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It's not even December yet and companies are already getting the Christmas fever. Who could blame them, the holiday season is the best time of the year for retailers and everyone is gearing up for a piece of the action. Google is not missing out either and is sprucing out its Product Search with several new fea... |
24 November 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Google is aiming for the enterprise and business market with several products and it's slowly making some progress in the sector. Now, it's launching a new product aimed at e-commerce sites, but, this time, based on what it does best, search. The new Google Commerce Search is a dedicated cloud service aimed... |
5 November 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Amazon and Zappos have finally closed the acquisition deal first announced in July, both companies have confirmed. The biggest online retailer in the world made a bid last summer to acquire the shoe and apparel shopping site in a mostly stock deal. When the deal was announced, Zappos was valuated at about $880 millio... |
2 November 2009
10:55 GMT |
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The social web is influencing more and more sectors online and shopping hasn't been spared. A big number of retailers already has some sort of presence on social websites and their number is growing rapidly. It's not enough to have a good website these days, as a great Facebook page or YouTube channel are e... |
27 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Online shopping isn't exactly something new these days, but some of its greatest potential still hasn't been attained, especially in the fragmented European market. In the US, sites like Amazon have built huge businesses around online retail, but in Europe the sites have remained much localized. A new s... |
23 October 2009
11:40 GMT |
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Online retail is already big business in the US and Amazon is by far the largest player in the market. Its recent foray into e-books has also proven quite profitable, creating a new market for e-books and e-book readers that is becoming hotly disputed. Now Wal-Mart, one of the largest brick-and-mortar retailers in th... |
17 October 2009
07:22 GMT |
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Online retail giant Amazon is pushing even harder at replacing brick-and-mortar stores with a new same-day delivery option in several large cities in the US. Customers will now have the option to receive their purchases on the same day they made them with a few caveats. There is an added tax to the new delivery optio... |
16 October 2009
10:23 GMT |
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Adobe, the largest web-design and web-development tool provider in the world has acquired Business Catalyst, a small company that offers a platform for web-designers to build e-commerce websites without any programming skills. Business Catalyst is also the owner of the GoodBarry platform, which was included in the t... |
1 September 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Online groceries may not seem as glamorous a business venture as, say, software-as-a-service platforms, but they could provide an interesting investment opportunity especially if the business is already profitable. At least that's what Stripes Group, a New York private equity firm, seems to think as it has just ... |
12 August 2009
09:26 GMT |
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com is pushing into the US market with a big marketing campaign starting next week. The move is the first big foray in the area and aims to familiarize American entrepreneurs with the English version of its site, the WSJ reports. The site itself has been around since the company was f... |
8 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Target, the second biggest retailer in the U.S., announced in a press release that, starting 2011, it would manage and run its own e-commerce platform independently from Amazon's services. The service should be built and launched before the holiday season of 2011. After a very lucrative deal with Amazon, the co... |
8 August 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Network Solutions, one of the biggest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, announced a data breach incident yesterday after malicious code had been found on its e-commerce servers. According to the company, the malware might have intercepted transactions from 4,343 websites, compromising 573,928 ... |
25 July 2009
04:10 GMT |
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India's central bank, called the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has released new mandatory guidelines for the way online credit card transactions are processed, requiring the implementation of an additional verification system based on cardholder details not available on the card itself. The Internet & Mobile Asso... |
17 July 2009
07:51 GMT |
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A study commissioned by PayPal revealed that e-commerce users from U.K., U.S. or Canada are most exposed to online fraud attempts. Ten percent of the online users from this country were affected by identity theft, compared to only five percent in Germany, France and Spain. PayPal also launched an interactive website ... |
24 October 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Families who have children know that, in the late summer, a large amount of the family's finances is already assigned to the return of the youngsters to school. While the back-to-school purchases are usually made via the traditional way, by going to a supermarket and picking out the necessary school supplies, re... |
11 July 2008
09:34 GMT |
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A recent survey shows that this holiday season sales will still pick up, despite the extremely slow kick-start. Good news for the online sales department of any firm, but still not so good because it will actually be a drop in an ongoing on the rise trend."It's true that this year's growth rate will be a dr... |
23 November 2007
09:55 GMT |
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MyGate, a South African payment gateway service, has created a service that lets e-commerce merchants using Linux to access credit card security services that were initially developed for Windows.MasterCard SecureCode and Visa 3D Secure reduce the risk of credit card fraud. They require software to be installed on th... |
27 September 2007
08:50 GMT |
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Bang & Olufsen has for a long time been one of the world's most exclusive and innovative brands and their products have inspired many generations of gear manufacturers and designers alike. From the early 80's down to the last months, Bang & Olufsen have never ceased creating the most astounding pieces of au... |
8 June 2007
10:44 GMT |
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MPoria, one of the leading providers of mobile commerce solutions in North America is launching a new system that is going to offer retailers the possibility to sell products to clients via mobile channel without any effort at all. The company is best known for building and also marketing m-commerce stores for servic... |
11 April 2007
03:55 GMT |
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