eCommerce Point News
ZOHO Updates CRM Mobile Apps: Commercial Offline data access app; Free web based online only.
The main difference between the two is that with the web app - if you don't have internet connectivity you're out of luck - there's no offline access...
Commercial Games and Free Weather applications top download lists for smartphones.
iPhone users pay and play more games compared to other smartphones...
Google: Decides to require all profiles to be public; to delete all private profiles.
Google believes that all Google Profiles should be public. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011...
Google Starts Promoting eBooks Affiliate Program.
Google Affiliates can link to Google eBooks and earn a commission for referring sales...
The Reviewers are just product hoarders who will say what they need to say to get more products...
Amazon to Terminate California Affiliate/Associates Program.
Amazon email: Supported by Out-of-State Big-box Retailers, Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based participants...
Software Developers Kit (SDK) To Be Released; Allows Credit Card Payment Processing on Mobile Devices Without Hardware.
Card.io is billed as an SDK that takes advantage of smartphone cameras to accept credit cards without a separate hardware attachment...
Valve Changes Team Fortress 2 to a Free-to-Play (F2P) business model; gameplay exactly the same for everyone.
The entire game can be played without making a purchase. All game modes, classes, and maps are available...
WARNING: WordPress Main Project Website Hacked, Some Plugins Contain Malicious Code.
Malicious code was found in WordPress downloads AND ALSO in popular plugins such as AddThis, WPtouch, or W3 Total Cache...
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approves plan to allow custom top-level domains.
Getting your application processed will cost $185,000 and, should it be approved, you'll end up being responsible for managing it...
Company offers publishers HTML-5 goodies to present smartphone versions of their sites in exchange for ad space.
Sites get magazine-like ads between stories. Those ads are sold and placed by OnSwipe, which shares the majority of the revenue with the publisher...
Dropbox lets anyone view and download your stored data.
For 4 hours last week anybody could log in to any Dropbox account using any random password and download all of the data...
NYPost to sell more of its iPad apps and subscriptions by blocking iPad browser access.
Rupert Murdoch's NY Post's site works fine through alternative browsers, Safari blocked...
Bitcoin exchange gets hacked, taken offline; share prices fall.
The crash appears to be the fault of the Mt.Gox exchange rather than a collapse in the value of the currency itself...
Amazon quietly works on making home delivery of fresh groceries profitable.
"Amazon Fresh is an expensive service to provide - and if the customer experience is good we will see if we can get it to work..."
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) fights for expansion of government bureaucracy; federal gaming commission...
Will Microsoft kill Skype? FTC approves Microsoft’s $8.5 billion cash takeover.
Microsoft’s biggest acquisition to date as Skype users complain about increasing instances of intermittent service...
Similar to fake product reviews, shills get paid for 'Liking' products.
New tool gives online merchants the ability to 'incentivize' customers to 'Facebook Like' products in their online stores...
Several banks take aim at PayPal, considering similar payment options.
Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. let people use their checking accounts to send each other money with an email address or cellphone number...
Recession, gas prices accelerate eCommerce sales.
The Recession accelerated the Online commerce growth...
SCORE publishes new guide "Gaining the Edge in Ecommerce with Free Shipping".
How to achieve ecommerce success by offering free shipping...
Transportation tickets and music top online sales in Russia.
Airline tickets account for 34.8% of all purchases made online with online music sales the most popular...
Amazon drops Connecticut affiliates - will drop more.
Amazon said it would immediately cut off its affiliate relationships in states requiring sales tax to be collected...