E-Commerce

lululemon athletica's focus on e-commerce is paying off for the yoga-inspired apparel retailer. E-commerce now represents 10.4 percent of lululemon's total revenue, which rose 31 percent this quarter to $230.2 million.

For a decade, Target outsourced its website operations to Amazon.com. The retail giant began preparing two years ago to take control of the site when the deal with Amazon expired this August. Three weeks after the switch, the site crashed. It went down again a month later. Then again, and again.

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, online retailers are fixated on the performance of their websites. By now everyone knows that a viewer's first impression of a website counts. This is even more true with an e-commerce site. The landing page is where the rubber meets the road.

Two leading law professors have concluded that Amazon recently opening large “fulfillment” warehouses in South Carolina and Tennessee is a likely violation of the Constitution’s commerce clause.

Online retailers should consider how to personalize their sites using Facebook data, as a new study shows 50 percent of visitors to e-commerce sites are logged onto the social network as well.

A powerful data mining application helps this 41-store specialty retailer maintain its stock position in a tricky retail environment.

CBS Consumer Products has partnered with TeamFanShop to launch an online store, ShopTVCity.com, which features products with slogans and imagery from TV shows.

Google is considering a move into online retail, challenging Amazon by providing low-cost goods. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is in talks with major retailers and shippers about creating a service to let consumers shop for goods online and receive their orders within a day for a low fee.

Compuware announced the top retail web and mobile site performers for Cyber Monday based on the Compuware Performance Index. Compuware's analysis found that despite months of preparation by retailers, performance satisfaction for the top 50 retailers was down more than 12 percent on Cyber Monday from nonholiday baseline levels.

Searching online wish lists, guessing or just directly asking people what they want as gifts is so 20th century, therefore Wal-Mart is launching a new approach for the holidays — its Shopycat app that scours Facebook profiles, updates, comments and likes to come up with gifts for your friends.