COMPANY NEWS: Kicking off the new year, ActiveCampaign, the leader in customer experience automation, celebrates the addition of several new Growth Accelerator apps, which promise to help customers better automate events, surveys, data storage, direct mail, and more.
Australian fintech and payment plan provider Payright has moved into e-commerce, enabling accredited merchants to add the payment option to the checkout in their online store – and customers to select Payright at the online checkout allowing them to opt for the “flexible” buy now, pay-later payment option for their purchases.
Russian security form Group-IB has discovered a JavaScript sniffer which they have dubbed GMO, which was designed to steal the payment data of customers from seven online stores in the UK and the US.
Global outdoors apparel and equipment vendor Kathmandu Holdings has suffered a breach of its online trading sites and says it is carrying out an investigation to find out the nature of the hack.
Four days after it denied that the payment checkout page on its website had been compromised, Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has completely changed its tune, admitting that it had indeed been attacked and nearly 40,000 users may be affected by the attack.
A British security outfit has raised the possibility that the online payment page of the phone company OnePlus may have been compromised, based on comments in OnePlus forums and the make-up of the site.
Payment technology company Square now allows merchants to use the same platform to accept online and in-person payments.
Australian ecommerce agency Netstarter, a Salmat company, is claiming a world-first with the development of a Magento 2.0 digital commerce site for local menswear label Venroy, and the online clothing company’s 38% increase in sales conversion over the past month.
Magento Commerce, the leading provider of open omni-channel innovation, announced that it has launched as an independent company, backed by the Permira funds. It is no longer an eBay company.
The newly released webMethods Integration Platform V9.9 from Software AG features enhanced hybrid cloud integration capabilities.
Magento is so good an ecommerce platform that eBay snapped it up, with the company releasing two new versions of its Enterprise and Community Editions, announced at its very recent MagentoLive conference held in Sydney, and we spoke to two top Magento execs about the developments, the company and the future!
Ecommerce platform provider Bigcommerce has appointed Tim Schultz as senior vice president of product management.
Digital commerce and marketing communications firm Salmat Digital has acquired Magento ecommerce specialist Netstarter.
Any company with over 40% market share must be doing something right, and e-commerce platform Magento seems extremely well placed to take advantage of Aussies' obsession with online shopping.
Cloud provider Rackspace has signalled its growing support for the Magento ecommerce platform by becoming a Magento platinum partner.
US-based hosting provider Nexcess is setting up shop in Australia.
Australian web-hosting provider Anchor has announced a partnership with Los Angeles based Magento, a subsidiary of eBay and a leading eCommerce platform provider.
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