May 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Open source ecommerce solution provider Magento announced Monday that it will be partnering with Listrak, a e-mail marketing solutions firm. With the partnership comes Listrak’s fully-integrated Magento Extension, which includes solutions for shopping cart abandonment, purchase cadence optimization and click and conversion tracking. Merchants using the Magento [...]

May 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Miramax and Netflix have just signed a landmark deal that brings a huge back catalog of classic films to their flagship streaming video ecommerce software platform. The deal comes in the midst of ongoing shakeups in the world of streaming video and movie sales. Netflix has been [...]

May 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team According to rumor, users of the online retailer Amazon.com may soon be able to fill their shopping carts with an “entire family” of Android devices this holiday season. A blogger for the tech website androidandme claims to have obtained information face-to-face from an industry insider and also [...]

May 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The Kansas City Royals announced in a press release Monday that the club will host an online auction to benefit Heart to Heart International, a global humanitarian organization that specializes in deploying volunteers to aid those in need of medical care all over the world. Heart to [...]

May 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The tablet wars are still going hot. With the early adoption of the Kindle and the latest-greatest styling and promotion of the iPad, it looked like the Nook might be lost to obscurity. Lacking industry-leading features, mega-promotion, or a huge ecommerce software platform from which to launch [...]

May 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Walmart announced that it was working with Chinese ecommerce solution Yihaodian to acquire a minority stake in the company. The move represents another step in Walmart’s slow, steady march into China, their continued action within the Chinese ecommerce sphere, and their shoring up position in the world [...]

May 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Several items that belonged to Ted Kaczynski, more commonly known as the Unabomber, will be up for auction beginning Wednesday, May 18. The criminal’s personal affects are being sold by the U.S. Marshals Service after a two-year delay. All of the items up for auction were obtained [...]

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. [...]

May 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team According to a press release Thursday, New York-based Facebook content managing company Buddy Media has acquired Spinback, a New York-based startup that provides social analytics and ecommerce solutions for over 20 retailers. For Buddy Media, which currently manages Facebook content for eight of the top ten global [...]

May 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Amazon’s least expensive version of the Kindle has reached the top of the ecommerce solution’s list of Bestsellers in Electronics. The e-reader is currently available for $114. That’s $25 less than versions that do not support ads. Amazon began shipping the ad-supported Kindle just a few weeks [...]

May 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In an act that makes Facebook look like the jealous girlfriend not getting all the attention, the social network giant took to a PR company to “smear” Google’s privacy policy reputation. Meanwhile, Google closes on one of its best weeks ever this year with its must-like, must-tweet [...]

May 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Research suggests that increases in revenue for ecommerce solutions may be connected to the rise in gas prices. According to a recent study conducted by global marketing research firm Synovate, nearly 30% of U.S. consumers say that rising gas prices are keeping them from leaving home. Instead [...]

May 12, 2011 By Aura Talbott, lead blogger, Miva Merchant For many people, customer service conjures up mental images of standing in line at a store counter, hoping to have your question answered by a knowledgeable expert. Ecommerce merchants know that online customer service is an entirely different thing. When you can’t interact with customers [...]

May 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Support for Japan in the wake of the terrible earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crises just keeps coming. A crowd-sourced, Twitter-driven eBook chronicling the event and its aftermath is available online. The project took a little over a month to put together and all proceeds will go towards [...]

May 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Those waiting patiently for the release of the Droid Charge or thought that upgrading to a 4G LTE smartphone was just a bit out of their price range could be in for a change of heart. Amazon is now offering the HTC Thunderbolt for just $129.99 through its [...]

May 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The digital and mobile payments pool is getting murkier with another big name competitor jumping in. Visa has announced it will be launching a viable ecommerce solution through its new “digital wallet” which will enable consumers to pay for goods and services through their smartphones. The announcement [...]