The search engine wars are on again just a few weeks before the holidays. Bing has recently launched a campaign against Google, specifically Google Shopping, which amusingly assigns a new name to Google: Scroogle. Bing is accusing Google of listing out all paid ads for its Google Shopping search results, which purportedly eliminates the “honesty” [...]
Black Friday e-commerce sales have been impressive, as reported by comScore, an authority in quantifying the digital world. Retail e-Commerce spending totaled to a whopping $1.042 billion on Black Friday, which translates to a 26 percent increase from the previous year. On Black Friday the population of Americans that visited online retail stores reached to [...]
Etsy.com is an online site designed to allow people to create online stores to sell their handmade products and items to the internet pubic at large. As one of the first of such stores, it has also become one of the most popular and the largest store of its kind. The Main Purpose of Etsy [...]
Written on 20 Sep 2012 by Vincent AbryBeyond the Rack is a Montreal-based private shopping club for men and women. Their e-commerce store offers designer brand apparel and accessories to members at discounts of up to 80 percent off the retail price. Authentic designer brands are obtained by Beyond the Rack and offered exclusively to their club members through limited time events. [...]
Written on 05 Sep 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook is a driving force in many areas – social media, advertising and memberships to name a few – but retailing does not appear to be a success for the social media giant. This came as quite a surprise to many large online retailers who jumped on the opportunity to set up shop only to [...]
PrestaShop is the first European Open-Source Platform for e-Commerce with 112,000 merchants. The online shopping solution is available in 41 languages in 150 countries. This software was developed in 2007 by french programmers Bruno Lévêque and Igor Schlumberger. PrestaShop is also available in a hosted solution via Prestabox. Direct Competitors are OsCommerce (260,000 shops) and Magento (100,000 merchants) or [...]
Written on 17 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryCyber Monday was born in the United States a few years ago. The term mades its debut November 28, 2005 on Shop.org. Less known than the Black Friday (the biggest sale event in United States), Cyber Monday is the Monday immediately following Black Friday. It’s very popular in the United States but also in Canada, [...]
Written on 28 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryWell now Google seems to do a little more in e-commerce, this time with a French sounding name, Boutiques.com. The site is in English only for now and it only applies to clothing and fashion accessories for women. The site includes several e- shops of different designers, bloggers and celebrities and you can create your [...]
Written on 17 Nov 2010 by Vincent AbryKelkoo, the best european price comparison website, sold to Yahoo in 2004 and then to Britain’s investment funds Jamplant Ltd in 2008, is out for an adventure in the United States. Well that said! Kelkoo is already dispensing its services to 10 different countries in Europe: Kelkoo.fr in France, but also in England, Germany, Italy, [...]
Japan’s Rakuten is really hungry. Its last acquisition is none other than the leading French e-commerce website, PriceMinister, for the sum of 200 million Euros. And this acquisition happens right a few weeks after that Rakuten bought Buy.com for US $250 million. PriceMinister wants to become the leading e-commerce website for the European market and [...]
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