E-Commerce

Clad, a new e-commerce partnership between J.C. Penney and Esquire magazine, will launch later this month. Clad will debut with labels including Michael Kors, Jack Spade, Rag & Bone, Cole Haan, Redwing, Vince, Seven for All Mankind, Citizens of Humanity, Joe’s Jeans, Hickey Freeman, Ben Sherman, Levi’s, Tumi, Malin + Goetz, Billy Jealousy and Kale Naturals.

On Sept. 7, Zara will be launching an e-commerce site in the U.S., meaning we'll finally catch up with the rest of the universe — or a good chunk of Europe — who have had such a luxury for a year now.

Sierra Trading Post announced the official launch of its new website after one year of beta testing. To celebrate the launch, the company is hosting an online party and giving away daily prizes such as an iPad2, Kindle or Nook, Nikon camera and thousands of dollars worth of gift cards. The launch celebration runs through Aug. 8.

A greeting card company targeted to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community is open for business in Las Vegas. The company, Teazled, saw a void while looking for greeting cards to celebrate holidays.

Lantronix, a global provider of smart connectivity solutions that enable cloud-based access to any device anywhere, anytime, announced that it's launched the first Lantronix e-commerce store.

Shopatron has completed its 2011 Retailer eCommerce Study and the results show that retail-integrated e-commerce is boosting sales for both brands and retailers. The survey, answered by almost 1,000 Shopatron retail partners, gives insight into how e-commerce influences a consumer brands’ online and in-store sales. And with over 90 percent of most brands’ sales happening in retail stores, branded manufacturers considering direct-to-consumer e-commerce should take heed.

The clones are attacking in droves. Amazon.com is quietly launching its own deal-of-day discount offers in Chicago. The Windy City, of course, is the corporate home of Groupon.

There's a certain state of euphoria that overtakes someone when they make the decision to add something to their shopping cart. They’re excited, their heart is racing and they’re completely ignoring the fact that in three minutes they’re going to wonder if they really need that giant owl locket.

Google has bought The Dealmap, expanding further into a potentially lucrative daily-deals market now dominated by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial. Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed.

More details have emerged of an e-commerce software flaw linked to the theft of credit card information from numerous websites. A security flaw in osCommerce, an open source e-commerce package, created a means for criminals to compromise 90,000 web pages with redirection scripts that ultimately directed surfers towards a site serving up an exploit toolkit designed to compromise visitors' PCs.