One example is Stylyt, a collaborative commerce platform that lets consumers play fashion designer.
EBay has made several recent e-commerce acquisitions, such as e-commerce platform GSI Commerce Inc. and Milo Inc.
However, he says Alibaba, as the leading e-commerce platform, is partly to blame.
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Fulgoni said that consumers are being won over by the convenience and lower prices of the e-commerce platform over other retail.
We wouldn't be replacing the existing (publication) Web site ... but our e-commerce platform will be on the publishers Web site.
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Going forward, the three key areas for us are developing new algorithms for web search, mobile services products, and Yandex e-commerce platform.
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With Sterling and WebSphere together, IBM can offer a soup-to-nuts e-commerce platform.
Tencent Holdings, which has its own hugely popular social media app (Weixin, or WeChat) and is trying to build up its e-commerce platform.
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Channel Advisor, an e-Commerce platform company that works with thousands of Internet sellers, has a good view into trends at Amazon and eBay.
American Express and Verizon Wireless today announced they will integrate Serve, a next-generation digital payment and commerce platform, on many Verizon mobile phones and tablets.
Developers have long awaited the arrival of a Facebook-based commerce platform.
Now the New York City-based company is aiming to turn those clicks into cash with the introduction of R29 Shops, a content-and-image rich e-commerce platform.
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Every Internet conglomerate ( Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Sohu, Sina, Shanda) has a search engine, 3rd party payment team, gaming, e-commerce platform, literature platform, etc.
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The company's X.commerce platform aims to provide all of the fundamental technologies needed for end-to-end commerce, delivered in a way that's simple enough for the mom-and-pop shops to manage.
This is a unique promotion that taps into its power as a content, community and commerce platform, and we are excited to have them on board as a partner.
However, we believe that over time as Facebook develops into a solid e-commerce platform, it will definitely want to have a share of the products sales via this feature.
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This could be a sign of Facebook eventually more tightly integrating the ability to purchase all sorts of physical products on Facebook, which could move Facebook even further as an e-commerce platform.
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To sell subscriptions that bundle the Times in print, online and on mobile devices, the Times has had to develop an e-commerce platform that patches together various old and new databases and programs.
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One report cites a company spokeswoman saying the site wants to take advantage of its Japan connections to transform itself into an e-commerce platform with a distinctly Japanese flavor, including Japanese brand products and a more Japanese look and feel.
U.S. CEO Odake has hinted that Uniqlo might run its entire global e-commerce platform from the U.S., where tech talent is abundant, and he openly suggests that he'd like to replace himself with an American executive to head up operations here.
The e-commerce platform that UBee plans to launch next month will rely on SOAP, for Simple Object Access Protocol, a technology standard based on using "envelopes" that retailers and uBee use to exchange information quickly enough to make these real-time offers.
Slimtrader is a promising start-up that launched a commerce platform a year ago using the tools available in the developing world: feature phones and SMS. A traveler in Lagos, Nigeria can enter the text shortcode for a bus ticket and get a reply with a schedule and prices.
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While I have run my business for seven years, the process of moving onto an e-commerce platform, setting up a merchant account, editing photos and navigating the legal and tax logistics of this new stage of my business have introduced me to areas in which I am not an expert.
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Crovitz: One of our offerings is a new e-commerce platform that will be integrated into a Web site, to make it as easy as possible to got to one place and sign up for what they want -- an all-you-can-read bundle with a single price for multiple brands, or micropayments for individual articles.
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One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
Many investors buying Sina are buying it for weibo, which is accelerating its monetizing process after launching its virutal cash and e-commerce weibo platform this month.
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The industry is already beginning to transform from one-shot daily deals into a new type of local, e-commerce marketing platform fueled by publishers and beneficial for local merchants and consumers.
Like any public square or any platform for commerce, the Internet is neutral.
However, the sites tend to offer even fewer commerce and marketing features for developers than platform app stores.
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So based on these numbers here and just how disastrous ads can be, maybe the best mobile platform focuses on e-commerce.
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