December 29, 2011 By Outright.com There are two kinds of posts that are inevitable this time of year. One is the never-ending barrage of holiday posts, telling you everything and anything you would ever want to hear about buying and selling. The other, of course, is the end-of-the-year-get-ready-for-tax-season post. We hate to tell you, but [...]
Social Ecommmerce Solution Sociable Labs Raises $7 Million
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Social ecommerce solution provider Sociable Labs has raised $7 million in a Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures. The announcement came Wednesday after the company emerged out of stealth. Existing investor Javelin Venture Partners also contributed to this round of funding. Sociable Labs, a 25-person [...]
Dropbox Secures $250 Million; Competes With iCloud
October 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Dropbox announced Tuesday that it has secured $250 million in a Series B round of funding led by Index Ventures. Dropbox is a company that uses cloud storage technology to provide a place where users can store and share files on the Internet. The service boasts 50 [...]
Shopify Announces $15 Million in Funding
October 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce platform Shopify announced Monday that it has accumulated $15 million in Series B financing. The primary investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Felicis Ventures, and Georgian Partner. The Ottawa, Canada start-up is a popular platform for businesses who are looking for an ecommerce solution but [...]
4 Steps to Getting the Right High-Risk Merchant Account
October 17, 2011 By Tina Brandon, Vice President of PayNetSecure.net Happy Guest Blogger Monday! This week our guest talks about establishing the high-risk merchant account that’s right for your ecommerce solution. Without this knowledge, you might be at risk yourself–for winding up without a merchant account. VP of PayNetSecure.net Tina Brandon guides you through four [...]
CrowdTwist Provides Ecommerce Solution For Brands; Rewards Fans
September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team CrowdTwist is a new tool that allows brands to track and measure audience interaction across all online social channels. The CrowdTwist platform integrates itself into a brands website and connects to all of the brand’s social media channels to provide data about consumer engagement and ROI. It [...]
Founder Of GSI Commerce Launches New Ecommerce Solution
September 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Michael G. Rubin, founder of GSI Commerce, announced the launch of his new holding company Kynetic Monday. The ecommerce solution entrepreneur’s launch of Kynetic comes after he sold GSI Commerce to eBay this year for $2.4 billion. Rubin spent 12 years building up GSI’s network to service [...]
Trunk Club Sends Men Personalized Outfits
September 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Chicago-based service Trunk Club caters to men who don’t like to shop but still want to look good. Many men don’t enjoy shopping at the mall, shuffling in and out of fitting rooms, or taking the time to fill their shopping carts on the Internet. This fact [...]
ICM Registry Releases .xxx Domains in Sunrise Period
September 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Attention ecommerce solutions, startups, public figures, cities, and other things with names: if you don’t want to see yourself associated with a .xxx domain, now is the time to act. The sun rose Wednesday on ICM Registry’s sunrise period (see what we did there?), giving trademark owners [...]
Amazon.com Pushes for California Tax Exemption; Lawmakers Push Back
September 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce giant Amazon.com is trying to back out of a new sales tax law. In June, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring online businesses outside of California to collect taxes on sales made through in-state affiliates. The tax went into effect July 1, but it appears [...]
GlobalCollect Partners with DemandWare for Pre-Built Ecommerce Solutions
August 31, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team GlobalCollect has announced an official partnership with Demandware and their LINK community. Demandware is a firm whose ecommerce solutions aim to help eliminate some of the many problems retailers face when integrating front end technologies into their ecommerce solutions. Think of it as on-demand ecommerce functionality. As [...]
Carriers Prepare to Invest $100 M In ISIS Mobile Payment
August 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Near Field Communication (NFC) is widely considered the next frontier in the mobile payment world. Multiple tech heavyweights are preparing their NFC solutions, including Google. Eventually, even online purchases may be possible via NFC scanners. Today, the three major US wireless carriers announced their plan to invest [...]
Yipit.com: Groupon and Travel Sites Are Up, LivingSocial is Down
August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Yipit.com recently compiled, analyzed and released sales and traffic data from the top Daily Deal sites for the month of July. Overall, July was not a memorable month for the daily deals industry, though there were a few clear winners. The results are not all that surprising: [...]
Ecommerce Solution Tinypay.me Moving from NL to San Fransisco
August 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The San Fransisco area is a hotbed for the tech industry. From established companies such as Apple to sucessful start ups like Airbnb, the Bay Area plays host to some very exciting new ideas. Today, ecommerce site Tinypay.me announced that it is using some of it’s new [...]
New Debit Card Rules May Benefit Ecommerce Solutions
August 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Less than two months ago, the Federal Reserve Board issued a ruling that would reduce fees for purchases made using debit cards. Already the survey group “Internet Retailer” has conducted a thorough survey of ecommerce solution owners to see how the newly reduced fees would impact their [...]
How Will the S&P Downgrade Impact Ecommerce Retailers?
August 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team By now everyone (or pretty much everyone) is aware that the United States, which enjoyed the highest possible credit rating on its sovereign debt (AAA) has been downgraded for the first time ever by Standard & Poor, a worldwide credit rating agency. The markets showed bumpy fluctuations [...]
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