Ecommerce Industry News
Around 100 Amazon merchants were victim to a six-month hack in 2018, according to Bloomberg, which said an “extensive” fraud let thieves steal cash from the merchants’ accounts. But rather than its own system being […]
Imagine your surprise if clicking on a government website URL took you to a retailer’s website. What online seller wouldn’t like the idea of driving traffic to their site with help from the government?! That’s […]
eBay has added an authentication service in the Asian Antiques category thanks to a partnership with a service called Bidamount, operated by Peter Combs, a dealer and appraiser based in Massachusetts and owner of Plcombs. […]
Ecommerce platform BigCommerce received certification for its information security practices, a move that comes on the heels of its migration to the Google Cloud platform. A spokesperson told EcommerceBytes the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification demonstrates BigCommerce’s […]
The US Department of Justice said international criminals used eBay as part of their campaign to defraud victims. “A federal jury today convicted two Romanian nationals of 21 counts related to their scheme to infect […]
President Trump is putting ecommerce companies and shipping carriers on notice with the signing of a Presidential Memorandum on Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods today. The President called out third-party marketplaces in citing […]
Amazon launched a new program called Project Zero to help brands take down counterfeit goods on the Amazon marketplace without waiting for Amazon to investigate – “With Project Zero, brands no longer need to contact […]
Privacy advocates and those distrustful of technology were vindicated today. The title of 9to5Mac.com’s article says it all: “Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before […]
An eBay patent describes a method to reduce counterfeits for sale on its website, and if implemented, it could impact search visibility. When a seller attempts to list a particular brand, the system would match […]
A government agency took an unusual step of getting directly involved in ecommerce matters. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requested the heads of eBay and Amazon do more to prevent the sale of fake […]