Online shoppers have spent $37.8 billion from their desktop computers for the first 45 days of the November-December 2013 holiday season, according to comScore, which said strong weekends helped online spending exceed expectations. For the first time ever, the most Read more
eBay launched a new category called Digital Comics, but it’s not as groundbreaking a development as it sounds. eBay doesn’t actually sell digital comics on its site (nor can its sellers) – you must go to another site to purchase Read more
What if Amazon opened up its third-party marketplace to retailers’ in-store inventory? That’s exactly what eBay is attempting to do with the help of its acquisition of Milo, and a new report from Wall Street analysts says that may be Read more
Merchants in the U.S. do a lot of importing of goods from other countries to sell online, but how much shopping do international buyers do on U.S. websites? Statistics from Borderfree suggest it’s growing at a fast pace thanks to Read more
When he wasn’t lofting kites into stormy skies, Benjamin Franklin was requoting memorable lines from Hamlet like “neither a borrower nor a lender be.” It’s advice the parties embroiled in a legal kerfuffle over the usage of an eBay and Read more
It’s no secret eBay is obsessed with mobile, and its PayPal payments unit just picked up another team of mobile developers – StackMob developed a platform that lets developers and companies easily create and manage mobile applications. According to StackMob’s Read more
Social networking site Facebook announced Tuesday it will offer video ads in its news feeds after having Facebook discussed video ads in October 2013, as they suggested a couple of ways to take advantage of video in Facebook’s mobile app. In its Read more
FedEx introduced a new product called One Rate that offers a flat-rate shipping option (see our coverage here). If you sell (or buy) on eBay, you might have seen the ads for FedEx One Rate as you browse the site. Is Read more
Terapeak is making its MySales research tool for eBay, Amazon and Magento merchants available for free and added features to the tool including an eBay hot list. Terapeak has also improved its tool for Amazon merchants so they can research Read more
First there was Black Friday. Then Cyber Monday. Based on the incentives being offered by Amazon, all of us who worked that long weekend anticipated a mass confusion of pickers and stowers fighting for space in the long aisles of Read more
