E-commerce News & Articles

IBM (news, site) has been all over the news this week with a number of new product/solution announcements. A review of what's new in its Smarter Commerce portfolio demonstrates the importance of social channels in the buying experience.

This week the battle for the hearts and pockets of SMBs between Microsoft and Google continues with Microsoft offering Bing marketing for SMBs and Google upgrading its Places. SAP offers businesses that want it a cheap way of doing e-commerce, while new research shows that many SMBs are not ready for web traffic spikes.

Electronic payment processors usually require several layers of security and authentication methods, and access to centralized servers. A shift to a cloud-based system can help improve transaction times and reduce the risk of exposing sensitive user data to theft or loss. With Akamai's (news, site) planned cloud-based e-payment service, token-based payments can reduce the security risk and improve performance of online payments, and will help reduce the cost of security compliance for businesses.

Sitecore (news, site), one of the players in the .NET Web CMS market, has added an e-commerce platform to its product portfolio.

Packt Publishing (news, site) has released the names of the next set of winners in its annual Open Source Awards. This round includes the winner of the Open Source E-Commerce Applications category and the Open Source Graphics Software category. Packt will announce winners for the remaining three categories later this week.

Oracle (news, site) continues its charge to buy what it hasn’t already developed itself. This time, in its ninth acquisition of 2010, it has just agreed to buy e-commerce company ATG Technology for close to US$ 1 billion.

Bitrix (news, site) aims to shake up the website management market with a new push in usability and ergonomics to create a simpler way to work.

GX Software (news, site) is adding e-commerce capabilities to its web content management system, continuing its drive to provide a comprehensive web engagement management offering for customers.

With holiday shopping in mind, SeeWhy (news, site) hit the market with extended conversion abilities for re-marketing to those customers whose wallets just need a little extra push. 

In August we profiled the ways that online e-commerce video can engage users. To further study the impact and benefits of online video in e-commerce, SundaySky recently published the second in a series of research reports focused on the State of Video in e-commerce. The report covers the state of video in e-commerce websites, disclosing facts about the usage of video by top U.S. online retailers, including mobile and social strategies.

Bridgeline (news, site) updates iAPPS to version 4.5 with improved search and commerce features for better business.

While there are a number of new enhancements with the release of the most recent version of its web content management software Site Manager 9.0, Bitrix (news, site) has focused this time around on providing better security to underline its own claim that it is the most secure Web CMS on the market.

Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Web Engagement Management (WEM) are interlinked. Online video can be one of the most powerful tools (if used wisely), and online retailers have no good reason not to incorporate online video to help engage and persuade customers.

For as long as there has been an Internet, men and women have used it differently. A recent ComScore report Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet revisits the changing and evolving behaviors of how women are using and engaging with the web.

 Facebook and Amazon have combined forces in order to make shopping on the 'net just as social as it tends to be in the physical world.