A Samwer leaves the mother ship to lead a new battleground, BigCommerce & Rubybox raises funding, Amazon and eBay users in Argentina hit with additional taxes.
The week past in ecommerce can be summarized as being focused on the future. Let me say firstly that Amazon put everyone on notice last night with their range of new Kindles. eBay acquiring Svpply is an interesting one but not totally unexpected for me. I got wind on a move earlier in the week but eBay definitely is adding alot of value to their New York operation.
BigCommerce raising an additional $20 million leads me to think that there definitely is a place for ecommerce enablers. They currently service 30 000 small to medium sized businesses, I wonder how many of those are in developing markets?