The 11 Main marketplace that Alibaba launched in the U.S. this year is launching a major promotion in which it will cover shipping costs up to $5 per shipment on all orders provided they are sent via USPS. Since many Read more
eBay’s announcement on Monday that “Marc Andreessen has decided to resign from the company’s board of directors” appears carefully worded lest anyone think the board had ousted him. The distinction is important since eBay shareholder and activist investor Carl Icahn Read more
President Obama on Friday unveiled a series of steps aimed at improving the security of credit- and debit-card payments, including a pledge to shift government transactions over to the PIN and chip system and commitments from major retailers and credit Read more
eBay is running a sweepstakes through the month of October called the Level Up Challenge. “Now when you buy, list, and sell items on eBay, you could win big prizes – like an iPad Air tablet, Beats Headphones, an Xbox Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion for private (casual) sellers in the UK, however, you must receive an invitation in order to participate. In the meantime, U.S. sellers have through the end of Tuesday to participate in an auction-only promotion Read more
Thanks to a new security vulnerability widely publicized last week, eBay announced it would restrict access to its site through older versions of web browsers. That could cause problems for some shoppers and sellers. That’s particularly unwelcome news following the Read more
Google already possesses a powerful advertising engine, one that has driven the company to billions of dollars in revenue. The company also has ongoing aspirations toward the ecommerce side of business and recently provided some upgrades to their shopping and Read more
It may have seemed like a joke when eBay CEO John Donahoe told BusinessWeek that excess capacity in newspaper trucks could make same-day delivery economical. But one major rival is taking the concept seriously. Amazon is using the same logistics network that Read more
Many gift-givers turn to Amazon.com to help them with their shopping, and it will take an extra 80,000 workers to satisfy the increased holiday demand. Amazon announced this week it would hire that many seasonal workers to staff its U.S. Read more
One year after making a radical change to its policy around what constitutes “handmade” on craft-and-vintage goods website Etsy, its CEO discussed the changes on the Etsy blog. In October 2013, Etsy broadened its Handmade category to include sellers who used employees Read more
