News from the ecommerce and digital retail technology industry, from vendors, retailers and brands.
December 16th, 2020. Elastic Path, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has appointed two more executives to the leadership team. Bryan House joins as SVP of Product (directing UX and product management) from Boston-based Neural Magic, an AI software company that aims to deliver…
December 14, 2020. VTEX announced today that it is now powering 39 international websites for Motorola, the telecoms business based in Schaumburg in Chicago, IL. In June 2019 VTEX announced it had been selected by Motorola to "strengthen its relationship with consumers" by building an improved…
December 13th, 2020. Commercetools, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, today suffered an embarrassing outage on its corporate website. It is not clear if this has affected its customers' ecommerce operations. It has affected our ability to check this week if they have any…
December 7th, 2020. TrueCommerce has announced the appointment of John Fay as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Mike Cornell who was CEO since 2014 and now moves into an advisory role. The appointment follows the acquisition of TrueCommerce by Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe (WCAS) which is…
December 7th, 2020. Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WooCommerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced its acquisition of MailPoet, a WordPress plugin that provides email marketing and transactional email services for around 300,000 customers, of whom just under 25% run WooCommerce.
December 5th, 2020. Oro, Inc, provider of OroCommerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that it has signed several new B2B customers including Braskem (Brazilian petrochemical company $13.3bn revenue FY2019), Fairprice (Singapore grocery business $2.7bn revenue FY2019) and Petra Industries (US consumer…
November 23rd, 2020. Shopware, the Germany-headquartered member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, today announced that its first customer in the UK has gone live on Shopware Enterprise 6. The site is the consumer-facing ecommerce store of a new business called Wine&Something, based in the town…
November 10th, 2020. Commercetools, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that its technology has been selected by John Lewis to provide the basis for a future evolution of its johnlewis.com direct-to-consumer website which is currently running on bespoke, in-house software. John Lewis…