Ecommerce powerhouse Rakuten will allow Bitcoin payments, the company announced. Customers will be able to choose Bitcoin as a payment option on Rakutken.com (formerly Buy.com), to be followed by Rakuten.de in Germany and Rakuten.at in Austria. Rakuten said the advantage Read more
Despite Amazon’s high-tech advances in the fulfillment business, they have had their share of issues, most recently with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) orders being handled by a new California facility. Such issues prompt the time-sensitive seller to consider alternatives, one of which Read more
Rakuten officially launched its marketplace Rakuten.co.uk in the UK on Wednesday. A spokesperson told EcommerceBytes the new marketplace currently features products from UK merchants, but Rakuten plans to bolster the international marketplace over the next 12 months by inviting merchants from across Read more
Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten is consolidating its international marketplaces, which will impact sellers on certain platforms in Europe. The company will move all of its ecommerce marketplaces into one global platform, a spokesperson told EcommerceBytes. “The global ecommerce marketplace platform Read more
Online merchants in the U.S. know Rakuten as a marketplace on which to sell thanks to the rebranding of its Buy.com website to Rakuten.com Shopping. But while it’s often thought of as a global ecommerce company, Rakuten also operates other Read more
Time and again, we hear online merchants urging online marketplaces to advertise their sites more prominently, with many sellers advocating TV campaigns to drive shoppers to their listings. eBay and Overstock.com have run some memorable television ads in the past, Read more
Rakuten Shopping (formerly Buy.com) has revealed the finalists for its 2013 Shop of the Year Awards. Each year, the Shop of the Year Awards recognize the Rakuten.com marketplace’s most successful and pioneering merchants in several categories as well as two Read more
Rakuten COO and Chief Marketing Officer Bernard Luthi revealed how the marketplace fared over the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend in an EcommerceBytes podcast interview on Monday. Rakuten acquired Buy.com three years ago, and Luthi said Rakuten is the first Read more
Apple’s recent unveiling of its latest tweaks to the iPad line likely means its eager customer base will adopt some of their newest gadgets and put them to good use. Among those uses is shopping, something shown to be more Read more
