November 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We recently got in touch with Thibaud Clement to find out more about his year-long ecommerce focused tour of the world that he has dubbed the DODEQA project. The DODEQA project is a 12 month, 12 city, 12 objective journey during which Clement will focus on gaining [...]
Crowdpark Allows Social Betting On Almost Anything
October 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Crowdpark is a Berlin-based company that creates social betting games which allow players to make bets in real time on anything going on in the world around them. The company’s first game is called Bet Tycoon and has approximately 500,000 players on Facebook. Crowdpark uses a “dynamic [...]
L2 Releases 2011 Digital IQ Index: Fashion
October 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team L2 recently released its third annual Digital IQ Index for fashion, which ranks the digital competence of 49 prestigious fashion brands. The index ranks the brands based on the effectiveness of their digital strategies across four categories: site, digital marketing, social media, and mobile. Brands were given [...]
Taobao Mall Teams Up With Smaller Rivals
September 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Taobao Mall, China’s largest virtual shopping mall, has recently decided to allow 38 smaller online retailers to open stores on its website as part of a new strategy to increase scale and revenue. The Chinese ecommerce solution provides a place for online retailers to set up a [...]
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Upgrades Mobile Commerce Platform
September 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has partnered with ecommerce software provider Cellulant to grow its mobile ecommerce clients. The new mobile banking platform, called Release 3.0, will allow the bank to create applications that will allow clients to do their banking and make online bill payments or other [...]
HMV Appoints New Leadership for Ecommerce Solution
September 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team HMV, a British entertainment media company whose name stands for “His Master’s Voice” (more about that later) has appointed Mark Hodgkinson to head up its ecommerce solution department and marketing efforts. Late of Asda (a British supermarket chain), Hodgkinson actually served as EMI’s (Electrical & Musical Industries) [...]
Zara Launches Ecommerce Software In U.S.
September 8, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Spanish fashion retailer Zara launched its first ecommerce solution in the United States Wednesday. To celebrate the launch of Zara’s online shop in the U.S. the company enlisted a variety of photographers to create a collection of 50 unique photographs representing each state. The collection is called [...]
SCVNGR and Topshop Bring Mobile Gaming to Back to School Shopping
August 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s that time of year again when students of all ages are getting ready to head back to school. Of course, what goes hand in hand is the marathon season of back-to-school shopping which includes finding (and being overloaded with) brick and mortar retailers and retailers set [...]
Chinese Luxury Ecommerce Solution Xiu Raises Money
August 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Xiu.com, a Chinese ecommerce solution that specializes in luxury goods just announced that it had pulled in 100 million dollars in investor financing from two groups. Warburg Pincus LLC and the China division of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (previous investors with Xiu who had already put [...]
Amazon’s Ecommerce Solution Takes Huge Slice of Global Cake
August 18, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team ComScore recently released another report (it’s kind of what they do) discussing the relative visitor numbers of the world’s leading ecommerce solutions. Big surprise, Amazon is leading the pack with an almost unbelievable 282 million unique visitors in June. According to the comScore’s calculations, that’s about 20% [...]
Delta Hotels Improves Ecommerce Software with MICROS
August 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team MICROS eCommerce Services|TIG Global, a leader in hotel/reservation ecommerce software has announced that their deepening their relationship with Delta hotels, a leading luxury hotel property company in Canada. Boasting almost fifty high quality locations across Canada, Delta has long been an important name in the Canadian hospitality [...]
Looting Causes Spike in Amazon UK Baseball Bat Sales
August 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Yup, it’s exactly what you think: when unrest and looting broke out in London and some other cities in England, the law abiding public did the only sensible thing: they took to their computers and went onto ecommerce solutions in search of ways to defend themselves. First [...]
Alibaba Ecommerce Solution Launching Linux Smartphone
August 10, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In the US, Android the open source OS smartphone/tablet alternative to the extremely closed system that is the Apple iOS. Based on a kernel of the Linux operating system (an open source desktop operating system which is actually being used to write this article), Android may be [...]
FinanceACar Poses A Threat To Dealerships – Receives Funding
August 4, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Imagine you’re wanting that Mercedes Benz C63 AMG really bad and you’re looking for the lowest financing possible. Thanks to FinanceACar you’re able to log on to an ecommerce solution, purchase your next car, and have it shipped to your home, rather than driving it off the [...]
Ecommerce Solution Alibaba Rolls Out Smart Phone
August 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Alibaba, a Chinese company best known for operating online ecommerce solutions like the consumer marketplace Taobao, has announced that it will be rolling out its own smartphone. The operating system that will power the device has been dubbed “Aliyun.” The OS is based off of using the [...]
Zynga and Cityville Venture to China – Without Facebook!
July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team How do you say “Cha-ching!” in Chinese (and in which dialect)? Zynga, whose massively popular social games are a hit on Facebook for computers and mobile devices alike, is launching its hottest game – “Cityville” – in China. Who won’t be there? Facebook. The world’s most popular [...]
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