Study says retailers face big challenges from multichannel

March 17, 2014

Organizational, operational and technology challenges are hampering retailers' efforts to meet customers' demand for a seamless shopping experience across all…

Sephora launches Beauty Board social shopping platform

March 13, 2014

Sephora has announced the launch of Beauty Board, its new social shopping platform designed to engage clients through beauty images and allow them to post…

Amazon raising Prime membership to $99 per year

March 13, 2014

This morning, Amazon Prime members started getting word on the expected price increase on the service. For months it had been speculated that the service…

Yelp launches in Mexico

March 13, 2014

Online reviews site Yelp Inc. today announced the availability of Yelp Mexico. Yelp's free iPhone and Android applications will be available as well as its…

ChannelAdvisor integrates with Alibaba Group's Tmall.com platform

March 12, 2014

ChannelAdvisor Corp., a provider of cloud-based e-commerce solutions, has announced the addition of Alibaba Group's Tmall Global solution to the ChannelAdvisor…

SecureBuy gets Canadian patent for signature capture tech

March 11, 2014

SecureBuy announced it has been granted intellectual property protection for its real-time, online biometric signature capture technology under Canadian patent…

McAfee report details link between 'dark Web,' data breaches

March 10, 2014

The "McAfee Labs Threats Report: Fourth Quarter 2013," released today, highlights the ease of purchasing POS malware online, and of selling stolen credit card…

Fashion retailer ASOS launches shopping app

March 10, 2014

ASOS, a U.K.-based online fashion retailer, has announced the launch of its U.S. shopping app, offering more than 850 brands and the ASOS private label for…

Retailer Runnings selects ShopVisible for e-commerce launch

March 10, 2014

Runnings, a general merchandise retailer with more than 34 brick and mortar stores across the upper Midwest, has announced its partnership with ShopVisible for…

Overstock surpasses $1 million in Bitcoin sales

March 4, 2014

Overstock.com, Inc. announced it has sold over $1 million in product to Bitcoin users since the online shopping site started accepting the cryptocurrency on…

With Flow, showrooming moves beyond barcodes

Amazon's mobile app uses live photo recognition to let showroomers build shopping lists.

Clash of the titans: Alibaba vs. Amazon

by Chris Petersen — Owner, IMS

There are some predictions that 50 percent of major U.S. retailers will be gone by 2020. While it is too early to predict the demise of bricks and mortar, it's…

SLI Systems launches product recommendation engine

February 19, 2014

SLI Systems has announced the launch of its Learning Recommendations product, an add-on to its Learning Search site search solution, to give e-commerce…

Retail customer satisfaction improves for a third consecutive year

Better customer service, discounting more than offsets a drop in customer satisfaction with online retail.

Wine.com snags executives from Williams-Sonoma, Shutterfly

February 18, 2014

Wine.com, a leading online wine retailer, today announced the addition of Peter Elarde as CMO and Greg Tatem as VP of engineering to the Wine.com executive…

MarketLive launches new partner program MarketLive Connect

February 14, 2014

Commerce platform MarketLive has announced MarketLive Connect, a partner network of technology providers who contribute a wide range of commerce solutions to…

IBM unveils 'Ready for Smarter Commerce' tech ecosystem

February 14, 2014

At this week's PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM unveiled the "Ready for Smarter Commerce" program, a new ecosystem that it says gives clients access to…

Children's clothing retailer uses RFID to reduce online out-of-stocks

February 12, 2014

Coccinelle, a high-end children's clothing retailer, announced it is now optimizing its inventory accuracy using RFID, resulting in a decrease of more than 6…

Volusion platform unveils integration with Stripe

February 11, 2014

Volusion Inc. has announced a new integration with Stripe for the Volusion platform, which is designed to offer its small to medium-sized merchants an…

Study shows top retailer websites are 31 percent bigger, 21 percent slower

February 11, 2014

Radware, a provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today released a new study titled "State of…