E-commerce News & Articles

The weather finally turned hot this week in Europe, and it looks like it could fray tempers a bit as Oracle, SAP and IBM once again set upon a collision course -- this time over data management around e-commerce.

One of the newest social networks, Pinterest, may be about to achieve something that neither Facebook, Google+ or Twitter have been unable to accomplish at scale. No, it’s not creating a social network made up almost entirely of women. Pinterest may be preparing to monetize all of those shared photos of things you wish you owned, which could make the social network one of the stickiest e-commerce destinations ever.

Adobe kicks off its EMEA Digital Marketing Summit today with some updates to its online customer experience platform and some new cloud capabilities that go that extra mile to support marketers.

Facebook is continuing to tune its advertising options in advance of its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO). The company has repeatedly made major changes to its ad services over the last year. In the last two months, Facebook has expanded the beta test of self-service Offers platform to a small number of international brands and most recently, local businesses. Now Facebook is expanding Offers to web-based companies.

If you are focused on e-Commerce, customer support or involved with any website, you need to think about the implications mobile has on your offerings. If you’ve avoided jumping on this bandwagon, there are some trends that might convince you it is time.

E-retailers have a habit of sending messages at least once or twice a day to their database of customer email addresses, regardless of who they are or the last time they made a purchase. Marketing managers are still attempting to unravel the mystery of what makes some people open and read their messages and others immediately trash them.

There is one obvious clue -- settling for mass blasts will do nothing for garnering positive attention.

When managing an e-Commerce site, it’s all about ROI. How can we improve the site performance metrics and all media channels used to send in traffic?

Previously, we talked about the social e-commerce network, gotradelive and its aim to give businesses the freedom and flexibility to set their own terms for sales and deliveries. This week it announced the launch of its service in the US.

Adobe didn't wait for the opening keynote at the Adobe Summit this morning to give its product update news. Instead the customer experience management (CXM) giant is let us in on some product updates to the Digital Marketing Suite early -- just to get you excited to get back to your desk and start working. Of course the opening keynote strongly focused on showing most of these new capabilities.

PayPal has long dominated the small ecommerce transaction market, now it heads to the streets, the stores and pretty much anywhere with a new mobile PayPal Here solution for card and other payments.

Adobe has been tinkering around under the hood of FormsCentral since It first released it just over a year ago, adding Twitter integration, skip logic and file attachments among other features. This time, it has added PayPal Express Checkout that pushes it a long way down the road to being a perfect e-commerce tools for SMBs or enterprise departments.

French-American based Commerce Guys announced today an influx of US$ 5 million in Series A funding led by European venture firms Alven Capital, Espoo and ISAI.

Sometimes, a partnership is just meant to be. Building on many successful integrations since 2009, EPiServer acquires Mediachase and makes Mediachase's eCommerce engine a permanent component of the EPiServer Commerce solution.

 Last summer, eBay was busy acquiring companies in an effort to put together a developer platform called X.Commerce. While its presence has been muted, its open platform aims to helps merchants and businesses of all sizes to “compete and thrive in a fast-changing world of social, local, mobile and digital driven commerce.” eBay isn’t the only working to make it easier for business to buy, sell or market their services to one another. Enter gotradelive.

Today, web content management provider Telerik releases the next update to Sitefinity Web CMS, this time with a focus on easier administration to get your websites up and running quickly.