Ecommerce Industry News
eBay has a new tool to help sellers compete in the new product-based shopping experience it’s rolling out (PBSE, as eBay calls its Amazon-like catalog approach). However, it’s only available to select sellers through a […]
Facebook has two programs that small businesses can use to improve their digital marketing skills. The company made a pledge to help the US workforce in a June 8, 2018 blog post titled, “Training 1 […]
BQool launched a new chrome extension for its product-research tool BigTracker. When users search Amazon for a particular product, the BigTracker extension aggregates all of the results on a single page, displaying the Buy Box […]
For the many sellers who use WordPress to host their websites, there’s now BigCommerce for WordPress. BigCommerce launched its first “Commerce-as-a-Service” offering – meaning sellers don’t have to host their product catalog on their own […]
PayPal has acquired Jetlore, an ecommerce service that helps retailers offer personalized search results using “Predictive Ranking,” which matches each customer’s unique preferences directly to inventory in real time. The acquisition is an effort to […]
For ecommerce pros, fine-tuning their marketing provides a method of evening the playing field. But sometimes SMB sellers do a little too much. EcommerceBytes and Privy CEO Ben Jabbawy discussed the perils of potential over-optimization. […]
Adobe is acquiring ecommerce platform Magento Commerce for $1.68 billion. Magento CEO Mark Lavelle will continue to lead the Magento team as part of Adobe’s Digital Experience business. Last month, Magento Commerce launched a new […]
Amazon launched an app store to make it easier for sellers to find Amazon-approved tools to help them sell more efficiently as it also appears to be seeking tighter control of such tools offered by […]
Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg made news for the social network’s privacy practices. Prudent online sellers may be concerned about how potential customers drawn from Facebook perceive their brands. Research firm Merkle provided some […]
As Amazon finds success encroaching on Google’s territory by leveraging its marketplace as an ad platform, Google continues to play both defense and offense to take advantage of its traffic. In March, Google added Shopping […]