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Customers trying to shop at Amazon.com Thursday afternoon found the store shut down for about an hour due to a technical problem.
A spokesman says the problem was internal and not caused by a denial of service attack like those affecting Amazon and other popular sites last month. Nor was the shutdown caused by heavy traffic for Stephen King's first e-book, the spokesman adds. The book was unavailable Thursday because too many people were trying to download it.
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60-65% of the retailer’s sales come from repeat shoppers, the CEO says.
Web sales fall 28% for the auto parts retailer.
The retailer says the social network’s new “product pins” are helping it attract shoppers.
E-commerce accounts for 13.6% of the apparel chain’s global sales.
The search giant tests quick shipments in the San Francisco area.
Fifteen retailers reported faster web growth than Amazon in late 2012.
CyberSource’s annual report notes an average fraud rate of .9% of online revenue.
It also projects its revenue to grow more than 50% to $21.5 billion by 2015.
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