Tag: E-COMMERCE

In news that plays like heavenly, August music upon the ears of disenfranchised Android users throughout the world, a PayPal checkout option may soon appear on the Android Market. It seems Bloomberg is running with an anonymous tip, and the story goes on to say that the deal is by no means confirmed -- but it sure would make a lot of sense if it's true! Currently you can only buy Android Market ...

Tinypay.me is a very web2.0 service, which sets you up with a PayPal-driven webpage that you can use to sell just about anything, super-fast. By "super-fast" I mean that you can be up and running in about two minutes. The screenshot you see above is what you get once you decide to purchase an item. When you offer an item for sale, you can set the price, the quantity, upload pictures and ...

Similar to recently covered Lifeyo, Viviti is a CMS for people starting out with their first website. The concept is very similar, and the execution is quite nice. You build your page out of drag-and-drop "blocks", which are high-level components. You can drop in a blog, a feedback form, a PayPal payment widget, and also arbitrary HTML and Javascript code. You start off with a template, ...

PayPal had a nice booth at SXSW and was there to promote their API and developer platform, which now allows developers (hint: mobile developers, prayers answered) to enable PayPal's e-commerce solution within their apps. They were also there promoting their new iPhone app, which allows you to manage your PayPal account and send money to merchants or friends. Here's my chat with Francesco ...

Google sure knows how to time its innovations. Just in time for the holiday rush, Google have a new search tool -- but not for shoppers like you or I, at least not directly. No, this one's for businesses themselves; it's an enterprise product that straps onto existing online shops! (Sorry, I like anything that sounds vaguely Star Trekkie.) Citing the ol' chestnut that most visitors spend on ...

AOL has announced plans to let users opt out of targeted advertising. Right now AOL (which happens to be this blog's parent company) and many other web sites place cookies in your browser allowing the site to serve up targeted ads every time you visit an AOL web site. By the end of the year, AOL plans to offer you the ability to opt out of targeted advertising. You'll still see advertising, but ...