The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts issued a press release on Thursday announcing the sentencing of a former eBay contractor. The seventh defendant, former eBay security executive and former Santa Clara Police Captain Brian Gilbert, is awaiting Read more
Mercari is giving people an incentive to list items on its site through a holiday listing event and other promotions. It will offer coupons to new and existing customers who list items for sale between November 6 through November 13, Read more
Facebook updated its self-serve advertising terms to give itself greater leeway in running tests on all aspects of the ads run on its network. The new terms take effect in January and spell out Facebook’s rights to run tests to Read more
Amazon introduced a tool last fall called Product Opportunity Explorer in beta, and it made it available to all sellers in June. The idea behind it is to point Amazon’s army of sellers to ways they can fill unmet customer Read more
If the goal of the Amazon Prime Early Access Sale was to get shoppers to go bargain hunting for holiday gifts early this year, it may have been a success. Amazon said “tens of millions” of Prime members shopped during Read more
In some cases, shoppers searching Google can buy items from Etsy sellers without ever visiting the Etsy website thanks to the Google Partner Checkout program. Etsy told sellers on Friday that listings selected for its Etsy Offsite Ads program may Read more
Visa launched a new solution designed to help content creators get faster access to their funds and accept donations and tips from their audiences. The Visa Ready Creator Commerce program is a solution for platforms that host creators. “Through the Read more
It may feel like everything is more expensive than it was a year ago, but data from Adobe shows there’s a big difference between the cost of essential goods versus nonessential items compared to last year. Overall, the Adobe Digital Read more
Amazon is extending its experiment in which it provided buyers the option of selecting UPS when sending returns back to sellers. Initially the temporary policy was to run from September 5 through October 2, 2022. On Wednesday, it announced it Read more
Ecommerce platform Shopify launched a tool to help merchants manage their sales-tax collection obligations – and the company said it was just the beginning. Its long-term goal is to build a complete end-to-end sales-tax solution for sellers. A spokesperson for Read more
