/ Marketing

Amazon wants to be a part of your birthday

Amazon announces a new service that lets consumers on Facebook join forces to buy gift cards for friends with upcoming birthdays. On the recipient’s birthday, Amazon posts an image of the gift card on her Facebook timeline with links and instructions for how to redeem it.

Posted 06/18/2013Amy DustoPost a comment

/ E-Retailers

E-retailer The Tie Bar hires a Threadless exec as CEO

Anand Shah also co-founded fashion e-retailer Karmaloop.

Posted 06/17/2013Amy DustoPost a comment

/ Technology

Father’s Day online shopping will be especially big in the U.K.

Brits will also spend slightly more than Americans on their dads this year.

Posted 06/14/2013Amy DustoPost a comment

/ Technology

First Data updates its Pogo mobile POS technology for small merchants

Pogo is an app that works with a card reader that plugs into mobile devices.

Posted 06/13/2013Amy DustoPost a comment

/ Technology

Apple weds Siri to Bing

The mobile voice technology now uses Microsoft’s Bing search engine for all mobile web searches.

Posted 06/12/2013Amy DustoPost a comment

/ Technology

ICANN gears up for the arrival of new web domains

The web-address group announces organizational changes.

Posted 06/10/2013Amy DustoPost a comment

/ Technology

Start with a mobile site, then build an app, IRCE speakers say

Executives from Wine.com and Groupon explain their mobile priorities.

Posted 06/10/2013Amy DustoPost a comment

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/ Technology

E-retail technology can resemble an aspirin or a vitamin

An IRCE speaker explains how to get the most from e-commerce vendors.

Posted 06/07/2013Amy DustoPost a comment