E Commerce

  • BusinessAOL

    Real gifts to be sold on Facebook

    Stephan Jansen/PA We will soon be able to buy gifts through Facebook as the social network makes a small move to becoming an e-commerce site. Launched initially in the US, the new feature will allow users to buy and send products from select

  • BusinessAOL

    Drunken purchases are easier online

    First the good news: a new report from HaveYouSeen suggests that over half of us are cutting down on impulse buys because of the recession. This should mean a bit less of the credit boom that did so little to help the current economy. The bad news

  • TechnologyAOL

    Will the cookie law make us crumble?

    About a month from now the law on how companies can use Cookies (the computer code, not the biscuit) changes in Europe as the Privacy and Communications Directive comes into force. Essentially businesses will have to get your permission before

  • BusinessAOL

    eBay grows fastest in UK

    The UK has become the fastest growing territory for eBay and the company's activities over here arte outpacing most e-commerce growth as a result. Given that e-commerce growth averages 15% that's a pretty reasonable rate when the economy