Jack Ma, Alibaba’s ambitious founder and executive chairman, has some equally ambitious plans for the future of his eCommerce giant. He wants Alibaba’s sales to become the equivalent of the world’s fifth-richest country in four years. That means that, by 2020, Ma wants Alibaba —...
Every good driver knows to check their blind spots — those pesky areas you may not notice are dangerous until it’s too late. Well, overcoming the challenge of checkout conversion is really no different. Scott Fitzgerald, SVP at BlueSnap, joined Karen Webster to discuss what...
Any retailer who has not already invested heavily in a mobile-friendly interface and in-house app might be wishing they had. Demandware, an eCommerce software provider, claims that “mobile-first” is long gone, and we are now “on the fast track to mobile-only.” Demandware’s latest data shows the...
In case retailers and merchants need more evidence about the power of mobile, Demandware, the eCommerce software company acquired by Salesforce earlier this month, has found that 45.1 percent of web shopping traffic happened on a smartphone in the first quarter of 2016. What’s more,...
There are certainly no shortage of online marketplaces out there, but only one of them has attached itself to the epithet of “Amazon killer.” For better or worse, that honor over the last 12 months has gone to Jet.com, and as it celebrates its first...
Doing some work to counteract the image that eBay is struggling with since its amicable divorce with PayPal, eBay has posted its second straight quarter of sales gains. The market surely took the results as a sign of a corner being turned, as stocks were...
It looks like StubHub is getting an upgrade – care of parent company eBay’s latest acquisition. eBay has snatched up Ticket Utils, a firm that specializes in the software that manages ticket distribution to multiple services. That technology will now be folded into StubHub – though StubHub...
After four years running Alibaba-backed eCommerce platform ShopRunner, Scott Thompson is stepping down from the role of CEO to pursue a new entrepreneurial venture. The company announced on Tuesday (July 12) that Sam Yagan, former CEO of Match Group, will now take the reins at...
Blue Acorn, the company that says it uses “data to turn eCommerce into science,” is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs but says its business is still growing, according to The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. Blue Acorn Chief Executive Kevin Eichelberger said...
