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 [...]

August 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team After just a year since its own public launch of daily deals, the social review site Yelp has raised the white flag and is the latest contender to bow out of the daily deal business competition. The announcement comes on the heels of social network giant Facebook, [...]

August 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Adyen, a leader in international payment processing for ecommerce solutions and other businesses has announced a partnership with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The deal will extend a new suite of services to SVB client companies that will improve their ability to accept payments in different countries around [...]

August 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s no secret that ecommerce solutions are most successful when offering free shipping to their customers. It’s been proven that when a company offers free shipping for online customers, sales increase and customer satisfaction follows suit. Often times, these companies are more successful than those that charge [...]

August 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The US economy has been taking a pretty solid pounding lately. The budget debacle in Washington resulted in a credit downgrade that sent shockwaves through the stock market and ended up with some pretty significant losses. Next an incredibly rare East Coast earthquake sent Twitter accounts from [...]

August 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the nation, announced its most recent investment in Yihaodian, an ecommerce company based in China, with the goal  of acquiring a minority stake in the company. The terms of the deal were not immediately available. China boasts the world’s fastest growing economy, [...]

August 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you’ve ever set up an ecommerce solution or have been thinking about just adding a shopping cart to your existing website, then you’ve probably looked into a variety of ecommerce software packages. CoreCommerce has been on our list of top ecommerce software companies for a long [...]

August 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team There are so many ecommerce software systems out there, it can be hard to keep them all straight in your head. Many of them offer similar pricing structures and features. Some of them even sound similar (Core Commerce or Big Commerce?). But one ecommerce solution is out [...]

August 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team This is a strange, uncertain time for businesses of all kinds. For ecommerce solutions, brick-and-mortar stores, and everything in between, there seems to be no surefire way to tell how your company is going to perform. You’d expect with a general recession, an unpredictable stock market, and [...]

August 29, 2011 By Tamsin Ingot of lastminuteskideals.co.uk The travel industry has always been known for innovation in terms of marketing and promotion. From TV ads and direct mail to online advertising, travel companies have explored countless avenues in order to secure new business. One of the key elements for any travel company, though, is [...]

August 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Do you have a great idea for an online store, but you’re not sure how to get started without spending a lot of money to hire a developer to design and build it for you? Maybe you currently sell products online, but via a third party site [...]

August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We always love it when we get a chance to sit down with a dedicated ecommerce professional and get some inside insight on their unique part of the ecommerce world. This week we’re lucky enough to have Peter Caparso, President North America for Adyen, an electronic payment [...]

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: [...]

August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We’ve all been there. You hear a song on the radio or in a bar or restaraunt and you think: “What’s the name of this song? I want it!” Well, the people behind the mobile app SoundHound have come to the rescue of many music lovers. They [...]

August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The world of gaming is constantly changing, and the industry has started to show significant support for a change in content delivery. What used to be an industry dependent on physical media delivery is now a business focusing on online content delivery, via the “cloud”. A new [...]

August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It was just in March there were murmurs about a new startup under the name Jumio raising millions of dollars from one of Facebook’s co-founder, but remained in stealth mode, piquing the interests of the tech world. Then last month, people were introduced to why Jumio was [...]