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…

Retail CFOs forecast 5 percent sales growth for 2014

February 11, 2014

Despite ongoing market uncertainty, retail chief financial officers are feeling more confident about the state of the consumer. According to a new BDO USA, LLP…

UK retail director: Online is 'driving structural change'

February 11, 2014

Helen Dickinson, the director of the British Retail Consortium, told United Press International today that online shopping is fundamentally changing the retail…

Shopgate acquires Magento e-commerce development team

February 10, 2014

Mobile commerce platform provider Shopgate has acquired MagCorp, a four-person team developing applications for open-source e-commerce platform Magento.

Bitcoin regulation a certainty, but to what degree?

February 7, 2014

Rulings by the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network are revealing a developing picture of Bitcoin regulation in the United States. Last week…

Global e-commerce sales to hit $1.5 trillion, driven by growth in emerging markets

Asia-Pacific leapfrogs North America to become world's largest regional e-commerce market.

International sales from US retailers to jump to $50B by 2020

February 5, 2014

Global strategy consulting firm OC&C Strategy Consultants released a report today in collaboration with Google, entitled "The Global Retail e-mpire." The…

NGA launches digital media center

February 4, 2014

The National Grocers Association has announced a new partnership with Media Solutions Corp. to launch the NGA Digital Media Center. According to the companies…

Mindshare Technologies announces text analytics tool for customer comments, reviews

January 31, 2014

Mindshare Technologies, a provider of cloud-based Voice of the Customer (VoC) technologies, has announced the general availability of Comment Poster, a new…