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All retailers can take lessons from eBay’s personalised customer marketing campaigns. For the modern-day marketer, the concept of the right message to the right person at the right time may seem like an over-used cliche; a pipe-dream, considering the mountain…
eBay Korea has joined forces with nationwide convenience store chain GS25 to offer consumers a combined online-offline sales service. The partnership will see the launch of the “Smile Box” service, in which deliveries are made to an unmanned box for…
Service providers and their millions of users are affected by a significant regulatory change to China online payments announced by the Chinese Central Bank. From July 1, third-party online payment service providers must ensure that all user accounts bear the…
Gucci America has become the second brand to quit the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition(IACC) since the US-based group allowed Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba to become a member last month. Describing Alibaba as “our most dangerous and damaging…
Online marketplaces, those giant shopping sites like eBay and Amazon Marketplace, can be a mixed blessing for brands and merchants. Marketplaces offer retailers broad exposure to millions of consumers, as well as delivery, payment and other solutions. Still,…
U.S e-commerce major eBay plans to open its office in Indonesia and is looking to hire a head of cross border trade to manage and develop the business in south-east Asia’s largest economy. According to information on eBay’s Linkedin link, the head will also…
eBay is getting into groceries – in Korea, that is. It will offer perishables such as vegetables, meat and dairy through Korea’s Gmarket and IAC platforms. The Partnership Program Director for eBay Korea Ju Cheol Lee said, “We’ve aligned with a top Korean…
Singapore-based Giosis, the parent company of Pan-Asian eCommerce platform Qoo10, has raised US$82.1 million in new funding led by Singapore Press Holdings. Other investors in the mix included eBay, Saban Capital Group, UVM 2 Venture Investments LP, Brookside…
Having finalised its split from eBay, PayPal is now an independent public company trading on the Nasdaq as PYPL. Dan Schulman, president and CEO of PayPal, said the business would be focussing on enabling digital payments on a “technology agnostic platform…
Thailand has maintained in its position as eBay’s largest market in Southeast Asia thanks to the appreciation of the US dollar and the variety of Thai products, says the world’s largest e-marketplace. The California-based e-commerce operator is gearing up to…
A research by eBay exhibits that Singapore’s tech savvy retail exporters, who use the corporate’s on-line market place, promote to a mean 41 worldwide markets. eBay defines retail exporters as these sellers on its website who garner US$10,000 in gross sales…
Magento, an e-commerce platform owned by eBay’s Enterprise division, on Thursday stated it has partnered with Razorfish in Larger China to function a gateway for retailer progress within the booming Asia-Pacific market. As a part of the brand new partnership,…
EBay plans to grow by thinking small as it prepares for life apart from PayPal. The company says it is focusing on expanding the number of small- to mid-size businesses and individuals who buy and sell items on its popular online marketplace. That comes as it…
Paypal executive Don Kingsborough, who helped orchestrate the payments company’s move into physical retail stores, stepped down in January, the company said on Wednesday. His departure, which tech blog Re/code first reported, comes as the company competes…
EBay plans to cut 2,400 jobs, or 7 percent of its staff, in the first quarter to simplify its structure and boost profit ahead of a planned separation of its business. The job cuts will fall across its marketplaces, PayPal and enterprise businesses. They come…
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will take a majority stake in AdChina, which calls itself China’s leading digital marketing platform, to develop online and mobile marketing, the internet powerhouse says. Alibaba had made a strategic investment in AdChina, it…
