It was pretty obvious based on its Singles’ Day mobile figures that Alibaba had already secured the title for the leader in mobile commerce. Alibaba’s Q3 earnings results confirmed that position when Alibaba showed its full hand of just how much that mobile momentum had...
eBay’s fourth-quarter results show that eBay is making improvements in its post PayPal split, but there are still some major hurdles to clear. Like its Marketplace segment, the component dragging its earnings down each quarter. The early guidance given Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 27) sent eBay’s stock down...
On Jan. 18, MPD CEO Karen Webster wrote a column titled “Massive Online Retail Data Error Uncovered” that pulls together how the Census undercounts eCommerce sales. Taking from the research of her colleagues at MPD, economists Drs. David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee, and data analytics...
After 17 weeks in the regular season and another three for the postseason, the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos finally know that they’ll meet each other at Super Bowl 50 in San Francisco. But as the players and coaches take the next two weeks to...
For merchants with a specialized product offering and unique brand voice that are expanding their online operations, there’s a challenge in scaling up without losing what makes them special. This was the position that high-end lingerie retailer SOL found itself in; the company turned to...
The “Amazon experience” one click checkout – is what every merchant aspires to deliver. Klarna’s North America CEO North America Brian Billingsley and Provenir MD Paul Thomas tell MPD CEO Karen Webster that starts with authenticating the consumer behind the scenes and integrating credit into...
Shorting the stocks of online merchants whose volumes are exploding: unthinkable, right? Not to Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap, who explains to MPD CEO Karen Webster that some 40 percent of eCommerce merchants’ sales never convert — and the merchants aren’t even aware of it....
According to data released Tuesday (Jan. 19) from Adobe Digital Index (ADI), the 2015 holiday season saw consumers spending nearly $83 billion online, a 12.7 percent increase over what was spent during the same time in 2014. “We originally predicted 11 percent growth year over...
ERated, an online seller profiling company, announced Tuesday (Jan. 19) that it closed a $1.7 million seed round. The company provides online marketplace users with a profiling solution, which it plans to accelerate with its new capital to establish a more “unified, holistic user profile...
