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We’re taking some time off to enjoy the holidays (and the fruits of our online holiday shopping!), so we won’t be posting any new items here for about a week. Don’t worry though, we’ll be back soon enough with plenty to cover and discuss–2011 is going to be a big year with some new features [...]

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In a year that has largely been defined by acquisitions and mergers within the e-commerce industry, along comes another one involving a big name. EBay has scooped up Milo.com, a site that facilitates both web and mobile searches for products from local brick and mortar retailers. The deal means Ebay can integrate Milo’s existing technology [...]

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‘Tis the season to start enticing consumers everywhere with promotions to attract their holiday shopping dollars! Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still weeks away, we can safely say that the holiday shopping season is already underway.  Maybe the widespread sales haven’t begun just yet, but merchants and those associated with the retail [...]

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It’s hard to believe, but Christmas is only about 65 days away.   As such, it’s not surprising that we’re already starting to see news on what items could be the most sought-after this holiday shopping season. Granted, year to year, popular product categories for the holidays tend to stay relatively the same—electronics, books, clothing, [...]

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It seems like good news has been hard to come by all year when it comes to retail sales forecasts and data.  While we keep hearing that the recession is over and that the economy is on the way back, retail sales data for most of 2010 seems to contradict such assertions. Of course, no [...]

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The retail industry has undergone a tremendous amount of change since the advent of e-commerce and online shopping.  Even in the year and a half or so since we started Junkie, we’ve seen the introduction of many new technologies and expanded online offerings that have had a huge impact on the way traditional brick and [...]

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In an interesting bit of news, AOL co-founder Steve Case’s investment company Revolution LLC has announced that it is taking a stake in online wine seller Vinfolio, in a move that would give the privately held company more clout in a growing sector of e-commerce. Terms of the deal were not made available. Case has [...]

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Our regular readers may think that we’ve started sounding a bit like a broken record lately. Whether it was in our coverage of Sortprice.com’s retailer application or the announcement that Facebook was changing how its users could support brand fan pages, Ecommerce Junkie has been arguing quite vociferously lately that the social networking giant is [...]

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In what we would consider a major indicator of just how much online shopping has permeated the American consumer culture, Amazon.com has become the top U.S. retail brand based on trust and customer recommendation according to a new study from research firm Millward Brown. Amazon was the only online-only outlet to crack the study’s top [...]

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Remember when your cell phone was literally just a phone?  Those days are long gone! Manufacturers have stretched their technological innovation to the point where cell phones have become a hub for many daily activities, including shopping. In that vein, mobile commerce, or m-commerce, is starting to become a very relevant and important component of [...]

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