- Top ecommerce sites around the world are slowing down A report from Radware, an applications delivery and security firm, suggests that page load times of the top 2,000 online retailers has risen substantially over the past year.
- Free ecommerce accelerator hopes to get more Irish businesses selling online NDRC's Inventorium, a programme that helps individuals, startups, and existing businesses get ideas off the ground, in association with the Irish Internet Association (IIA), has launched Clicktailing, an ecommerce accelerator programme that hopes to get 20 Irish businesses selling along within five weeks.
- Payment service Stripe makes its first acquisition, Kickoff Stripe, the online payments system for developers and founded by two Irish brothers, John and Patrick Collison, has made its first acquisition; Kickoff.
- Google introduces Zavers, a relevance-based digital coupon solution Retailers and manufacturers will receive a first-hand demonstration of Google's new digital coupon solution - Zavers by Google - that allows them to rewards loyal customers with targeted and relevant digital coupons.
- 30 new jobs at payment processing firm based in Ireland OmniPay, a payment processing company that established itself in Ireland in 2000 has announced, with the support of IDA Ireland, that it is to create a further 30 jobs at its headquarters in Dublin over the next six months.
- Early data from Thanksgiving and Black Friday reiterates the rise of mobile commerce As if this needed reiteration but mobile payments are definitely on the rise, with early data reports from Thanksgiving and Black Friday confirming what we all predicted - an increase in online commerce, and specifically, an increase in mobile commerce.
- What nation leads the world in mobile commerce rankings? What country leads the world in mobile commerce rankings? Australia, apparently, with 47% of online shoppers doing so on mobile.
- Interview: Patrick Leddy on the importance of mobile for enterprise Patrick Leddy is founder and CEO of Furious Tribe, an internationally visible mobile applications development and strategy company with offices in Dublin, London and New York.
- Techovate 2012 will highlight importance of mobile commerce A new business-to-technology conference, Techovate 2012, will be held later this month, highlighting the huge growth of mobile commerce and its importance to Irish companies.
- Expect enhanced Twitter brand pages very soon Twitter is expected to roll-out enhanced brand pages very soon, awarding companies and organisations the ability to embed external elements like games and commerce functionality into their pages, as well as to further customise the look and feel of their presence on the service.