While other companies continue to flood the market and target retailers with new e-commerce solutions for Facebook, one of the industry’s original ‘F-commerce’ providers is already well into phase two of its retail offering for the social networking site. Comparison search engine SortPrice.com yesterday announced that it has unveiled Version 2.0 of its Facebook Store [...]
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E-commerce Sales Surge Continues in May
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Retail, tagged ecommerce sales data, MasterCard Advisors, MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, May 2011 e-commerce sales, online sales 2011 on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Despite an unusually late-April Easter holiday that probably hindered sales in the days and weeks following it, May marked the seventh consecutive month of double digit e-commerce sales growth, according to data from MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse report. Overall online spending in May grew 15.9 percent year over year, which also represented the 22nd straight month [...]
Survey Tracks the Rise of Mobile Shopping
Posted in Ecommerce, Mobile Commerce, Retail, tagged Experian, m-commerce, mobile commerce, mobile shopping survey, pricegrabber, smart phones, Web-enabled phones on May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve covered the gradual rise of m-commerce as a viable consumer shopping preference many times here. And while all signs point to continued growth and popularity of mobile shopping in the near future, have you ever stopped and wondered just how this shopping phenomenon evolved? A new mobile shopping survey by Experian’s PriceGrabber comparison shopping [...]
Glenn Beck Brings a Whole Different Kind of Values to Daily Deal Shopping
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged daily deal sites, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck e-commerce, Groupon, Markdown.com, Mercury Radio Arts on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In what might qualify as the most random piece of news that we’ve ever reported here on Ecommerce Junkie, conservative political commentator Glenn Beck, the bane of the liberals everywhere, has launched a daily deal site called Markdown.com. The Fox News personality, whose gig as the afternoon talk show host on the conservative network is [...]
Wal-Mart Gets Serious about Social, Mobile Commerce
Posted in Ecommerce, Mobile Commerce, Retail, tagged @WalmartLabs, Anand Rajaraman, Kosmix, Venky Harinarayan, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Acquires Kosmix, Walmart.com on April 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Despite already ranking as the No. 1 retailer in the world and quickly moving up in the top ten list of e-tailers as well, Wal-Mart is clearly not intent to rest on its laurels. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that it has agreed to buy Silicon Valley-based Kosmix Corp. in an effort to accelerate the progress [...]
Retailers Already Spending More on Paid Search in 2011
Posted in General News / Technology, Retail, tagged IgnitionOne, paid search data, retail paid search, SearchIgnite on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we ran a post on a Forrester Research study that argued Facebook would not turn out to be a gold mine for retailers in the long haul, as many have predicted. We certainly made no bones about stating that the overall premise of the report is one that we simply can’t get on [...]
AT&T Partners with Digby on New M-commerce Offering
Posted in General News / Technology, Mobile Commerce, Retail, tagged AT&T Wireless, Digby Inc., m-commerce, mobile commerce on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Retailers who have yet to jump into the m-commerce game are about to have a new option from a well-known entity to consider. AT&T Wireless announced that it has teamed up with Austin, TX-based mobile web developer Digby Inc. to roll out a service that will empower merchants to create full-scale mobile commerce sites and [...]
March E-commerce Sales Keep Climbing
Posted in General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Retail, Uncategorized, tagged e-retail sales data, ecommerce sales data, February 2011 ecommerce sales, March 2011 ecommerce sales, MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse on April 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With gas prices on the rise, thus curtailing trips to the mall, e-commerce sales posted a fifth consecutive month of double-digit growth in March according the latest MasterCard SpendingPulse report that was issued today. Online retail sales increased 16.1 percent last month compared to March of 2010, building on the 13.2 percent year over year [...]
Google Rolls Out +1 to Compete with Facebook
Posted in General News / Technology, Retail, tagged Facebook Commerce, Facebook Likes, Google, Google +1, Google Plus-1 on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just when you thought there were enough ways to show how much you like content on the web…. Google announced yesterday the launch of a new feature called the +1 Button, that’s going to bring a social element to web searches and compete directly with Facebook Likes for the attention of you internet users out [...]
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