Lost amid the rancorous debate over raising the debt ceiling, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Friday afternoon rolled out proposed legislation that would clear the way for a federally-mandated online sales tax in states that participate in the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SST). The Main Street Fairness Act would essentially reverse the Supreme Court’s 1992 [...]
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Congress Eyes Federal Sales Tax Bill
Posted in Online Sales Taxes, tagged Amazon, eBay, internet tax, Main Street Fairness Act, Online Sales Taxes, SST, Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement on August 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
eBay Buys Magento and Adds it X.Commerce Plan
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged eBay, eBay Buys Magento, Magento, open source e-commerce platforms, X.Commerce on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Apparently, acquiring a minority stake in open source ecommerce platform Magento for more than $22 million last year wasn’t enough for eBay. The online auction site announced this week that it has agreed to buy the rest of the company and will own 100 percent of Magento’s outstanding shares once the transaction is completed. Terms [...]
ValueClick Adds Greystripe for $70 Million
Posted in Ecommerce, Mobile Commerce, Online Sales Taxes, tagged eBay, Greystream Inc., m-commerce, mobile advertising, mobile commerce, mobile shopping, ValueClick on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Not to be outdone by eBay’s acquisition of a mobile advertising services provider last week , online marketer ValueClick has picked up one of its own. ValueClick announced today that it will pay about $70 million in cash for the brand-focused mobile ad network Greystripe, Inc. With its own online ad network (ValueClick Media) and [...]
eBay, With an Eye on Local and Mobile Expansion, Buys Where
Posted in Ecommerce, Mobile Commerce, Online Shopping, tagged eBay, eBay and Where, Local shopping, m-commerce, mobile commerce, PayPal, Where on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The steady stream of e-commerce acquisitions keeps rolling along as eBay has announced a plan to buy Where, which provides advertising services, mobile apps and search capabilities that enhance local shopping. Full terms of the deal were not disclosed by either party. It’s expected to close officially by the end of the second quarter of [...]
AmEx Jumps into the Payment Processing Game
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, tagged American Express, AmEx, eBay, online payments, payment processing, PayPal, Serve on March 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Watch out, PayPal! Ebay’s popular online payment processing system is about to get a fierce competitor with a big name behind it—American Express. AmEx announced today the launch of its own digital payment platform called Serve, which will enable consumers to make payments online and transfer funds to other individuals as well. Retailers in the [...]
EBay Acquires GSI Commerce
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Uncategorized, tagged e-commerce acquistions, eBay, GSI, GSI Commerce, Skype on March 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Ebay announced this morning that it will acquire e-commerce and marketing solutions provider GSI Commerce in a cash and debt deal that will be worth about $2.4 billion. It would represent the online auction site’s priciest acquisition since its failed takeover of Skpe in 2005. “The acquisition of GSI, which offers the most comprehensive integrated [...]
PayPal Brings in Blackhawk CEO to Lead Upcoming Expansion Efforts
Posted in People, tagged Blackhawk, Don Kingsborough, eBay, Pay Pal Inc., payment systems on March 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
With an aggressive expansion plan in the works that will fundamentally change the way it does business, PayPal Inc. has hired Blackhawk Network CEO and found Don Kingsborough to head up efforts that will eventually see the payment processing service in more physical storefronts as it aims to better compete with the likes of Visa [...]
Usablenet and PayPal Join Forces
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged eBay, m-commerce, mobile commerce, Pay Pal, Usablenet on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve predicted time and again that mobile commerce would continue the coming out party it enjoyed last year here in 2011. And even though we’re not even out of January yet, it seems as though big things are already in motion that could have m-commerce exceeding even the largest of expectations. Case in point: two [...]
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