September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Millions of Netflix subscribers received an apologetic email early Monday morning from Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of the company. The email is a slightly briefer version of a post from Hastings on Netflix’s blog that provides a lengthy apology for the lack of communication to subscribers [...]

September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team CrowdTwist is a new tool that allows brands to track and measure audience interaction across all online social channels. The CrowdTwist platform integrates itself into a brands website and connects to all of the brand’s social media channels to provide data about consumer engagement and ROI. It [...]

September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Hot on the heels of the leaked documents stating that Google Wallet would officially launch on September 19th, it appears that the NFC mobile payment platform has started to show up in retail stores in San Francisco. Multiple sources reported that Google had sent a notification to [...]

September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In a world wide web far, far away the gaming realm was at odds with the villains and the superheros of the DC Universe battling amongst themselves for something, something about the darkside. Okay, maybe the sci-fi/comic references are a bit crossed here, however game boys and [...]

September 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team BookRenter is a unique ecommerce solution for textbook savings. One book for one college course can easily be over $100 (or even $200), and students don’t find every textbook useful for their future. Prices for selling books back are extremely volatile, and often a new edition comes [...]

September 19, 2011 By Benjamin Kuker, Founder Virtuosi Media Are You Making These 5 Design Mistakes That Drive Away Customers? If you own an ecommerce store, you could be leaving money on the table. In this article, I’ll cover 5 common mistakes that people make in ecommerce web design and give some tips as to [...]

September 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Locayta is one of the leading online merchandising and search solution providers. The company serves more than one hundred customers in the USA, Europe and Asia and allows eCommerce solutions to take control over their online sales performance. They feature some of the most advanced behavioral and [...]

September 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an official federal investigation into Craigslist’s allegations that eBay employees stole confidential information about the company and used it to launch a competing site. A California court issued a grand jury subpoena last week outlining the allegations against the ecommerce [...]

September 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The iPhone 5 craziness, it appears, is finally coming to a head. CaseMate, a major electronics case manufacturer, recently leaked pictures of their forthcoming iPhone 5 cases. The page was immediately taken down, but many sites captured screenshots of the cases and their product descriptions. The page [...]

September 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Earlier this summer, Netflix announced that they would be splitting their most popular movie rental plan into two separate plans. Previously, users would be able to get 1 DVD in the mail at a time, and watch unlimited online streaming content, all for under $10 a month. [...]

September 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Red Robot Labs, creators of the Life is Crime app, is a start-up devoted to developing games that realize the potential of location-based mobile gaming. Players in “Life is Crime” can fight each other at real locations on their city’s map for control of properties in battles [...]

September 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you’re still on the look out for your favorite travel deal site- Google has decided to jump into the game with their new travel ecommerce solution- Google Flights. The site went live on Tuesday, and will compete with sites such as Kayak, Travelocity, Expedia, Orbitz, and [...]

September 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Fashionistas descended upon Target stores and crashed the company’s website Tuesday trying to get their hands on pieces from the new Missoni for Target line. Target’s website formerly relied on Amazon’s ecommerce software but switched to its own platform three weeks ago. The new platform was evidently [...]

September 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team On Tuesday, Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky demonstrated how to create apps in the new “Metro” style for the Windows 8 operating system at Microsoft’s Build conference. Sinofsky also announced that there will be a new app store that Microsoft is currently calling the Windows Store, or [...]

September 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Michael G. Rubin, founder of GSI Commerce, announced the launch of his new holding company Kynetic Monday. The ecommerce solution entrepreneur’s launch of Kynetic comes after he sold GSI Commerce to eBay this year for $2.4 billion. Rubin spent 12 years building up GSI’s network to service [...]

September 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team After four months, e-commerce company Shopify has reached the halfway point in their Build-A-Business Competition. A grand prize of $100,000, plus a VIP trip for two to New York City to have lunch with Seth Godin, meet with Gary Vaynerchuk, then a trip to California to have [...]