Amazon UK kicked off registration for its first Amazon Academy event of the year. The program is designed to help small businesses (SMEs) in the UK boost their exports. The first event will take place in Glasgow in April. Amazon Read more
Amazon grew sales 36 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 on a foreign-exchange neutral basis (that number includes all of its businesses including its AWS web-hosting business, of course). It was a profitable quarter for the company: net income Read more
You can shop eBay items while staying on Mashable thanks to a new partnership announced this week. eBay partnered with content site Mashable to create “shoppable” images on Mashable sites in the US and UK. eBay has tried in the Read more
eBay is no longer requiring that sellers use its own shipping label program in order to opt in to the Guaranteed Delivery program, which helps buyers find items that ship quickly and is backed up by a guarantee, as the Read more
eBay grew GMV 7 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2017 on a foreign-exchange neutral basis. Eclipsing the news was eBay’s bombshell announcement that it will become a payments intermediary, as terms of its operating agreements entered into with Read more
Volusion has integrated with Apple Pay, allowing merchants on its ecommerce platform to accept the payment method for transactions. Press release follows: Volusion, the only all-in-one e-commerce platform on the market built specifically for the needs of small businesses, today Read more
eBay issued a warning to UK sellers advising them to comply with Value Added Tax (VAT) obligations. The company said it works with the country’s tax agency HMRC on preventing tax evasion, and said it would take action against sellers Read more
Merchants who host ecommerce stores on BigCommerce now have access to image-optimization tools as part of their subscription. The Akamai Image Manager is a cloud-based solution that helps merchants by decreasing page load time, which can help with Google SEO. Read more
In 2015, some sellers were unhappy to learn that the USPS was ending standalone support for its Click-N-Ship for Business App (CNSB) and transitioning to a meter label solution in an effort to reduce fraud. Now USPS is getting rid Read more
Logistics firm Descartes is surveying merchants as part of its first annual Ecommerce Benchmark Survey. Gregor Walter, Vice President, Product Strategy, Ecommerce at Descartes Systems Group, said the survey covers industry issues and is critical to understand how ecommerce businesses Read more
