With highlights ranging from the London Olympics to the presidential election, 2012 will truly be a year to remember. But as is true with every changing of the annual guard, the collective world looks forward to what’s to come. The e-commerce community alone is anxiously awaiting new developments in 2013.   Over the past 12 months, e-commerce businesses have grown by leaps and bounds thanks to a surge in online retail spending. E-tailers continued to adapt to consumer shopping habits, and...

Today’s technical age presents us with a lot of distractions – whether it be satellite television with a million and one channels, smartphones that are now able to talk back or our e-readers, which have the capacity to keep us wrapped up in reading until the end of time. While all of these things can provide us with new information, new conveniences and new ways to communicate, straightforward communication is becoming a casualty amongst all this technology. No matter how mundane...

Although window shopping doesn’t typically involve an intent to purchase, there once was a time when window shopping actually required leaving one’s house. These days, however, peering at a store through an Internet browser window is quite sufficient. Or is it? At the Internet Retailers Conference and Exhibition, speakers and attendees discussed how to leverage a commerce platform in the age of anywhere, anytime and any device. Because, after all, consumers want the ability to pull up a retailer's site at...

Staying abreast of new trends in the digital world is practically a full-time job, especially so considering the pace at which technology evolves. Mary Meeker, venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst covering the Internet, knows the lengths it takes to stay on top of the game. Nicknamed the Queen of the Net, she’s dedicated her life to not only staying in the know in terms of what’s trending, but steering the ship toward the horizon. To reiterate the difficulties of staying on...