December 9th, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Facebook commerce, or f-commerce, will undoubtedly be one of the fastest spreading ecommerce trends of 2012. Many mega-retailers have already begun to leverage f-commerce technology and create retail storefronts on the social media website. With more than 800 million active Facebook users globally, f-commerce is a great [...]
Walmart Enters F-Commerce Scene With ShopyCat
December 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Walmart, one of the highest grossing retailers on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, last week launched a holiday shopping gift-guide application on Facebook called Shopycat. Created by @WalmartLabs, Walmart’s tech shop in the Silicon Valley, the app is designed to help users with often difficult task [...]
6 Emerging Ecommerce Trends for 2012
December 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The successes of both Black Friday and Cyber Monday are encouraging signs for the ecommerce industry. Merchants worked hard this season to draw shoppers to their online stores and get them to fill their shopping carts. Record numbers of consumers flocked to retailers online storefronts to make [...]
Shopcade Integrates Social Networking and Ecommerce
November 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Shopcade has introduced a new social shopping application for Facebook users. Launched yesterday, Shopcade attempts to offer the millions of users on Facebook a true social shopping experience. The app allows users to browse, buy, and share products while [...]
Performics’ 2011 Social Shopping Survey Yeilds Interesting Results
October 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Millions of Internet users are members of social websites. In order to access that growing market, more and more retailers are utilizing social shopping platforms in addition to their ecommerce solutions. Just this week, Sociable Labs, a popular social ecommerce software provider, announced the $7 million success [...]
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 [...]
ShopIgniter Introduces New Social Ecommerce Solution
October 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Yesterday, social commerce platform ShopIgniter introduced an in-stream technology that will allow merchants to utilize Facebook users newsfeeds to create a more connected social ecommerce solution. ShopIgniter is a Portland-based social ecommerce software platform that aims to help retailers reach customers and revenue through social media platforms. [...]
StyleOwner Provides Ecommerce Solution For Fashion Bloggers
October 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team StyleOwner is a new site that allows fashion bloggers to create a virtual storefront and sell products from partner retail stores. Fashionistas who dream of opening their own store can become part of the virtual mall that StyleOwner creates and start selling items from more than 2,000 [...]
Is Groupon Sneaking onto the Scene of Ecommerce?
September 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Wednesday morning, daily deal site Groupon.com quietly rolled out their latest endeavor: Groupon Goods. Coming just one day after the introduction of Groupon Rewards, a customer loyalty program to officially launch next month, Groupon Goods features discounted direct buy products instead of their usual coupon deals. Unlike [...]
How Social Q&A Can Benefit Ecommerce Solutions
September 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team An online shopper is comparing cases for one of her most precious investments: her laptop. She wants to be sure she’s getting something that will do the job, and not just for a week, so she reaches out to her fellow ecommerce customers for opinions. Will our [...]
2011 Holiday Shoppers Look To Ecommerce Solutions
September 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Offering the right online deals to shoppers will be critical for retailers to attract customers this holiday shopping season. A recent survey by SteelHouse revealed that 82 percent of respondents will change the way they shop this year. Of those respondents, 62 percent plan to spend less [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Add a Kindle Daily Deal to Your Shopping Cart
August 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Do you have a Kindle? Read lots of books on your iPad with the Kindle App? Then you’re in luck! Today, Amazon announced the Kindle Daily Deal program, which will feature a different Kindle eBook everyday at a discounted price. Think of it as a Groupon for [...]
Group Commerce Acquires Geo-Location Startup Socialight
August 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Group Commerce, a New York based company that offers turn-key solutions for companies looking to offer their own daily deals, has acquired geo-location start-up Socialight. The Socialight team and technology will be put toward developing Group Commerce’s mobile strategy, Group Commerce CEO Jonty Kelt and Socialight founder [...]
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