March 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team On Monday, eBay announced its plans to acquire GSI Commerce, a provider of ecommerce solutions and interactive marketing services, paying $29.25 per share, or $2.4 billion in total. The company will finance the acquisition with cash and debt, anticipating the deal will close in the third quarter [...]

March 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Groupon and LivingSocial have been considered to be the daily deal sites that started the craze of deeply discounted consumer goods. To this day that marker still stands, but it hasn’t stopped DealPulp from wedging their way into a heavily saturated market with a daily deal site [...]

March 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Thanks to the fashion gods (or economy), buying second hand is no longer a style snafu but rather the way of the modern fashionista. Combining people’s love for inexpensive, new and used fashions and social networking, comes Smashion, an online marketplace that allows users to connect through [...]

March 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The US’s largest drugstore operator, Walgreen Co., recently announced its plans to buy online pharmacy DrugStore.com, in an acquisition said to be valued at around $429 million. This will be Walgreen’s largest acquisition since its April 2010 purchase of Duane Reade, which made it the biggest drugstore [...]

March 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Jacques-Antoine Granjon first set the bar for what a private flash sales site should be like with Vente Privée back in 2001. Now Granjon is rolling in the big bucks, billions in fact, thanks to the wild success Vente Privée has turned out to be. Carrying the [...]

March 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team As ZippyCart last reported, the rise of ecommerce will not be seeing a slow down anytime soon, as confirmed in a report by technology research firm, Forrester, who projected US ecommerce sales will grow to $279 billion by 2015. What this means is that people enjoy putting [...]

March 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Gemvara, a Boston-based ecommerce company that lets consumers custom make jewelry online, recently locked in $15 million from a Series C funding led by UK-based venture capital firm Balderton Capital. The company, originally founded under the name Paragon Lake in 2006, changed its name in 2010 and [...]

March 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Crowdflower, a unique ecommerce software startup that provides crowdsourced human labor for routine, repetitive tasks, has just secured $7 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Harmony Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners. This round of funding brings Crowdflower’s total money raised [...]

March 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Over the last few years, the needs of online merchants have evolved. To keep up with this, the top ecommerce software solutions have had to focus on merchant expectations in order to continue to grow and expand their business. Some solutions have embraced changes, while others still [...]

March 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Is there anything that Facebook can’t or won’t do? With the announcement that they have formed a subsidiary called “Facebook Payments,” it seems that they are getting pretty serious about incorporating more ecommerce solutions into their already wildly successful social network. Soon users could be paying for [...]

March 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Web-based photo-sharing and printing company Shutterfly recently announced their acquisition of personalized card and stationary site, Tiny Prints. The deal, which is expected to close within the next month or two, will include a cash sum of $141 million and around 3.9 million stock shares valued at [...]

March 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The wait is over! If rumors are true, the Amazon Appstore officially launches the same day Angry Birds sequel: Rio debuts. Those Android users and Angry Birds’ fans who have anxiously waited to fill their Amazon shopping carts with apps can relax now. But not you, Google, [...]

March 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Beetailer, a Y Combinator-funded startup, has rolled out an ecommerce software application that enables online retailers to integrate their storefront onto a tab on their Facebook page. Essentially by setting up shop on Facebook, a merchant can leverage Facebook’s 650 million user database into becoming potential customers. [...]

March 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Minneapolis-based startup 8thBridge, a social ecommerce company that helps merchants take their shopping experience onto Facebook, announced it had raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Trident Capital, with help from existing investor Split Rock Partners. This round brings the company’s total funding raised to [...]

March 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Getting new tablets onto Amazon as early as possible for preorder seems to be the name of the game for manufacturers looking to fill shopping carts, possibly to take advantage of the huge response to Apple’s iPad 2, and the fact that they are still massively backed [...]

March 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Things are changing for artists. No longer do they have to toil endlessly in obscurity, unsure of how and when they’ll be able to sell their artwork. The people at overstockArt.com have launched a new commerce solution for artists called “Artistbe.com.” Artistbe.com brings together a variety of [...]