December 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce solution eBay coined the term “Green Monday” in 2007 to describe the second Monday in December, which for the past six years has marked the most (or second-most in 2005 and 2007) profitable shopping day of the year for online retailers. “Green Monday” has been exceptionally [...]

December 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Many small brick and mortar retailers around the country were less than pleased with Amazon’s promotion of their new Price Check mobile application this past weekend. On Saturday (12/10), Amazon offered customers a 5% discount up to $5 for using the new application. The application, called Price [...]

December 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The successes of both Black Friday and Cyber Monday are encouraging signs for the ecommerce industry. Merchants worked hard this season to draw shoppers to their online stores and get them to fill their shopping carts. Record numbers of consumers flocked to retailers online storefronts to make [...]

November 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Holiday shopping season 2011 got off to a great start with retailers reporting record-breaking Black Friday sales in both brick-and-mortar and online storefronts. According to research by comScore released yesterday, online sales in the U.S. surged on Black Friday and generated an estimated $816 million, up from [...]

November 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s still days before notorious Black Friday, but a series of e-tailers have already launched unbeatable deals. Amazon.com along with Walmart, Toys “R” Us, Sears, Target, and eBay are currently hosting Black Friday deals on their online stores- all of which started 4 days early! Featured deals [...]

November 10, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Japanese ecommerce solution giant Rakuten will be acquiring the Canadian ereading service Kobo from majority shareholder and founder of the service Indigo. Indigo is Canada’s largest book retailer and founded Kobo in 2009 to compete with Amazon’s and Barnes & Noble’s ereaders. The Kobo ereading platform has a [...]

October 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Earlier this month Barnes & Noble began pulling 100 DC graphic novel titles from shelves in its brick-and-mortar stores. The decision came after DC Entertainment made an exclusive digital deal with ecommerce solution Amazon to supply graphic novels for the new Kindle Fire. DC fans can still [...]

October 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Three major publishers will soon provide authors with access to book sales data online through new author portals. Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday the creation of its author portal that will allow authors and illustrators to see data online about the sales of their published material. [...]

October 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce giant Amazon is set to publish 122 books of a variety of genres this fall. By creating their own publishing line, Amazon is removing traditional publishing houses from the process and making their own deals with authors. Amazon Publishing will act similar to a traditional publisher, [...]

September 30, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Wednesday morning, daily deal site Groupon.com quietly rolled out their latest endeavor: Groupon Goods. Coming just one day after the introduction of Groupon Rewards, a customer loyalty program to officially launch next month, Groupon Goods features discounted direct buy products instead of their usual coupon deals. Unlike [...]

September 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team These days tablet devices are hot items for the holiday season, here is a roundup of some of the top contenders on the market for the remainder of 2011. Apple iPad 2 The iPad is currently dominating all other tablet competitors with a 73 percent market share. iPad [...]

September 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Amazon announced Monday that it has partnered with Fox to add new streaming content for Amazon Prime members. The deal will add a wide variety of popular Fox movies and TV series to Amazon Prime’s streaming library, including favorites such as 24, The X-Files, Arrested Development, and [...]

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 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 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you’ve ever ordered an item from Amazon, or from any ecommerce solution, you’re likely familiar with the anxiety of waiting for the package to arrive. Sometimes you can’t be around to sign for your items, or you’re away from the house and don’t want your brand [...]

September 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Reading is one of those activities that bridges the gender gap. While their book interests may vary, men and women of all ages love to read. And the most recent explosion in the popularity of devices like Amazon’s Kindle and the Nook Color has made reading even [...]

August 31, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Well, after the dust had seemingly settled on the roller coaster that has been the HP Touchpad firesale, the computer giant announced today that it is fact making more of the bargain-bin tablets. This final run of TouchPads is being made specifically to fill existing backorders and [...]

August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We’ve all been there. You hear a song on the radio or in a bar or restaraunt and you think: “What’s the name of this song? I want it!” Well, the people behind the mobile app SoundHound have come to the rescue of many music lovers. They [...]

August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The world of gaming is constantly changing, and the industry has started to show significant support for a change in content delivery. What used to be an industry dependent on physical media delivery is now a business focusing on online content delivery, via the “cloud”. A new [...]

August 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Do you have a Kindle? Read lots of books on your iPad with the Kindle App? Then you’re in luck! Today, Amazon announced the Kindle Daily Deal program, which will feature a different Kindle eBook everyday at a discounted price. Think of it as a Groupon for [...]

August 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Back in 2001, Target decided to use Amazon as its primary ecommerce solution for selling its vast catalog of products online. The move seemed like a smart one, but years later Target CEO Steve Eastman decided it was time to let go of the company’s relationship with [...]

August 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Finding ways to save money has always been a concern for savvy shoppers – especially parents when back-to-school time looms. This year online ecommerce solutions are changing the game for back to school shoppers. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, as many [...]

August 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team By now everyone (or pretty much everyone) is aware that the United States, which enjoyed the highest possible credit rating on its sovereign debt (AAA) has been downgraded for the first time ever by Standard & Poor, a worldwide credit rating agency. The markets showed bumpy fluctuations [...]

August 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Amazon, in their never-ending quest to do…well…everything, announce that their Amazon Instant video service now gives users access to more than 100,000 titles, with more than 15,000 in HD. Amazon Prime subscribers now have access to over 9,000 commercial-free streaming movies and TV shows. Amazon Prime is [...]