EBay accuses Amazon of poaching third-party sellers for its Marketplace
In a clash of the e-commerce titans, online auction platform eBay has accused Amazon of poaching sellers through its internal messaging system.
Calling the alleged scheme “unlawful” in a statement, the platform has issued a...
U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Sales Tax Could Be Costly for Emerging Online Businesses
In one of the most significant state and local tax developments in the last 50 years, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly sided with the state of South Dakota in allowing the state to impose...
Amazon opens review-driven store in New York
Online marketplace Amazon has unveiled a new physical store in SoHo, New York, which stocks items rated four-stars and above, are top sellers or are new and trending on Amazon.com.
The store, named Amazon 4-star,...
The Best of Both Worlds: Converging Online and Offline Shopping
Once -- and sometimes still -- bitter rivals, online and offline shopping businesses have to work together to improve customer engagement and retention. Although some brick-and-mortar stores are suffering revenue loss to online retailers,...
How Online Retailers Can Make the Most of Preorders to Maximize Sales
Among the myriad of tactics that e-commerce businesses can use to pump up sales, preorders might be the most overlooked strategy. Yet preorder sales are a highly effective way to generate early buzz to...
The Observatory of E-Commerce
The Observatory of E-Commerce has been created to provide public authorities, economic policy makers and, more generally, the public with regular information on the state and evolution of the sectors of e-commerce and distance...