Bob Schwartz is the new strongman at Magento, who as President is now driving the marketing, sales and operations areas. The founders will thus be able to increase their focus on product and development activities. “I am passionate about building great eCommerce companies” is the mantra which clearly places Bob Schwartz amongst the ranks of | View post »

Some further exciting e-commerce news from the past days. Magento mobile Magento has announced their launch of Magento mobile: “The product includes a new administrative manager (which we wrote about earlier this week), a native iPhone app that is fully customizable (colors, images, buttons, etc), and a service where Magento manages the submission and maintenance | View post »

For providers of mobile apps, it is worthwhile to use the so-called “freemium” strategy to extend awareness of the product and from that market base attempt to maximize profits. The freemium model consists of a “free” offering as well as a payment linked “premium” offering which is invariably coupled with additional value-added functions. In essence, | View post »

Even if the first two days weren’t lacking of highlights, the third day at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York was by wide margin the most exciting. Besides the E-Commerce Panel which was interesting on its own, the music panel (with the managers from Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga) as well as the political | View post »

As one of the two successors of the TechCrunch 50 conference, TechCrunch Disrupt has helped introduce a new row of startups. Some of the most interesting: Off & Away Off & Away is a sort of Swoopo for hotel rooms. Users can make bids on otherwise unaffordable hotel rooms. Should they happen to not get | View post »

We continue to focus on the key question: What will the future of retail fashion look like? The online magazine Monocle has published in their current edition an exciting portrait of Zozotown, one of Japan’s up-and-coming online fashion retailers. Zozotown is a mix between Asos and Yoox. The parent company StartToday has been on the | View post »

Exciting Commerce’s Jochen Krisch at the Techcrunch Disrupt Conference this week in NYC: The conference was well started with a Charlie Rose interview with legendary investor John Doerr. The core statement: “Social, mobile and new commerce are the ingredients of the Third Wave of tech innovation.” Interesting, that advertising was not (any longer) a key | View post »

From Groupon to the e-commerce drive-ins in France, the clever combination of on and offline components is bringing new momentum to the e-commerce industry. For a while already, the often desperate attempts to throw together primitive multi-channel sales structures have been overtaken by more cleverly designed business models attractive to the consumers of tomorrow. Golden | View post »

Worldwide there are only a few operators who have understood the live shopping business as well as Woot! One of these rare teams is Catch of the Day, our favourite live shopping service from Australia who manage to continually surprise and delight their users with new sales campaigns such as the recent “Quilt Cover Extravaganza”. | View post »