E-Commerce

About a month after offering its first discounted deals, Groupon's China site is attracting big user numbers, but still falls behind the local competition in sales.

Retail industry lobbyists in Indiana are trying to get state lawmakers to pass an online sales tax provision that they claim would result in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The Indiana Retail Council and the Alliance for Main Street Fairness held a press conference in the Indiana Statehouse to ask for legislators’ support in requiring sites such as Amazon.com to pay sales tax.

Luxury lifestyle brand Tory Burch has officially relaunched toryburch.com on the Demandware Commerce platform. Combining e-commerce with its editorial content and social media, the new site reflects the style and personality of its CEO and founder, Tory Burch, while enhancing its customers’ online shopping experience.

eBay announced that it's agreed to acquire additional shares in GittiGidiyor, the leading online marketplace in Turkey. The deal follows eBay’s acquisition of a minority stake in the company in 2007. Upon closing of the transaction, eBay will own approximately 93 percent of the outstanding shares of GittiGidiyor.

Sears announced the expansion of beauty departments to more than 100 store locations and Sears.com. The new cosmetics departments will include beauty products from such well-known brands as L'Oreal, Maybelline, Revlon and CoverGirl, in a range of hues for every woman.

Need some Courtney Love in your life? Look no further than her designer wardrobe. The Etsy-obsessed rock star has set up her own eBay shop, fittingly named Courtney Love Couture.

All sorts of merchants are experimenting on Facebook. But does this mean Facebook is en route to becoming a major e-commerce player? Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru says the answer is a resounding “No.”

The Olsen twins are entering the e-commerce style world. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen will help design T-shirts for StyleMint, an online recommendation/subscription site set to launch this July.

Local retailers are heading to Beacon Hill in Boston today as part of a new fight to force e-commerce sites like Amazon, Overstock and Zappos to collect sales tax from local residents.

David Granger, editor and chief of Esquire, told a crowd at the Publishing Business Conference & Expo that the magazine is readying an online retail site called Clad. According to eMedia, the site will offer men's clothing and attempt to bridge the gap between the pages of the magazine and shopping.