Facebook 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 [...]
Cyber 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, [...]
Well 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 [...]
Kelkoo, 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 [...]
