After some stumbles in its last several earnings reports, eBay managed to stage something of a surprise for watchers last night as sales went up for the first time in five quarters and earnings beat The Street’s expectations. The result clocked in despite FX pressures...
Finding technology and eCommerce to be a natural marriage, Pitney Bowes continues to expand from the former into the latter. Yesterday (April 26), the company announced the launch of a cloud-based payments engine that integrates with third-party shipping and eCommerce platforms. The payments processing aspect...
After expanding its Prime Now Restaurant Delivery to San Diego earlier this year, Amazon has now added the service farther up the California coast. The eCommerce giant announced yesterday (April 26) that Prime Now Restaurant Delivery has launched in San Francisco. According to a company...
While Amazon’s push to expand Prime membership shows no signs of slowing, it initially appeared that the latest move in that regard was focused directly on gamers (especially those who also happen to be cinephiles), but perhaps, the situation isn’t that cut-and-dry. On Friday (April...
While Square is going after Stripe (and BlueSnap, and PayPal, etc.) with its recent offering that allows merchants to accept payments online, it appears that First Data is hot on its tail. After, earlier this year, launching Clover Go — which competes with Square in the...
Once known as the “fast” and “cheap” option for online goods, it seems Amazon is now looking to add “couture” to the list of descriptors of the seemingly endless menu of products and services it offers. According to Bloomberg, Amazon has recently announced that it is...
As the week is coming to an end – and the payments and commerce circus is getting ready to roll up the tent for a few days – we have our last set of fun and fabulous factoid for Friday. This week we learned from...
Omnichannel isn’t only about helping merchants cross the digital/physical chasm, says Magento CEO Mark Lavelle. The need to integrate across all of the online and mobile channels that merchants and consumers touch is just as important and every bit as complex. Lavelle tells Karen Webster...
An Israeli startup is wiggling into the search engine game, but the company it’s most likely to compete with isn’t Google — it’s Amazon. VentureBeat reports that Twiggle, founded in 2013, announced yesterday (April 7) a $12.5 million Series A funding round led by South African...