Rakuten Shopping (formerly Buy.com) has revealed the finalists for its 2013 Shop of the Year Awards. Each year, the Shop of the Year Awards recognize the Rakuten.com marketplace’s most successful and pioneering merchants in several categories as well as two Read more
Etsy will retire two search options, the “list view” and the Market Research Tool. The company announced on Thursday that it would stop supporting the two options effective January 23rd. “By consolidating search to one view, we can provide a Read more
In a potentially major blow to eBay, Amazon and other ecommerce and Web companies, a U.S. appellate court has struck down a set of rules that had barred Internet service providers from playing favorites with the online traffic passing over Read more
These days, widgets are out of style – at eBay, at least. The online marketplace is retiring some tools that allowed people to display listings on their own websites or blogs. eBay announced the deprecation of four such tools on Read more
As cofounder of social networking site Twitter and of payments service Square, Jack Dorsey is at the intersection of social and commerce. After his presentation at the National Retail Federation (NRF)’s Big Show conference in New York on Wednesday, Dorsey Read more
eBay lost the head of one of its most important subsidiaries, eBay Enterprise, which has been wooing large retailers and brands to its technology platform through a number of new initiatives. News of the departure came as the National Retail Read more
eBay UK has made changes to its User Agreement and eBay Privacy Policy. These are effective immediately for new members, and take effect on February 17, 2014 for current members. eBay provided a summary of the main changes for UK Read more
Etsy has a large community of buyers and sellers who network online, and it also has a large grassroots presence in local communities. That’s thanks in part to Etsy teams a community feature where users can connect with other members. Shoppers can Read more
The visual appeal of the internet impacted users as sites opted to make images an even greater part of their layout. The grid-like dominant display of Pinterest, for example, now has its look and feel imitated in a lot of Read more
Each January we ask a panel of industry experts about the challenges and opportunities they see for online sellers in the New Year. This year, we began by asking some online sellers for their perspective – links to the first Read more
