| Mercado Joins Bazaarvoice Radius to Help Marketers Execute Integrated Social Commerce Strategies
Mercado, a leading eCommerce solution provider, today announced that it has joined Bazaarvoice Radius (www.bazaarvoice.com/radius), a breakthrough program designed to accelerate the strategic adoption of social commerce by brand marketers, direct marketers, agencies, and technology vendors. Through Bazaarvoice Radius, Mercado now offers marketers an integrated social commerce tool that combines site search and merchandising with Bazaarvoice to deliver a shopping experience that brings shoppers closer to a purchase decision by adding relevant and compelling reviews and ratings to the criteria by which shoppers navigate and select items for purchase. .
Credit card payments for flights, meals 'the most risky'
A study by the European Commission shows people using credit cards to pay for flights online and meals at restaurants are the most likely to be targeted by fraudsters. According to the report, which analyses the actions undertaken by EU member states on the prevention of payment fraud between 2004 and 2007, buying plane tickets online is one of the least secure transactions. Gaming and gambling on the web are also fraud-prone, while away from the online world, the most common crime against non-cash payments is the so-called skimming, that is, the copying of card details by specific reading machines mainly used in restaurants, where waiters collect cards for payment and can copy them when not seen by the owners. "Online fraud is considered the easiest due to the relative simplicity of stealing an identity in the online world," the study states.
Infopia Launches Professional Services Group
Infopia, the industry leader in online, multi-channel selling solutions, announced today that it has launched a new Professional Services group. The new group offers services and solutions that address a wide range of eCommerce on-ramping and growth challenges faced by online merchants today. .
Thieves steal Peter Gabriel servers
The servers for Peter Gabriel's record labels have been stolen from his ISP, leaving the artist without an online presence. Gabriel was one of the first musicians to recognise the power of the internet in distributing music, and had made sure that his Real World and World of Music, Arts and Dance (Womad) organisations were online early. But a raid on his internet service provider has left the label without an internet presence, according to the singer. "The majority of Real World, Peter Gabriel and Womad web services are currently offline," Gabriel said on his website. "Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night. We are working to restore normal service as soon as possible." It is unknown whether the theft was a targeted attack or just another example of thieves grabbing high value servers for resale.
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