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 [...]

August 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Hot on the heels of hearing about how Expedia, Groupon, and a host of other travel/group deals ecommerce solutions have been and are still changing the travel game for vaction-hungry shoppers, comes an Adweek/Harris poll that shows significant percentages of Americans working on their vacations. The doesn’t [...]

August 1, 2011 By Paul Chaney, Internet marketing and social media consultant Much of my work is devoted to training small business owners, marketing professionals and ecommerce merchants on the value of using social media for marketing. While most are enthusiastic, invariably a question I am always asked is, “How do I afford the time [...]

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 [...]

July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Expedia, a Bellevue, Washington-based ecommerce site for travel booking and accomodations has announced this week a 23 percent increase during its second quarter to launch the company over $1 billion in earnings for the first time in its history. Well, guess who’s having the best second quarter [...]

July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The world is a hectic, fast-paced, busy place, and it’s only getting bigger, busier, and more crowded. Luckily, a unique app with a one-of-a-kind integrated ecommerce software system is helping people with not enough time hook up with people with not enough cash to create the ultimate [...]

July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Groupon may be all the rage for deal-a-day sites here in the States, but Snapdeal.com is the one making waves in India. The country of 1.21 billion loves the New Delhi-based deal-a-day site, which also offers a products and “getaways” page. The company announced today that it [...]

July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team For those of us living life in four dimensions (time being the most often-overlooked dimension), buying 3D products may seem like a step backwards, but science and commerce have colluded to produce numerous 3D products for the unsuspecting masses to put in their shopping carts. If you [...]

July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If outward appearances mean anything, it certainly looks like Amazon is preparing to compete with the streaming side of Netflix. Amazon could be getting ready to ramp up the streaming content available to its Amazon Prime subscribers. This is just the latest development in what seems like [...]