E-commerce News & Articles

The way customers shop through Google and retailers is changing, as the company begins to phase out Google Checkout in favor of Google Wallet.

To say that living without cash has been the stuff of legend would be an exaggeration … but only a slight one. And the reality may come sooner than we think.

The creators of Drupal Commerce, Commerce Guys, have released Commerce Mobile, an iOS app that's designed to improve the online shopping experience through an in-app connection with Drupal commerce websites.

This month as we learn more about implementing customer journeys, it occurred to me that one of the integral parts of the customer journey is the online shopping cart experience. After all, we know that while it may be easier to get prospective customers to add items to their virtual shopping cart, getting them to check out and complete the purchase is much more complicated.

For social media marketers looking to make the most of visuals, there is a new tool called PICT --  a shoppable photos application.

Commerce platform vendor hybris and translation system provider Lionbridge have both announced integrations with Adobe this week. Hybris is hopping on the Adobe digital analytics bandwagon, and Lionbridge is focusing, of course, on multilingual content the companies announced at the Adobe Summit conference in London.

Understanding what online customers are doing, and predicting what they will do, has become a major part of contemporary e-Commerce. But, with so many online channels and so many types of customer actions, how best to capture, display and interpret? Toward this end, customer analytics provider NICE Systems is now offering it Customer Engagement Analytics (CEA) platform, which it described as the “industry’s first to combine interaction and transaction analysis.” 

B2B commerce is trending towards the B2C model, an Oracle report has found, and companies are looking to expand their online sales because customers' expectations have changed in the face of those consumer buying practices.

Developers working on in stream payment apps be warned. Twitter will close off your service if you try to set up shop on their turf without proper authorization as the company has done with a startup called Ribbon.

Commerce products provider, hybris has released latest version of its hybris Commerce Suite that gives B2B and B2C marketing companies omni-channel capabilities. More specifically, this new update is centered on the cross-channel consumer and in-store business tools.

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Recently I came across a telling statistic: according to a recent survey by PriceWaterhouseCooper seven out of ten people never use social media sites to purchase items or services, even though almost half of the respondents check those sites on a daily basis. 

Pinterest marketing and analytics solution, Pinfluencer has rebranded. Now named Piqora, the rebranded company also introduced a new tool: Gallery, a social e-Commerce product.

There is a fundamental change going on in e-commerce -- and we’re seeing it happen right before our eyes.

Nearly three-quarters of online customers expect to get help within five minutes when they are trying to make an online purchase -- and half will abandon the purchase right away or after one attempt to find help, if help is not forthcoming. That is one of a variety of findings in a new report from online help provider LivePerson that paints a picture of the attitudes and behaviors of online customers.