The week ahead in online retail

If you are having trouble viewing this email, click here. October 26, 2014 Top stories from the past week Sponsored by: Amazon's North American sales grow 25% in Q3 And the year-over-year growth was an even more robust 30.6% in general merchandise and consumer electronics, as sales of books, music and video grew less than 5% in North America. Amazon's growth in general merchandise sales "shows massive market share gains continue in U.S. retail," one analyst says. Full Story Where did Apple Pay hit and miss? A Forrester Research report analyzes the early successes and failures of Apple's mobile payments system. Analyst Denée Carrington gives Apply Pay high marks for ease of use and security, but says Apple has yet to give consumers or retailers any incentive to embrace the new payment method.Full Story Competitive Analytics on Steroids—Top500Guide.com Numbers drive success in business—especially in e-commerce. And no other e-commerce resource keeps score better than the Top500Guide.com database, which provides interactive online access to up to 263 financial and operating measurements on each of the 4,000 e-retailers that it tracks worldwide. All-in-all, Top500Guide.com has over 600,000 facts on e-commerce operations all around the globe including all e-commerce solutions providers. Get the competitive advantage from using Top500Guide.com—Pricing starts as low as $239 per year Google gives its e-mail inbox another makeover The search giant's new e-mail software, called Inbox, gives consumers more ways to filter their inbound messages. That could force retailers to change their e-mail marketing strategies. Full Story Target.com offers free holiday shipping All orders ship free through Dec. 20, and toy orders through Christmas Eve. Target is also making more items available for store pick-up and introducing a new wish list app that lets a shopper get 10% off on everything on her list one day through the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Full Story E-retailer The Red Dress Boutique raises money on TV In an episode of the popular ABC show "Shark Tank," founders of the web-only fashion retailer ranked in the Second 500 Guide raise $1.2 million. Full Story Sponsored by: Oct. 27: BigCommerce will issue its first-ever quarterly e-commerce report. The report will include data from BigCommerce's clients on seasonal trends, category insights and the top 10 cities for e-commerce. The report will be available here Oct. 28: RebleX Business Group and Multimedia Development Corp will hold the fourth Asia eCommerce Conference 2014 at The Royale Chulan Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event features speakers from 12 e-commerce businesses, including PayPal and Akamai. Oct. 29: Pew Research will release a report about the future of cyber attacks. The report, part of Pew's ongoing series of reports marking the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, features views from experts who explain why they believe attacks on web sites will likely increase in the coming decade. Retailer earnings reports: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Crocs Inc., Q3 1-800-Flowers.com, Q1 Garmin Ltd., Q3 Avon Product Inc., Q3 Mercadolibre Inc., Q3   1-800-Flowers.com, Q1 Shutterfly Inc., Q3 Blue Nile Inc., Q3 Panasonic Corp. of North America, Q2   Vistaprint Ltd., Q1 Columbia Sportswear Co., Q3 Panasonic Corp. of North America, Q2     GNC Holdings Inc., Q3     hhgregg Appliances Inc., Q2 Mercadolibre Inc., Q3 IR Webinar Series - Featured Webinars   Customer Analytics for the Win Sponsored by SAS - Nov. 5, 1:00 PM CT - Register Today! Spotlight on B2B E-Commerce Sponsored by EpiServer - Nov. 6, 11:00 AM CT - Register Today! 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