News from the ecommerce and digital retail technology industry, from vendors, retailers and brands.
July 21st, 2021. VTEX, the Brazil-based B2C, B2B and marketplace ecommerce platform company, became a publicly traded company today, NYSE:VTEX. It is a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist. VTEX has experienced extremely strong sales growth in recent years, not only in its native Latin…
April 21st, 2021. Adobe, the software company behind Magento Commerce, its $1.68bn 2018 acquisition, is renaming the ecommerce platform Adobe Commerce. Adobe had already introduced a commercial offering of the Magento open source ecommerce platform plus its commercial content management system (Adobe Experience Manager) as…
March 30th, 2021. TrueCommerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, in the Niche eCommerce category, has announced the appointment of three new executives: The appointments come three months after John Fay was installed as the new CEO. Todd Johnson worked for over 20 years…
March 22nd, 2021. Episerver Optimizely, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced it has acquired the customer data platform (CDP) software vendor Zaius just a few days after Episerver competitor Sitecore acquired CDP company Boxever. Zaius, a venture-backed company based in Boston with fewer…
March 16th, 2021. Novomind, the Hamburg-based ecommerce platform vendor, has announced its customer, Carl Tesdorpf GmbH, a German wine seller in business since 1678, has launched its new online store powered by novomind iSHOP and novomind iPIM at https://www.tesdorpf.de/ Pierre Enjalbert, CEO of Carl Tesdorpf,…
March 16th, 2021. Sitecore, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has appointed Dave O'Flanagan from its recent acquisition of CDP platform company Boxever to the new role of Chief Product Officer. O'Flanagan, an Irish national with a MSc in Computer Science from Trinity College,…
March 10th, 2021. Spryker, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist in the regional category, has announced Belgian food retailer MAKRO Cash & Carry will be implementing Spryker Cloud Commerce OS for its upcoming ecommerce store. This is Spryker's first customer in Belgium. Peter de…
March 4th, 2021. Ucommerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist in the "regional" category, has released version 9.4 of its software - a headless ecommerce platform with strong support for storefronts built using CMS solutions Sitecore, Sitefinity and Umbraco. Version 9.4 provides the management…