Archive for the E-Commerce Category
Posted on July 16, 2010 by Carsten Thoma
All it takes is one bad experience to turn a customer away — which is why the delivery of accurate and consistent product data across all channels is fast becoming one of the most important criteria for online and cross-channel success. Whether consumers visit a site to make a purchase, use their mobile devices to conduct research, or place a call to a contact center with a question, today’s etailers and online marketers need to be able to flow content and context across all channels with ease.
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Posted on July 15, 2010 by John P. Mello Jr.
Twitter on Wednesday launched its @earlybird service, aimed at providing its some 75 million members with daily deals and creating a revenue stream for itself. The first offering from the service was a discount on tickets to see the critically panned movie "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" from Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Posted on July 14, 2010 by Richard Adhikari
Zuora, a provider of on-demand subscription billing and payment services, was cofounded in March 2008 jointly by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou and K.V. Rao. It received $6.5 million in Series A funding later that month and $15 million in Series B funding in October of 2008. It has been profitable since.
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Posted on July 7, 2010 by Erika Morphy
Borders is expanding its reach into the e-book market with the launch of its e-bookstore, a site that holds 1.5 million titles and is powered by powered by Canadian company Kobo. Borders acquired a stake in the firm last year and sells the Kobo eReader at the online store, as well as the Sony Reader Pocket Edition and Sony Reader Touch Edition.
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Posted on June 23, 2010 by Diane Wang
Complicating the global financial crisis are many potential short and long-term impacts on B2B markets, particularly in the market where my own operations are based, China. From one perspective, the crisis could turn out to have been a good thing for small businesses, forcing them to become more efficient and adaptive, and thus better placed to be successful in the long term.
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Posted on June 7, 2010 by Harley Finkelstein
As a wide-eyed 17-year-old business undergrad living in Montreal, Canada, I was given a unique opportunity to make some well-needed spending money by buying and selling liquidations of branded t-shirts. The proposal put before me was simple enough; I would purchase 1,200 t-shirts from a Quebec-based liquidator, and open a small eBay shop in order to unload them on the open market.
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