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Online holiday shopping to be more influenced by social media this year
October 10, 2014
Survey results show 36 percent of shoppers intend to buy gifts via their mobile device, up 29 percent from last year, and 49 percent will make purchases based…
read nowStudy says shoppers are abandoning mobile shopping carts due to poor customer care
October 8, 2014
New research from Contact Solutions shows that consumers have high expectations for retail care when shopping via mobile device, and if those expectations…
read nowAcromobile partners with Bitnet for merchant bitcoin acceptance
October 7, 2014
Acromobile Payments with bitcoin acceptance is available to any merchant as a fully integrated Order-to-Bitcoin-to-Cash solution with integration to leading…
read nowGlobal Payments boards the Apple Pay train
October 2, 2014
Payment products provider will allow its partner developers to add Apple's system in their offerings through an SDK.
read nowMarketLive unveils cloud-based transaction processing platform via AWS
October 1, 2014
According to the company, customers benefit from global infrastructure capabilities, responsive scaling for peak periods and included redundancy capabilities.
read nowPayPal and eBay to become separate companies next year
September 30, 2014
Move comes months after investor Carl Icahn suggested a split so that both entities could focus on their strengths.
read nowBigcommerce launches real-time analytics platform for retailers
September 30, 2014
Bigcommerce Analytics delivers information such as best-selling products, popular categories, average order value (AOV), purchase funnel analysis, abandoned…
read nowAmazon lets shoppers add items to wishlist via Tweets
September 25, 2014
The announcement comes after the recent launch of a similar service, #AmazonCart, which uses the same functionality to add products to a user's Amazon shopping…
read nowHalf of Americans plan to start online holiday shopping earlier this year
September 23, 2014
Overall, 70 percent of Americans consider shipping options to be an important factor in the shopping experience compared to 66 percent in 2013. Also, one-third…
read nowSurvey explores upcoming priorities for online retailers
September 23, 2014
Retailers identified a renewed focus in marketing efforts, investing in tools with greater data capture and analytical capabilities.
read nowFeedvisor launches repricing dashboard for online retailers
September 16, 2014
According to the company, the Revenue Intelligence Dashboard utilizes self-learning algorithms to present the seller with in-depth business information and…
read nowE-receipt analytics app Slice opens its API
September 16, 2014
Slice, which offers an eponymous shopping app that extracts and organizes online shopping data from e-receipts, announced it has opened its API to web…
read nowMore than 60 percent of consumers are increasing their online shopping activity
September 15, 2014
The SmartFocus survey also reveals a significant age-related gap in digital shopping preferences. Nearly half of all millennials spend more time shopping…
read nowFoot Locker adding same-day delivery
September 12, 2014
Shoppers can select same-day or next-day delivery for $5. Customers will also have the option of shopping in the Foot Locker store and having their items…
read nowTwitter adding a 'Buy' button
September 8, 2014
The initial partnership consists of deals with Burberry, DonorsChoose and GLAAD, and also with a variety of big names in entertainment, including Brad Paisley…
read nowIBM unveils back-to-school online shopping numbers
September 8, 2014
Overall, U.S. retail online sales for August were up more than 11 percent as compared to the same period last year.
read nowTarget also adding shopping via Instagram
August 29, 2014
Just days after Nordstrom announced that it was partnering with Curalate to allow its customers to shop via the social network Instagram, Target announced that…
read nowHome Depot names new CEO, continues shift to e-commerce
August 27, 2014
Home Depot Inc. recently named longtime company executive Craig Menear as its new CEO, effective Nov. 1, according to The Wall Street Journal.
read nowNordstrom adds Instagram shopping
August 26, 2014
Nordstrom Inc. announced that it is partnering with Curalate as the first company to launch Like2Buy, a platform that it says will enable a more seamless…
read nowAmazon acquiring streaming service Twitch
August 26, 2014
In July, more than 55 million unique visitors viewed more than 15 billion minutes of content on Twitch produced by more than 1 million broadcasters, including…
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