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MercadoLibre, Latin America’s answer to eBay, on how the region will become a global e-retail force

E-commerce is in no way a U.S.-centric phenomenon. In fact, other regions around the world are picking up speed in their e-commerce pursuits, recognizing that online shopping is not a trend, it’s a new way…

Video interview: Brandon Proctor, Build.com, on how to make sense of data

It’s easy to get bogged down in data when you’re trying to measure your website’s traffic, visitors, what clicks are most important, etc. At eTail East this year, speakers discussed this issue, including Brandon Proctor,…

Gilt Groupe’s Alexandra Wilson on challenges and the future of Gilt

It didn’t take long for luxury online retailer, Gilt Groupe, to grow into the mega-shopping destination it is today. It grew so quickly because its founders, Alexandra Wilkes Wilson and Alexis Maybank, were committed to bringing the…

Oh, how e-commerce has blossomed!

I knew within my first few weeks of freshman year at the University of Connecticut – a small town of its own with little more than the campus, cows and basketball fans – that I…

The new Flip Board – will you use it?

If somehow the appearance of social networking sites wasn’t doing it for you, then perhaps you’ll be excited by the new Flip Board app from the iPad, yet another way that Apple is transforming our…