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eBay Gets Off to a Rough Holiday Shopping Start (at Seeking Alpha...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:11:29 GMT

The company on Saturday suffered a search outage “due to errors in some of our backend systems.” A search on products would lead to an error message or blank page.

Twitter Retweets Itself. Will You Benefit?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:34:08 GMT

The micro-blogging site finally builds its own way to retweet messages. Let the controversy begin.

Site Search: Please Shoppers and Boost Your Bottom Line

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

While retailers are facing increased competition, many have recognized that the way to thrive today is to invest in new ways to engage and serve their customers. Many are taking a fresh look at one of the cornerstones of the online experience: site search. Good site search can enable more personal

E-Com Set To Ring Up Sales (Investor's Business Daily)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:17:45 GMT

Nov. 30 is the ceremonial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season this year. That's Cyber Monday. The term was coined by Shop.org in 2005 after

E-commerce platform provider Truition is sold to business softwar...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT

E-commerce platform provider Truition Inc. announced today an agreement to be acquired by CDC Software Corp., a provider of business software to mor...

What are E-Commerce Hosting and what are its Advantages?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:12:29 GMT

The Internet can be a very quick, cheap and efficient way to shop online. This mode of shopping is very common among new generation and is continuing to grow in popularity year upon year. Online shopping can be as easy as one mouse click to make an order.

Tallan Announces E-Commerce Partnership with Znode

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:35:00 GMT

ROCKY HILL, Conn., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Tallan, Inc., a nationwide professional services firm providing business-critical customized technology solutions for its clients, announced today a new partnership with Znode, a leading .Net e-commerce platform.

Outgrowing your Webstore? Join Diane von Furstenberg, FitForComme...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:46:00 GMT

Yesterday, we posted about a recent eMarketer article discussing 2010 e-commerce business trends, and how retailers are investing in e-commerce technologies

E-Commerce SEO for the Holidays - Website Magazine - Website Maga...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:37:00 GMT

One of Website Magazine's recommended SEO software solutions in LotusJump has unvelied some new features. And what do you know... just in time for the holidays. Did you catch that e-commerce merchants? Enhancements to the platform include: - DeepLink...

E-commerce trends to improve for holidays-comScore (at Reuters)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:55:09 GMT

By Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - U.S. online shopping most likely did not see positive growth in the third quarter, but sales trends will turn positive for the holidays due to dismal year-ago

StorefrontBacktalk » Blog Archive » Dangers Of Out-Of-Scope Data

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:19:49 GMT

In the last few weeks in payment security circles, dominating many discussions has been speculation over what PCI and Visa and others will decide about declaring some kinds of data out-of-scope for PCI purposes.

comScore Reports Q3 2009 U.S. E-Commerce Spending Down 2 Percent ...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:47:00 GMT

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its Q3 2009 retail e-commerce sales estimates, which showed that U.S. online retail spending totaled $29.6 billion, down 2 percent versus year ago. Q3 2009 represents the first time on record that consecutive

PayPal Opens Up (at Forbes.com)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:20:13 GMT

Forbes Velocity Blog: How personal technology is being made, and remade, by entrepreneurs.

PayPal looks for developers' applications (at San Francisco Chron...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:38:00 GMT

(11-03) 18:38 PST -- Embracing a strategy popularized by Apple, eBay enlisted the aid of outside developers Tuesday in creating applications for PayPal, a move the struggling company hopes will accelerate adoption of the payment platform it increasingly views as the core of its business.

PayPal opens door to outside developers (at FT.com)

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:05:16 GMT

PayPal will unveil its new platform on Tuesday, a feature that its owner Ebay hopes will help double the size of the payments unit over the next two years.

38% of visitors to e-commerce sites in research phase: survey

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:06:00 GMT

Of all visitors to e-commerce sites, 38.6% are there to research products and prices, and to gather information, though just 85% are able to complete this task successfully. This is one if the findings of an iPerceptions e-commerce survey, suggesting ...

Global E-Commerce Summits Hightlights Part 2

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:12:21 GMT

Below are more highlights from the Global E-Commerce Summit, which was held October 26-28 in Monaco and where digital retail executives from more than 20

EBAY INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report (EDGAR Online)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:01:05 GMT

These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements.

Shopping.com and PayPal

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:41:57 GMT

As all Shopping.com users should know by now, Shopping.com is changing over to PayPal as their payment processor. This has nothing to do with B2C transactions or a return to the Shopping Cart model. This does have everything to do with how Shopping.com takes payments from merchants. Since both

Smart People

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:56:00 GMT

"It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference." Michael Dell Founder Dell Computer

EBay earnings fall, though revenue beats forecast (at MarketWatch...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:19:00 GMT

EBay reports a drop in third-quarter earnings, though revenue for the quarter comes in significantly higher than Wall Street had estimated.

eBay profit falls 29% but marketplace business stabilizes (at CNN...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:14:00 GMT

eBay Inc. efforts to turnaround in a tough climate for consumer pending seem to have paid off as the core marketplace business stabilized. But the company reported third-quarter profits that fell and missed Wall Street's expectations.

Live-Blogging eBay Earnings (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:38:37 GMT

EBay’s third-quarter profit fell 29% to $349.7 million, compared with the year-earlier period, while revenue rose 5.7% to $2.24 billion, its first such uptick in a year.

Is eBay Still Cheap? (at Motley Fool)

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:56:46 GMT

It's second nature for value investors to look for companies with durable competitive advantages -- doubly so in uncertain economic times. In fact, a strong moat is so important that it's sometimes difficult to put a value on it.

Ebay Unveils 'Bill Me Later' (at Fox Business)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:00:17 GMT

Ebay Inc.(EBAY) said Monday its deferred payment system is online for both eBay and PayPal giving the online auctioneer another hook for the holiday shopping season.