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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Forever 27: Amy Winehouse Music Sales Surges
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team One of the most sobering moments in life is the untimely passing of a talented artist at a young age. Consider those in the music industry — Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, all young artists who have mysteriously passed at the [...]
French School Teacher Loses Internet Privileges
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team For those of you who hate going through ecommerce solutions to actually buy music or movies, do not go to Europe to steal your media! Unlike running nude on beaches and a huge beer festivals, the internets of Europe are tightly controlled. And with a newly implemented [...]
Parental Advisory Labels Coming to the Internet
June 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team For about 16 years now parents have been able to easily understand which CDs and movies to prevent their kids from purchasing via ratings and the universal Parental Advisory sticker. But now the question arises, what to do about online content? As buying patterns shift away from [...]
eBay Ecommerce Solution Sports Stylish Princess Hat
May 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The British love hats, and the recent royal wedding (which generated tons of ecommerce action, real world sales, and media coverage in insane amounts) gave the world a unique look at the lengths that the Brits will go to all for the sake of a great hat. [...]
Belgian Student Sells Virginity For 50K Online
May 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team For those of us that have been to Amsterdam, we are all well aware of, and in some instances may have partaken in, certain activities and/or endeavors not available (legally at least) in the US. One of the most common diversions many tourists and locals alike have [...]
Microsoft Says Adios to Ciao
April 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In a move that would undo an acquisition it made only a little over 2 years ago, Microsoft is set to dump European comparison shopping subsidiary “Ciao.” The comparison shopping engine was part of parent company Greenfield Online Inc. Other constituent subsections of Greenfield, such as their [...]
Kate Middleton Dolls Take Over Top Ecommerce Searches
April 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The online sale of Royal Wedding commemorative products has reached fever pitch as these are the final days leading to the upcoming April 29 nuptials. Internet searches and shopping carts on both sides of the Atlantic have been eagerly filled with royal related terms and products. According [...]
Gilt Group Ecommerce Solution Picks Ireland for Corporate HQ
April 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Gilt Groupe, an ecommerce solution specializing in upscale, invite-only bargains for members has chosen Dublin for its corporate HQ. The expansion is a big win for Ireland, a country that has been aggressively pushing for more high technology jobs of late, earning it the nickname, “the technology [...]
Kate Middleton’s Face on a Jelly Bean and Other “Royal” Items to Buy
April 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team With all the buzz the upcoming Royal Wedding has created comes with it a slew of royal-esque items for sale/to hock online. It seems anything with Kate Middleton or Prince William’s images attached to it (whether authentically made or not), will go for a pretty penny as [...]
Rare Sex Pistols Acetate on eBay, God Save the Queen Indeed!
April 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team An original 10-inch acetate of the Sex Pistols’ single God Save The Queen is on its last day at auction on eBay. The auction has clearly sparked a nostalgia from the U.K across to the U.S. of a time when punk was a big movement and the [...]
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