Amazon announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Clear Brook, Virginia, which will create more than 1,000 full-time associate roles when opened. Amazon currently employs more than 3,500 full-time hourly associates at its three existing Virginia fulfillment centers Read more
Amazon announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire SOUQ.com, an ecommerce leader in the Middle East. Joining the Amazon family will enable SOUQ.com to continue growing while working with Amazon to bring even more products and offerings to Read more
Yahoo’s Aabaco Small Business division announced the launch of Website Builder. Plans start as low as $7 a month, but without the ecommerce capabilities of its Store offering. There’s a lot that goes into getting your new business’ site up Read more
eBay published the following announcement on its corporate blog on Monday: With 11 million new listings added via eBay’s mobile platform per week and 59% of GMV touched by mobile globally, mobile enhancements continue to be a key area of Read more
Joe Stanek published the following post on the Etsy Announcement Board on Thursday: We’re excited to announce that craft supply sellers who have at least one craft supply item listed or sold since January will be getting early access to Read more
Etsy’s Creative Entrepreneurship Program Manager Graham Ashcraft published the following post on the Etsy Seller Handbook: Last year, Etsy launched Maker Cities, a new pilot program designed to support cities in developing local creative economies. Our goal was to create Read more
ShipStation, ecommerce’s most robust and fully featured web-based shipping solution, has completed an integration with GeekSeller, a multi-channel listing and inventory management solution that allows online retailers to manage their Jet.com seller accounts. GeekSeller’s app provides Jet.com sellers with an Read more
Mirakl, the leading global marketplace solutions provider, announced the revolutionary Mirakl Marketplace Platform for Services at Shoptalk 2017. Mirakl’s platform dramatically enhances marketplaces by uniquely offering both products and services to customers in a single transaction. The solution enables multi-channel Read more
During the ShopTalk conference in Las Vegas, BigCommerce announced the general availability of Amazon Pay, providing 50,000+ businesses the ability to offer a secure, simple and streamlined checkout experience to Amazon customers worldwide. Additionally, the company announced it has joined Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig published the following post on the eBay corporate blog on Monday: As we continue to evolve eBay’s platform, we’re also activating a sharper, more clearly differentiated brand, and more. A brand new, reimagined and highly personalized Read more
