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Google Shopping Can Save Shoppers Money Over Amazon
November 08, 2016

Everyone thinks Amazon is the way to go when trying to save money, but a new study shows that Google Shopping can be the cheaper route for cost-conscious shoppers. According to a new study by 360pi, the Canadian price monitoring company, while more than half...

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Shopify Sees eCommerce Sales Boost By 89 Percent
November 03, 2016

Shopify, the eCommerce platform that enables small and medium-sized businesses to reach customers across channels, experienced total revenue growth of 89 percent year-over-year in Q3. The company also confirmed that the value of the goods sold through the merchant sites on its platform increased 100...

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Newegg And A Month Of Black Fridays
November 02, 2016

While Christmas shopping and falling in love are not compared all that often, they do have one notable thing in common: The first place where it happens tends to be the place that makes the biggest impression. According to data out from InfoScout this week,...

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Analysts Predicting A Big Year For eCommerce In 2017
November 02, 2016

Going to be a good year for online retailers if analysts got their guess right. Sales are reportedly on track to reach $440 billion in 2017, a sizable pickup from the $395 billion expected, according to a recently released report. The study further noted that online...

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Vesta: Ghosts In The (Payments) Machine
November 01, 2016

Halloween isn’t over — not by a long shot — in the payments industry. And three big stats tell you why. 30 percent, 65 percent and 4. Vesta CMO Tom Byrnes explained what those scary statistics tied to eCommerce fraud mean in the latest installment...

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Report: The State of Buy Buttons On The Web
November 01, 2016

Take a wild guess. How many of the top 1,000 sites have buy buttons, 21 years after shopping online was born? You might be surprised — or not — depending upon how much online (and off-Amazon) shopping you actually do. PYMNTS, in collaboration with Abine,...

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Ringing In The eCommerce Christmas Season
October 31, 2016

American consumers have big plans for the holiday season when it comes to their shopping, according to a report. A new survey by Deloitte revealed that 50 percent of shoppers plan to shop online for their holiday gifts, spending roughly half (47 percent) of their...

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Walmart Bets $50M On China eCommerce Venture
October 31, 2016

Walmart made a big eCommerce investment in Chinese company New Dada, which is the country’s biggest on-demand logistics and grocery eCommerce platform. The deal comes shortly after the retail giant made three other large eCommerce initiatives in China. The $50 million investment in New Dada...

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India To Leapfrog US As eCommerce Hub?
October 28, 2016

India may hurdle the United States as the world’s second-biggest eCommerce market over the next two decades, research from Worldpay estimates. That shuffling of leading markets will come largely on the tailwinds of demographic shifts, such as India’s population skewing younger (as 70 percent of...