Pinterest has long been looking to monetize its social-networking site, and it’s been lining up some former eBay executives to help. The latest is Scott Schenkel, who had taken over as Interim CEO of eBay when Devin Wenig abruptly resigned Read more
If you use Pinterest to promote your ecommerce business to the over 463 million people who visit the site each month, get ready for some heavyweight competition: Pinterest announced it will begin allowing Amazon to advertise on its platform, the Read more
With Bill Ready presiding over commerce and payments at Google, the search giant made some significant seller-friendly changes. But after only 2 and a half years, Ready is leaving Google to become CEO of Pinterest on June 29, 2022. “As Read more
As Google integrates with additional ecommerce tools to help it get more products in front of searchers’ eyeballs, it is also working on making deals more prominent to shoppers. Searches for “discount code” have increased 50% since last year, it Read more
Google is giving merchants who use the Shopify ecommerce platform a leg up in search results, not only on Google and Google Shopping, but on YouTube, Google Images, and more. Bill Ready said a new simplified process will let Shopify’s Read more
Nearly a year into his job heading up commerce at Google, Bill Ready has made it his mission to democratize online retail. Ready has overseen a series of moves aiming to widen access to Google’s platform for online sellers, particularly Read more
Google launched several new features recently that show how focused it is on providing services for brands, retailers, and online merchants, and how it is going beyond the advertising services on which many already rely. Some of the latest developments Read more
Departing PayPal executive Bill Ready confirmed via Twitter he’s heading to Google as its new President of Commerce. Indications of what this means for Google can be found on his LinkedIn bio, where he states in a nutshell, “Creating the Read more
The word innovation gets thrown around a lot by tech companies, and sometimes it seems decisions are made just for the sake of innovation rather than to pursue realistic opportunities. But PayPal’s Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready lent a steady Read more
PayPal is running a new pilot program called PayPal One Touch Seller Signup that helps sellers go multichannel and helps marketplaces as well. It comes as PayPal weans itself from its dependence on eBay, which is launching its own managed Read more
