Tag: ecommerce

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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Is Yelp Getting Better For Businesses?
Yelp has always been about helping local businesses find customers, and helping potential customers find local businesses of interest. Despite the general functionality of the serv...
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eBay Ups Its Search Game With Cassini
eBay has a new search engine powering the results on its site, and from the sound of it, it's a huge step up from the search experience of years past. It's called Cassini, and...
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Square Market Launches As Online Storefront for Small Businesses
Not content to simply exist as a mobile payments platform, Square is expanding into the world of ecommerce with a new online marketplace for local businesses to display their wares...
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Society6 Not Being Integrated With Other Demand Media Properties (At Least For Now)
Demand Media announced this week that it has acquired artist ma...
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Demand Media Acquires Artist Marketplace Society6 For $94 Million
Demand Media just announced that it has acquired Society6, an ecommerce marketplace for artists. "All an artist needs to do is upload their a...
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