PayPal, in conjunction with eBay, is preparing to move mobile and physical commerce systems into domestic stores on a much wider scale.  In doing so, PayPal has been forced to begin testing contactless payments enabled by NFC (near field communication) swipe technology.  PayPal previously acted…

It’s not too late to register for the online retailers forum that is taking place tomorrow evening from 6:00-8:30pm at TAG Restaurant.  The forum is hosted jointly by Magento and Listrak, a full service email marketing firm from Lititz, Pennsylvania.  According to Listrak, this…

According to new research by a number of firms, including Monetate, Ipsos, and Forrester Research, tablet owners are more likely to make online purchases.  The Wall Street Journal reported that while only 9% of online shoppers have a tablet, tablet owners…

Chances are you haven’t heard about Unthink yet.  Or, if you have, you’ve only heard about it within the last 48 hours and you may not have been able to get to the website that was unavailable for most of the day yesterday..  Unthink…

Today, we continue our “Magento vs. The Rest” series with Magento vs. AgoraCart.  Over the last few months, we have been writing about the wide variety of eCommerce platforms currently available to business owners.  In a post called, “Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform: Magento…

Following the X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference 2011 last week, we wanted to take a look at what X.commerce will mean for merchants in the future.  John Donahoe, the president and CEO of eBay, described X.commerce as the “world’s first open commerce ecosystem.…

I’m sure you don’t remember (I even had to go back and check), but on August 25th I wrote about a brand new, fully-integrated social eCommerce site called Shopntella.  The site had been announced for the first time that day, and while it was…

X.commerce has a new friend and its name is PayPal Access.  PayPal Access is a service that allows eBay users to use their accounts for a variety of online merchants without having to register for each one individually.  According to the website:

With PayPal…

For years, eBay and Amazon have been considered the go-to companies in the online commerce industry.  The two were inseparable.  Until now.

Recently, eBay and Amazon, the go-to internet retail giants, have presented their plans for the future and the growth they hope to accomplish…

On Monday, Acquia announced that X.commerce has migrated the X.com developer website and all developer-related content on eBay and PayPal to Drupal 7.  Drupal 7 is an open-source content management system (CMS), or a platform for managing the operation of…

Well, clearly yesterday was the day for the big announcements at the X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco (see yesterday’s post), but we have been hearing a lot about the X.commerce Pledge from Day 2 today…

As you all know, eBay is…

Yesterday, the brains behind Orange Collar Media, Shane and Robyn, made the journey west for the first ever X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference.  We are very lucky to have two people who are so excited about the future of X.commerce (read: Magento) that they were…

Today, we continue our “Magento vs. The Rest” series with Magento vs. LiteCommerce.  Over the last few months, we have been writing about the wide variety of eCommerce platforms currently available to business owners.  In a post called, “Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform: Magento…

Back in June, Orange Collar Media hosted the Denver regional meeting of the Magento Spring 2011 eCommerce Forum Seminar Series.  Magento selected Orange Collar Media, a Magento Gold Solutions Partner, as host of the forum in conjunction with Peer 1 and Magento.  Make sure to…

Today, we continue our “Magento vs. The Rest” series with Magento vs. PrestaShop.  Over the last few months, we have been writing about the wide variety of eCommerce platforms currently available to business owners.  In a post called, “Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform: Magento…

QuickBooks by Intuit is one of the world’s most popular business accounting software products.  There are four different versions of QuickBooks: Online, Pro, Premier, and Enterprise.  Online is a web-based version, while the other three are stand alone products that must be installed on…

It has been an exciting couple of weeks for Magento.  Yesterday, Magento launched their new Magento Developer Certification program.  For more information about it, check out yesterday’s post.  Next week, Magento will help host the first ever x.commerce Innovate Developer’s Conference, where…

Early this morning, Magento announced the launch of their Magento Developer Certification program.  According to the blog with the announcement (which was also sent via email), “the best Magento developers have asked for a way to establish their credentials and market their skills to…

Stripe is a new online payments start-up company that was co-founded by two brothers, John and Patrick Collison.  The company is an online business to business (B2B) and business to consumer payments provider.  Stripe first gained notice back in March when TechCrunch heard about the…

Today, we continue our “Magento vs. The Rest” series with Magento vs. PrestaShop.  Over the last two months, we have been writing about the wide variety of eCommerce platforms currently available to business owners.  In a post called, “Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform: Magento…

The Cons of Magento

While we are self-professed Magento-lovers, we are also willing to provide an objective view of the eCommerce platform we’ve supported since the beginning.  This is part two of our two-part series in which we will cover the cons since we…

The Pros of Magento

Since we’ve spent a lot of time talking about Magento in comparison with other eCommerce platforms, we thought it would be a good time to talk about Magento on its own.  This is part one of a two-part series.  Today…

Today, we continue our “Magento vs. The Rest” series with Magento vs. ASP.NET.  Over the last two months, we have been writing about the wide variety of eCommerce platforms currently available to business owners.  In a post called, “Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform: Magento…

I’ve written about the changes Facebook has made since the release of Google+ many times before, but now I’m coming at it from a different angle.  Every time Facebook has made a change (typically in direct response to some new or improved Google+…