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Amazon Acquires Woot - More than a Daily Deal Site
I just got off the phone with Matt Rutledge of Woot , who sounded remarkably grounded after making ...
Tuesday June 29, 2010
Amazon.com Experiences Outage
Amazon.com is having technical issues this afternoon. I can find reports on Twitter going back an ho ...
Monday June 28, 2010
eBay Survey Measures Perceptions about Top Rated Sellers
eBay conducted another survey last week - this one asked about sellers' sales on eBay and other si ...
Saturday June 26, 2010
eBay Angers Buyers and Sellers with Unpaid Item Emails
Yesterday (June 24), eBay began filing automatic UIDs (Unpaid Item disputes) on some purchases witho ...
Thursday June 24, 2010
eBay Tests New Placement of 'Ask Seller A Question' Link
eBay users were puzzled today when they couldn't find the link that lets them ask sellers questions ...
Alibaba.com Acquires eBay Service Provider Vendio
Alibaba has acquired Vendio (formerly AuctionWatch). Alibaba will integrate AliExpress and Vendio ec ...
Wednesday June 23, 2010
eBay Fails to Show in Court to Defend Itself in PayPal Lawsuit
The Detroit News reported that a federal court entered a default judgment against eBay in a laws ...
Monday June 21, 2010
Update: Michael Jones Leaves ChannelAdvisor, Headed for eBay
ChannelAdvisor has confirmed that Chief Revenue Officer Michael Jones has left the company, and rumo ...
Reality TV Shows for eBay Sellers and Collectors
The History Channel has two shows that appeal to collectors and dealers, and they are not without co ...
Thursday June 17, 2010
Ecommerce VP Brings eBay Philosophy to Google
Despite coming from eBay, Google's new Vice President of Ecommerce Stephanie Tilenius does not see s ...
Wednesday June 16, 2010
Could Amazon Replace Microsoft's Bing Cashback?
Citing an anonymous source, Business Insider says Amazon.com and Microsoft are in talks over a dea ...
Monday June 14, 2010
Will eBay's New Feedback Policy Impact Large Merchants?
As we wrote last month, eBay is launching a new policy that will allow users to filter a seller's fe ...
Friday June 11, 2010
PayPal Raises Merchant Fees for Refunds and Chargebacks
Online merchants will pay more in fees to PayPal beginning in August thanks to changes the company i ...
Thursday June 10, 2010
Live Blogging Google's Keynote from Stephanie Tilenius
Stephanie Tilenius, Vice President of Ecommerce for Google, will give a keynote address at today's ...
Wednesday June 9, 2010
Notes from the Floor of IRCE 2010
AuctionBytes Contributing Editor Greg Holden will be sending back reports from the Internet Re ...
Tuesday June 8, 2010
Internet Retailer Conference Kicks Off Today
It's an appropriately windy day in Chicago, and the Twittersphere is lighting up with tweets about t ...
Sunday June 6, 2010
eBay to Reveal Best Match Changes at This Week's DevCon
At its ninth annual developers conference taking place this week in San Jose, eBay will reveal chang ...
Friday June 4, 2010
Microsoft Retires Bing Cashback Program Citing Low Adoption
One year after renaming its Live Cashback program to Bing Cashback, Microsoft said it would retire t ...
Wednesday June 2, 2010
eBay CEO on Seller Fees: Still Cheaper than Amazon
eBay issued a press release about CEO John Donahoe's interview with Wall Street Journal tech colum ...
Social Commerce - Phenom or Failure?
Amazon.com is the king of "boring" shopping, according to Etsy founder Rob Kalin, who made the state ...