Mass marketing vs personalization (infographic)

We're going back to the future, according to Monetate: going back to a time when all commerce was personal.

Big data: a retailer’s guide to likes, tweets, reviews, customer data, and basically everything else (infographic)

Many retailers are using old dumb marketing techniques in a new smart world. And, therefore, missing out on sales.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas — prepping your site for the coming onslaught (infographic)

OK, it's September, and the holiday marketing season has officially begun.

Well, perhaps it's not quite time for Christmas music. But for those who want to prepare their websites for the most important shopping events of the year, now is definitely the time to get ready.

E-commerce optimization report: Social vs. search, Mac vs. PC, Safari vs. Chrome

Social still sucks compared to search, Apple users do, in fact, buy more. And the real browser war is not Chrome versus Internet Explorer, but Chrome versus Safari.

Tablets, smartphones, social, and search: what 100M purchases can teach you about online shopping

What can 100 million online shopping experiences teach you about e-commerce in 2012? Apparently quite a bit.

Monetate may not be a household name, but the company has its fingers in 20 percent of U.S. e-commerce traffic. With customers such …

Cloud ka-ching: OpenView raises $200M fund for big data services

Boston-based OpenView Venture Partners has raised a new $200 million fund with the goal of propping up cloud and operational support for enterprise-class companies, the firm announced Wednesday.

OpenView has a history of funding big data and cloud companies in …