Tag Archives: e-commerce

Sat 1st August 2015
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Mobile Now Accounts for Close to Half of China's Retail eCommerce Sales -

A new news from eMarketer.com shows that China is distant some-more mobile than a U.S. when it comes to ecommerce. Over 87% of all users in China frequently entrance a Internet with a mobile phone vs 74.6% in a U.S.

From a report:

Retail Mcommerce Sales in China, 2014-2019

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Tue 28th April 2015
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NoMoreRack.com rebrands to Choxi.com - Internet retailer NoMoreRack.com has rebranded, the name they chose is Choxi, according to the company it is hybrid of “Chock Full” and Choice. I can say I don’t get it. I don’t think the name is easily spelled when one customer may tell a potential new shopper. On top of that Target used to sell a brand of chocolates called Choxie. InternetRetailer.com reports that the move was partially due to a lawsuit (which was dismissed) filed by Nordstrom 3 years ago. In the article the Chief Marketing ... read more ...
Fri 10th April 2015
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Global e-Commerce Sales Projected to Hit $994.5 Billion This Year - Thad Rueter reported for InternetRetailer .com that global e-commerce sales are expected to hit $994.5 billion according to A.T. Kearney. The report cited the United States ahead of China for “online market attractiveness.” From the article: Global e-commerce sales will reach $994.5 billion this year, up 18.4% from $839.8 billion in 2014, according to a new forecast from A.T. Kearney. That compares to a 20.8% year-over-year increase in 2014, with a 16.1% increase anticipated for 2016, to $1.155 ... read more ...
Fri 27th February 2015
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Meet The Man Who Just Received 100,000 Shares in Jet.com - CNN Money published an article on Eric Martin of York, Pennsylvania, which is a two hour drive away from me. The article title was catchy, “This guy used a get rich quick scheme and got rich” When you read the article it seems Mr. Martin spent some money to get rich quick. We wrote an article earlier this month about Jet.com, the domain which was sold by legendary domain investor Garry Chernoff, is now looking to take on Amazon in the business of e-commerce. Jet.com was running an interesting ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2015
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SnapDeal Acquires Exclusively.com - Exclusively.com Acquired Medianama.com published an article on Exclusively.com getting acquired by SnapDeal, the company was originally Exclusively.in before getting the .com. From the article: Exclusively.in started as a flash sales site  but pivoted to a standard e-commerce model offering designer apparel and accessories in 2011. The company used to ship products only to the US and UK catering to but now ships to destinations in India and other global destinations too. Under the partnership ... read more ...
Thu 12th February 2015
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Jet.com Raises $140 Million to take on Amazon - Forbes did an article on Jet.com and them raising $140million for the launch of their ecommerce website. The company has been touted as a rival to Amazon. Jet.com founder Marc Lore knows a thing or two about Amazon as he founded Quidsi the company which Lore sold to Amazon for $550 million. From a domaining standpoint, legendary Canadian Garry Chernoff was the owner of Jet.com for many years and sold the domain to the company. From the article: Jet.com has yet to sell anything, but has already raised ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2015
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Indian Banks Offering A Service to Transfer Money Through Facebook - Fund transfer through Facebook is meant for tech-savvy customers, who have access to the internet round the clock, either through smartphones, tablets or laptops. The ATM-to-ATM fund transfer offered by some other banks also uses the same IMPS technology but caters to those who might not have access to the internet all the time. Here, you can transfer money from one bank account to another through the ATM. All you need is your debit card and PIN number. Let us look at how these fund transfer services ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2015
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Chinese Retailers Playing Poker in Empty Malls as Their Customers Shop Online - Online sales are having a real impact in China, and while that is good for companies like Alibaba and JD.com, it is taking a toll on the brick and mortar retailers, along with the property market. Bloomberg published an article that said that Chinese retailers are playing poker in empty malls, their customers have gone online. China Online JD.Com’s Liu started renting a booth in Zhongguancun in 1998 with an initial investment of 20,000 yuan. Back then, China had 2.1 million users connected to ... read more ...
Sat 31st January 2015
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Super Bowl Sunday and the impact on Online Sales - The Super Bowl and eCommerce Abbe Miller wrote a piece on Business2Community that looked at how big television events impact online sales both during and after the event. The article mentioned some stats from the previous two years culled from a couple different sources. Hashtags included  in ad spots jumped to 57%. Go Daddy decided to pull its puppy ad, Go Daddy has benefited greatly from Super Bowl ads in the past. According to PointRoll, the company saw a 45 percent increase in hosting and dot-com ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2015
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TechCrunch Covers TheDrop.Club: By Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator Partner Justin Kan - Techcrunch.com just covered TheDrop.club, what they describe as a “Digg/Reddit/Hacker News/Product Hunt for electronic dance music” The site is Thedrop.club and “Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator partner Justin Kan told TechCrunch: “I wanted something to create a constant stream of new electronic music tracks every day” TechCrunch.com goes on to describe the site: “Built on open-source curation interface Telescope and the SoundCloud API, The Drop.club lets you stream through a list ... read more ...
Mon 24th November 2014
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A Survivor of The Dot Com Bubble – Cufflinks.com - Maria Halkias of DallasNews.com wrote a piece on a survivor of the .com bubble of the late nineties. Cufflinks.com. Halkias did a good job conveying where the company is now and how it got there from those crazy bubble days of 1999 – 2000. From the article: Cufflinks.com was founded in 1999 during the dot-com bubble, when lots of startups were created based on the business model of a category word followed by “.com.” But this one survived beyond its cutesy domain name. And the company is thriving ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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Overstock Sees Positive Earnings Impact from Accepting Bitcoin - Overstock sees Bitcoin having a postitive effect on earnings for 2014. The company told Reuters they expect Bitcoin to add 4 cents per share, they are expecting $1.5 billion in sales for the year. From the article: Overstock.com Inc’s sales through bitcoin are expected to add 4 cents per share to its earnings this year, the online retailer’s chief executive, Patrick Byrne, told Reuters. Bitcoin sales at Overstock (OSTK.O), which started accepting this type of currency as payment for items on ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2014
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Flipkart Raises $1billion in appropriation – Largest ever for an Indian Internet Company - You may recall a little while back there were all those Flipkart domain purchases in various cctlds, well the company certainly could afford it as they have just completed the largest funding ever by an Indian Internet company. Total price amount in this set of 8 domain name sales is 41,875.00 USD; average price is 5,234.38 USD. The Hindu reported: India’s leading e-commerce retailer Flipkart announced on Tuesday that it has raised funds worth $1 billion (over Rs.6,000 crore), the largest-ever ... read more ...
Sat 26th July 2014
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e-Commerce might be a sizzle, though section and trebuchet stays a steak - e-Commerce is certainly one of the largest trends to affect business and culture over the past 25 years. In 2013 Amazon did $74.45 billion in revenue, but when compared to Walmart that number looks small. The Arkansas based retailer is close to half a trillion in sales. Find more statistics at Statista Barbara Thau wrote an article on Forbes that broke down a recent shopping preference study. The study conducted by A.T. Kearney, showed that people prefer brick and mortar shopping hands down. The ... read more ...
Fri 13th June 2014
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Priceline Group Acquires OpenTable for $2.6 Billion - Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com iClarified.com reported that Priceline has acquired OpenTable.com for $103 a share or $2.6 billion. From the article: Priceline has announced that they’ve entered into a definitive agreement whereby The Priceline Group will acquire OpenTable for $103 per share in an all cash transaction valued at $2.6 billion. Notably, OpenTable has been integrated into iOS by Apple, letting users make reservations via Siri. For instance, users can ask Siri to “Find a table ... read more ...
Fri 23rd May 2014
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RetailMeNot Sees it Stock Get Whacked By Google Algorithm Update - RetailMeNot is see its stock get hit hard by the recent Google algorithm change. Barry Schwartz wrote on Search Engine Land: On Tuesday, Google pushed out their revised Panda Algorithm code-named Panda 4.0. Panda is designed to remove low-quality content from Google’s search results. Yesterday, we published an early Winners Losers report on which large sites were impacted the most both in a positive and negative way. RetailMeNot was one of the larger sites on the losers list, where Searchmetrics ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2014
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Alibaba Group Files For Potentially The Biggest IPO in U.S. History - Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba files for IPO The Chinese company is kind of a big deal when it comes to e-Commerce in China, accounting for 80 % of sales. The company has garnered a lot of press over the last two days. Forbes covered it: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group filed registration documents on Tuesday to go public in the U.S. in what may be one of the biggest initial public offerings in American history. While the average U.S. consumer may be unfamiliar with Alibaba and its operations, ... read more ...