Ecommerce

eBay Agrees to Acquire Magento

Written by Patrick Walsh Wednesday, 08 June 2011 10:48

After first investing in Magento over the last twelve months, eBay has acquired the company. In combination with a number of other recent e-commerce acquisitions, eBay will use Magento to create an e-commerce platform called X.Commerce.

A key element of eBay's strategy is to "build an open global commerce operating system that leverages the worldwide developer community and serves merchants of every size."

"With this acquisition, eBay is placing Magento at the core of their global X.commerce platform."

"From an operational standpoint, very little will change."

(Roy Rubin, Co-founder and CEO of Magento)

According to eBay, X.Commerce is eBay's newly created integrated open commerce platform group. "It is focused on leveraging the company’s assets and partner technologies to build a strong, robust developer community as a resource for merchants and retailers of all sizes."

'Magento Go' Soon To Be Released

Written by Patrick Thursday, 10 February 2011 16:25

In an interesting development Magento have announced that they are entering the cloud with the impending release of Magento Go - a Software as a Service (SaaS) flavor of Magento and the Magento Go Platform, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that will enable developers to build applications for Magento Go.

We have been working with Magento since it's first Beta release.

You can read about the Magento services we provide on our Magento services page.

Introducing Magento Mobile For mCommerce

Written by Administrator Thursday, 09 September 2010 14:32

What is Magento mobile?

According to Magento:

"Magento Mobile is a product that makes it easy for Magento merchants to create customizable, native storefront apps for the iPhone, with support for the Android and iPad scheduled for later this year. Included in the current product is an admin panel to customize and configure your mobile storefront, as well as the ability to submit your iPhone app to the iTunes App Store directly from within the Magento admin."

Compatibility

Magento Mobile is compatible with Community Edition 1.3 and higher, Enterprise Edition 1.6 and higher, and Professional Edition 1.8 and higher.

Pricing

When you are ready to submit your iPhone app through the Magento Mobile admin, you need only pay a one-time €628 start-up fee, as well as a €549 annual maintenance fee. There is also a monthly-payment program available for €54/month.

Head on over to the Magento Mobile home page for a more comprehensive introduction.