E-Commerce

Express is packing its full e-commerce catalog, complete with credit card checkout, into its Facebook presence. The retailer believes it's delivered a tighter integration on the Express Facebook page than that of some other early social shopping stores.

Can your website hold an intelligent conversation with consumers each time they return to visit? Can it analyze their behavior individually and respond with appropriate navigation? Can its follow-up emails best meet their needs and objectives, and in a time frame short enough to keep their attention?

E-commerce spending was up 19.2 percent in April, the category's sixth straight month of double-digit growth and 21st straight month in positive territory, according to MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse.

Amazon has launched MyHabit.com, a site that mimics sites such as Gilt Groupe by holding brief online flash sales of clothes. Sales typically last 72 hours. The site launched with clothes from Doo.ri, Badgley Mischka and i.am clothing, the brand of Black Eyed Peas member Will.i.am. The site will feature photos and video of the clothing on models, the internet retailer said.

JoS. A. Bank Clothiers is now allowing international customers to place orders on its website, as the retailer can now deliver orders to customers in over 90 countries. The retailer will use a third-party provider to facilitate the checkout orders and to export and deliver the orders to international destinations.

Groupon's latest battlefields are in the East, where it faces an uphill battle in China and is the underdog in Australia. Groupon's latest tactic to gain ground: acquire burgeoning deal site Crowdmass.

New York magazine is about to launch a weekly deals e-newsletter and online adjunct, but instead of matching offers play to advertisers, it will aggregate “the best of the best” of other e-commerce sites’ picks.

eBay has acquired MissionFish, which powers eBay's Giving Works charitable giving program. MissionFish was launched with its own auction marketplace where all of the proceeds went to charity. In 2003, MissionFish helped eBay create the Giving Works program so eBay sellers could donate a portion of their eBay auction proceeds to the charity of their choice.

Whether you just bought an airline ticket or a pair of jeans online, chances are an internet search preceded the transaction. Now Facebook hopes to make its vast web of online social connections another central ingredient in the complicated dance between retailer and consumer.

When Emily McNish shopped for jewelry online, she was overwhelmed by the options while searching for “gold necklace” on e-commerce sites or Google. Then she found a website called JewelMint that she lets shop for her.