August 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team There are so many daily deals ecommerce solutions flying around these days it can be nearly impossible to keep track of them. No one knows this better than us here at Zippycart, but one company, Bellevue-based “Choozon,” is poised to make that increasingly crowded playing field easier [...]

August 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Google Ventures has decided to take a share in online coupon ecommerce solutions. Today, WhaleShark Media has announced that they received a $10 million round in funding from Google. This puts their funding total up to $133 million since inception. The company was founded in 2009 and [...]

August 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Push Pop Press, maker of innovative ebooks for the iPad, has just been acquired by Facebook. But don’t start thinking that this means you’ll soon be putting ebooks in your shopping cart directly from Facebook (though there are already a ton of ecommerce solutions with integrated shopping [...]

August 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We’re seeing some more controversy in the world of ecommerce solutions, and this time it has to deal with Amazon.  Mobile developer, Shifty Jelly, has a bone to pick with the company’s revenue practice – but is it warranted? Amazon has been featuring one mobile application a [...]

August 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team So you’re off to college next month (or maybe late this month). Good for you! Your life is about to change, filled with challenging classes, opportunities to meet new and interesting people, and all the other things that go with college. One of the most annoying parts [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Every ecommerce solution prides itself on safety and security. This is a vital part of making sure that customer feels confident spending money on their site. If your customers don’t trust your site to keep their sensitive personal information safe, then they certainly won’t be making any [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Online pricing intelligence helps users determine when to buy a product, hold off until the price drops, or wait for the newer model to come out. Channel IQ helps do this for businesses. They aim to help their client know when a competitor’s price will change, or [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Finally some good news for owners of Apple TV.  Users now have the ability to stream TV shows they purchased from the iTunes  store, and in addition watch videos from the popular video-hosting site Vimeo. Vimeo is known for allowing user-updated HD video.  This is all thanks [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team More and more daily deal sites have been popping up in the the world of ecommerce solutions.  Today, Dealmap was acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount.  The website claims to have 2 million users that check the site regularly for daily deals.  Dealmap currently has 450 [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The worlds largest ecommerce solution, Amazon, has opened its fifth annual AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest that recognizes creative uses of its cloud computing platform. Amazon believes that cloud services are a great fit for startups.  The reason for this being that smaller sized companies can become [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The mobile payment sector is going to have a huge impact on the consumer world. Various mobile ecommerce payment solutions have announced their entry to the market, without the actual entry part. Google Wallet intends to use NFC chips and receivers for users to pay each other [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Everything is bigger in Texas, including its hosted ecommerce solutions. Austin-based ecommerce software provider, BigCommerce has recently raised $15 million in Series A Funding, to further its initiative to bring small to mid-size businesses to the online storefront. The round was lead by General Catalyst Partners, a [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The popular Redmond-based ecommerce solution that allows users to share photos and create digital products, Smilebox, will be acquired by IncrediMail for $25 million in cash, plus $15 million if certain milestones are met.  Smilebox was founded in 2005 by Andrew Wright, who previously was an executive [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The issue of taxation has often plagued ecommerce solutions, confusing even the various people who have made it their business to sort this whole thing out. As it stands now, shoppers on ecommerce solutions only have to pay sales tax if they buying from a company that [...]

August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A little while back we discussed Zynga filing for their initial public offering to help raise $1 billion. They were (and still are) in the middle of a lawsuit with Vostu, in which Zynga is the plaintiff. The social gaming ecommerce solution is now in another legal [...]

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 [...]