Amazon is opening a new research and development center in Barcelona next year focused on Machine Learning. Amazon is using the technology to forecast customer demand, translate product information, and in automatic speech recognition. Amazon expects to create 100 new Read more
eBay provided information about the key areas it will focus its marketing efforts on this fall, choosing to promote smartphones, fashion, Motors, and Halloween-related items. eBay advised sellers to ramp up their fourth-quarter selling by “prepping now, listing your in-demand Read more
eBay is taking additional steps to protect sellers impacted by this month’s Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, it announced on Sunday. In addition to some basic protections previously announced, eBay is taking the unprecedented steps of waiving Store fees for Read more
eBay is going to roll out a new simplified search function in the next 60 days, according to a research note published Wednesday by Mark May of Citi, who hosted eBay CEO Devin Wenig for a fireside chat that morning Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig told attendees at a Wall Street conference that additional changes are slated to roll out in the next few months. Wenig was speaking at the Citi 2017 Global Technology Conference on Wednesday morning. What caught our Read more
Etsy is rolling out a new returns policies template, and the marketplace is urging sellers to fill them out prior to the holiday shopping season. The new template is designed to make it easier to provide shoppers with the information Read more
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
