Ecommerce Industry News
eBay expanded its Retail Revival program to Yaroslavl, Russia, it announced on Friday. eBay is helping small businesses in the city learn to export through a program called Export Revival. eBay, PayPal, and the Russian […]
You can sell products in Etsy’s Handmade category without ever making, touching, or shipping the items, and now it’s even easier thanks to an integration with Shapeways, a company that manufactures and ships 3-D printed […]
eBay CEO Devin Wenig wrote his annual letter to shareholders today. We break it down in the EcommerceBytes Blog, and the fulltext of the letter follows: To Our Stockholders,The past year has brought remarkable challenges […]
Craigslist still has a reputation as a free online classifieds site, but as many serious sellers know, it now charges fees for certain types of listings and for business sellers, which it refers to as […]
Amazon is giving away some translated foreign-language ebooks “in hopes of showing more readers the joys of translated text,” explaining its reasoning as follows: “The translation of literature plays a vital role in global entertainment, […]
Some states have targeted online sellers for marketplace service fees, and today, Amazon followed up with more details after sending an email to sellers last week. Here’s a link to our initial coverage in the […]
eBay is promoting certain sellers through a collaboration with Record Store Day, which is a coalition of independent brick-and-mortar record-store owners. In today’s announcement, eBay wrote, “Shop independent brick-and-mortar stores through Record Store Day’s Authorized […]
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Amazon announced this week that it created over 3,200 new permanent jobs across Spain in 2018 alone. It ended 2017 with 1,600 permanent employees, and now has 4,800 permanent employees. Amazon also revealed it has […]
It appears more robots will be joining Amazon fulfillment centers. TechCrunch reported today that Amazon acquired robotics firm Canvas Technology. You can see its robots in action in a TechCrunch video from 2017 showing an […]