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Overstock.com partners with Coinbase for Bitcoin acceptance
January 10, 2014
The online discount retailer Overstock.com has partnered with Bitcoin wallet provider Coinbase to add Bitcoins to the range of payment options available on its…
read nowAmazon quietly rolls out Kindle vending kiosks
January 10, 2014
It appears the king of e-commerce is experimenting with physical retail. According to an article on GeekWire, an Amazon-branded Kindle vending kiosk has been…
read nowJuniper Research: Mobile retail purchases to exceed $700 billion by 2018
January 9, 2014
Annual retail payments on mobile handsets and tablets will reach $707 billion, or 30 percent of all e-Retail by 2018, compared with 11 percent in 2012 and 1…
read nowOverstock.com lawsuit could have 'ripple effect' on retail industry
January 8, 2014
In 2010, a group of attorneys brought suit in California against online retailer Overstock.com, claiming the company's price-comparison methods were…
read nowTablets and smartphones surge on shopping websites
January 7, 2014
Tablets and smartphones are gaining in popularity as a means for visiting shopping websites, accounting for a quarter of total visits, according to the…
read nowReport says mobile retail purchases will exceed $700B annually by 2018
January 7, 2014
A new report from Juniper Research says that annual retail payments on mobile handsets and tablets are expected to reach $707 billion by 2018, representing 3…
read nowBelk selects Accenture multichannel software
January 7, 2014
Technology firm Accenture announced it has been selected by Belk, the largest family-owned and -operated department store company in the United States, to help…
read nowReport: Affluent adults are heavy Amazon users
January 3, 2014
New research from The Shullman Luxury and Affluence Monthly Pulse says that more than two-thirds of Americans making more than $250,000 per year have shopped…
read nowShorter shopping season cuts into online sales, comScore says
December 27, 2013
E-commerce spending from desktop computers is up 10 percent over a year ago, according to comScore. Shoppers spent $42.8 million during the first 52 days of…
read nowLate flurry of online sales nails UPS, retailers
December 26, 2013
A number of large retailers that promised to deliver goods before Dec. 25, including Amazon, Walmart and Kohl's, missed some of their deadlines, and the finger…
read nowUK retailers could see a very green Christmas Day online
December 23, 2013
U.K. shoppers waiting till the 11th hour and 59 minutes could result in a record-breaking online Christmas Day shopping splurge, with 117 million visits to…
read nowEyeing omnichannel growth, Macy's to build major new fulfillment center
December 18, 2013
Macy's has announced it will build a major new direct-to-consumer fulfillment center near Owasso, a city in Tulsa County, Okla., to support continued sales…
read nowKohl's, JCPenney, Nordstrom top Google's 2013 most-searched apparel brands and retailers list
December 17, 2013
Google's Zeitgeist feature, which lets users browse dozens of different interactive lists that detail online activity, offers up this year-end list of the…
read nowSelfridges takes product photography operation in-house
December 17, 2013
Selfridges has taken its entire online photography operation in-house to improve customer experience and boost the efficiency of its imaging process, the…
read nowHalf of holiday shoppers plan to wrap up lists online, highest in NRF survey history
December 17, 2013
According to NRF's latest holiday survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, nearly half (49.9 percent) of holiday shoppers indicate they plan to do…
read nowGoogle Shopping exec on Diane von Furstenberg, using Hangouts for online retailing
December 16, 2013
At the recent launch event for the fourth-annual PSFK Future of Retail Report, Laura Jones, product marketing manager for Google Shopping, spoke about a recent…
read nowBritish jeweler Beaverbrooks launches new e-commerce site
December 16, 2013
Hybris software, an SAP company, has announced that U.K. high-street jeweler Beaverbrooks has launched its new e-commerce website, www.beaverbrooks.co.uk…
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Why Amazon is droning on about new delivery methods
by Doug Stephens — President, Retail Prophet Consulting
Analysts and consumers alike are becoming increasingly accustomed to Amazon's announcements of bold and daring new projects. Most recently it was the Jeff…
read nowStudy reveals which online retailers did best on Cyber Week across the 'three screens'
December 12, 2013
Keynote, a provider of mobile and Web cloud testing and monitoring, just wrapped up its analysis of Cyber Week — the outshoot of Cyber Monday — as online…
read nowTarget unveils online 'Awesome Shop'
December 12, 2013
Target today unveiled its "Awesome Shop" subsite, a curated collection of products that all have a few things in common: They've all been pinned on Pinterest…
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