With more shoppers wishing to avoid the throng, research firm comScore reported a 15% increase of online spending on Black Friday to USD 1.20 billion.
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Open source e-commerce platform Sellvana nabs $5M in seed round
Sellvana, an open source e-commerce software developer based in Portland, Oregon, has received $5 million for its seed funding round from unnamed New York investors, VentureBeat reported.
Flappy Bird craze continues in HTML5 after pulling out of app stores
Flappy Bird, the popular mobile game created by Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen, proliferated in app stores and even on the Internet in the form of HTML5 games after the original game was pulled from the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Source says Icahn nearly has 2pct stake in eBay Inc
A source interviewed by Reuters said billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn had a higher stake in eBay than what was previously reported, saying that his stake was near 2%.
eBay UK to start allowing sale of Bitcoins on February 10- report
The UK website of e-commerce giant eBay will soon allow the sale of Bitcoins and other digital currencies under the Virtual Currency category, CNET reported.
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Online shopping website Amazon is set to dominate this holiday season, rising above other ecommerce rivals and traditional retailers and hitting a 54% increase in its stock this year.
Indian e-commerce company Yebhi.com is looking to raise USD30 million to USD50 million from venture capital firms. If successful, Yebhi.com will follow leading online retailer Flipkart, which raised USD360 million.
A group of private equity investors, SoftBank and eBay had pumped in around USD150 to USD200 million worth of new funding to online marketplace Snapdeal.
UK newspaper The Guardian had confirmed the departure of American journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is rumored to be joining a new media venture backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
The new system introduced by Argos and eBay would be allowing customers to pick up ordered items from eBay in Argos stores.
A Reuters report stated that Amazon Inc invested a massive USD13.9 million on warehouse facilities to strengthen its expansion.
PayPal plans to expand so that it could be a one-stop shop for customers' financial services needs.
Facebook hired Gary Briggs from Google's Motorola Mobility as its first ever marketing chief. Facebook hired Gary Briggs, Motorola Mobility's former chief marketer, to be the social networking site's first ever chief marketing officer.
PayPal's mistake made a resident from Pennsylvania the richest person alive for a few hours with exactly US$92,233,720,368,547,800.
