Ulta Beauty Reports Strong First-Quarter Growth in Ecommerce

| Daniela Forte

Ulta Beauty continues to enhance the online shopping experience with new releases of the platform, including a product Q&A platform called “Ask Ulta” on the site and the addition of brand stores to highlight collections and the rest of the assortment, as well as promote services like the Benefit Brow Bars.

Olapic Announces Launch of Photorank at IRCE 2014

| MCM Staff

Visual commerce platform, Olapic, today announced the launch of its new Photorank algorithm tool to help brands identify and display customer photos that have the most potential to drive conversions in an ecommerce environment.

eGifter Launches Digital Gift Card Platform for SMB’s at IRCE 2014

| MCM Staff

The new platform, launching in coordination with IRCE 2014 easily integrates with any ecommerce or point-of-sale technology to provide an easy, low-risk entry for retailers implementing digital gift cards for the first time. Once in place, the rest of the eGifter stack of technology can help realize the program’s full potential.

Retailers Need to be Concerned About Global

| Tim Parry

U.S.-based retailers may see that International sales are making up less than 5% of their growth, and decide it’s not worth investing time and energy into global ecommerce. But Ken Burke, founder, chairman and CEO of MarketLive, says that should not be overlooked.