Amazon launched a new storefront featuring items from US sellers. With the public relations tactic, Amazon no doubt hopes to attract buyers who wish to support small US-based sellers while also appeasing lawmakers and politicians who have been scrutinizing the Read more
A lawmaker is sticking up for Amazon sellers. Senator Warren told the New York Times that Amazon should be scrutinized for potential anti-competitive behavior. The problem, as she sees it, is that Amazon amasses sales data from third-party sellers and Read more
Republican and democratic lawmakers in Congress have introduced a bill that would be a huge relief to small businesses worried about online sales tax obligations in the wake of the Supreme Court case overturning Quill. Among the provisions: a $10 Read more
What if you took the principles of running an ecommerce marketplace and applied them to a nonprofit educational operation, with the child as “customer”? Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and his wife MacKenzie, launched a philanthropic initiative called the Read more
Etsy is eliminating the position of Chief Operating Officer. Current COO Linda Kozlowski will leave the company at the end of the year to pursue other opportunities. In announcing the news, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman said, “Linda’s contributions will leave Read more
FedEx Ground will now deliver packages 6 days a week in the US on a permanent basis thanks to ecommerce and the “dramatic and consistent” rise in demand for the past 10 years. Ten years ago, the record volume day Read more
Etsy successfully moved its website to the cloud, it announced on Wednesday, along with its mobile apps. Etsy said it was done “with minimal disruption to our buyers and sellers.” Etsy had announced scheduled downtime last month without providing details, Read more
Amazon Business now reaches over $10 billion in annualized sales and serves “millions” of business customers, the company revealed on Tuesday. Amazon Business is a B2B marketplace – customers purchase items for their businesses as opposed to their households. “Our Read more
PayPal launched Funds Now, giving sellers instant access to payments from online sales. The timing is interesting as it comes as eBay begins rolling out managed payments, where sellers will have to wait for disbursements, with a lag of a Read more
A PhD candidate working as an intern at eBay shows there’s a practical side to investments in gee-whiz technology by companies like eBay. Muratcan Cicek published a blog post on Tuesday, “eBay Open-Sources Technology that Uses Head Motion to Navigate Read more
