Tag: ecommerce

Twitter Gets Commerce Head, Plans To Get People Using Twitter For Online Shopping
Twitter announced today that it has hired former Ticketmaster boss Nathan Hubbard as its new Head of Commerce. He will report to Twitter's revenue head, Adam Bain, and will rep...
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Bing Uses Machine Learning To Improve Product Search
Bing announced today that it is launching a new product search experience, which utilizes its index of tens of millions of products, along with machine learning, to show products o...
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Groupon Launches GPN Affiliate Network For Online Publishers
Groupon has announced the launch of the Groupon Partner Network (GPN), a local ecommerce affiliate marketing program for online publishers. "GPN distributes the most relevant G...
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Facebook Is Readying A PayPal-Like Payment Product For Mobile Shopping
Facebook has been wading through the shallow end of the payments pool for years, but if a test the company is readying is any indication, it could be getting ready to go head to he...
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Etsy Gives Sellers New Shop Dashboard, Makes Good On Promise Of More Business Tools
Etsy announced today that it is launching a new Shop Dashboard designed to save sellers time by surfacing shop activity info in one place. The dashboard provides a summary of s...
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Etsy Hits 30 Million Members, Plans To Give Businesses More Tools
Etsy announced on Wednesday that it reached its 30 million member milestone this week (which is interesting considering they were just talking about having over 25 million on Tuesd...
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Etsy Greatly Expands Its Direct Checkout Feature
Etsy announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its Direct Checkout feature into nine new currencies and fifteen new markets. A spokesperson for the company tells WebProNews, "W...
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Pinterest Launches Price Drop Notifications, Will Email You When Your Pins Get Cheaper
Pinterest is about to make shopaholics very happy. Today, the social networking site announced that they will now be monitoring price drops on products and notifying users of this...
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Diffbot Uses Robots To Extract Data From E-commerce Sites
Diffbot announced today that it is relasing a new API that uses robots to understand and extract data from e-commerce sites. The robotics company, which uses vision, machine le...
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It’s Official: Yahoo Acquires Lexity
Earlier this week, rumors emerged that Yahoo was close to acquiring e-commerce app platform...
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Google Is Shutting Down The Google Shopper App
Google announced on Friday that it is shutting down the Google Shopper app, which lets users look up product specs and reviews and comparison shop on their phones while looking at...
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Google Helpouts Could Give Google A Big Ecommerce Upgrade
Google has been testing a new product called Helpouts with brands like Sears, Weight Watchers, and others, according to TechCrunch, who received a tip about it, and...
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One Direction School Supplies Are Really Hot This Year, According To Google Shopping Data
Google has shared some search trends for back to school shoppers using the search engine for their shopping needs. The company finds that this is the earliest back to school shoppi...
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Etsy Bans Items Made From These Animals
Etsy updated its Prohibited Items policy this week to ban the listing of items made from certain animals, such as those designated as threatened or endangered. This includes (but i...
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eBay Launches eBay Now For The Desktop
eBay announced today that its local shopping service eBay Now, previously only available in mobile app form, is now launching on the desktop. The service lets customers look at...
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