Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page is stepping away from the day to day operations of Google as part of a major restructuring announced on Monday. Google is vital to online merchants seeking traffic from exposure through organic and paid Read more
Google recently provided a number of updates to various parts of the company’s advertising business. One change will make it easier for small and medium sized sellers (SMB) to deliver their data feed details to the company. Listed with the Read more
The head of social shopping site Polyvore announced the pending sale of her company to Yahoo. Described as a way to “discover and shop for things you love in fashion, beauty and home decor,” the site was founded in 2007 Read more
Merchants who use Yahoo Stores to host their websites found out in January that the business unit that operates the platform would be spun off from its parent later this year. On Thursday, they learned that Yahoo Small Business (YSB) unit was Read more
Ecommerce platform Tictail just raised $22 million. If you hadn’t heard of the company before, it’s likely because the Swedish-based company is more popular in Europe. The company describes itself as a “free-to-use DIY ecommerce platform that enables independent brands Read more
Online merchants and eBay and Amazon sellers now have access to data from product-sourcing site Alibaba through Terapeak, a leading supplier of marketplace analytics with over 2.6 million users. Terapeak users can view, search and filter the top 30 million Read more
Watch out, eBay and Amazon – Google is turning into an advertising-marketplace hybrid as it brings shopping transactions directly to its search engine platform. The company is testing “Purchases on Google,” which lets retail advertisers add a Buy button to Read more
Inventory-management software firm Ecomdash has cut its entry price to $25 – half of what it had been – in order to attract smaller sellers. The company offers a web software application that automates and integrates omni-channel retailers’ inventory, sales Read more
Athletic shoes, running shoes, tennis shoes, or sneakers? As an online seller, you want shoppers to find your product in search even when they enter a term different from the one you use to describe your product. GS1 US is working to Read more
The Yelp business model connects customers to businesses with a rich feature set and a loaded phone app. But love from its users hasn’t translated into similar affection from Wall Street. Consecutive quarters of disappointing financials have business types wondering Read more
