Results of “The State Read more
For an ecommerce site that hasn’t even launched, Jet has received lots of media attention over the past year or so. And as the site prepares to open to the public on Tuesday, there’s even more media frenzy. Tom’s Guide explains Read more
