Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, SellerExpress’ review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week.
GTINs, EANs, MPNs etc all now searchable on eBay UK: Dan Wilson at Tamebay reports that eBay now enables buyers to search by GTIN, UPC, EAN, ISBN and MPN. The announcement states, “Starting today, buyers can search for any item on eBay.com simply by entering its GTIN, UPC, EAN, ISBN or MPN directly into the search bar. Listings that contain the required identifiers will receive better search visibility, so if any of your existing listings are missing these identifiers, be sure to update them as soon as you can.” Continue reading…
Jeff Bezos’ open letter to Amazon shareholders: Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, recently published an open letter to shareholders about the company’s 2015 performance, which you can now read online. He considers the three great recent successes of the company to be Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services and the Amazon Marketplace. The letter starts by informing us that Amazon has “became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales” with “Amazon Web Services reaching $10 billion in annual sales” at a pace even faster than Amazon achieved that milestone. Continue reading…
Alibaba buys control of Lazada in $1 billion bet on SE Asia ecommerce: Paul Carsten and Rama Venkat Raman at Reuters reports that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has agreed to buy a controlling stake in South-East Asian online retailer Lazada Group for about $1 billion. Lazada, was founded in 2012, is head-quartered in Singapore and also operates in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Continue reading…
Ecommerce in the Netherlands expected to reach €18bn in 2016: Ecommerce News reports that B2C Ecommerce sales in the Netherlands are expected to reach 18 billion euros in 2016. The ecommerce industry was worth slightly more than 16 billion euros last year, but according to the Ecommerce Foundation the online retail industry is expected to increase by 12.1 percent and thus reach 18.014 billion euros. These are some of the figures the Ecommerce Foundation shared in its latest report about B2C Ecommerce in the Netherlands. Continue reading…
Amazon Kindle Oasis, does the world want a £270 e-reader? Rory Cellan-Jones at BBC News reports on the Amazon Kindle Oasis, priced at a rather steep £269.99 or £329.99, if you want to purchase the version with a built-in 3G connection. The Kindle is described as “a thing of beauty” — slim and light, with a bright, very readable screen, the same page-size as previous Kindles. Amazon’s vice-president for industrial design, Chris Green, explains that the gold standard is paper, and that the Oasis takes the company another step towards that. Continue reading…
