<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
			xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
		>

<channel>
	<title>Gigaom Search &#187; Technologies and Products &#187; e-commerce</title>
	<atom:link href="http://search.gigaom.com/technology/e-commerce/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://search.gigaom.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:34:30 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>Strange bedfellows: Amazon sets up shop on Alibaba site</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/06/strange-bedfellows-amazon-opens-store-on-alibaba-site/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/06/strange-bedfellows-amazon-opens-store-on-alibaba-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alibaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aliyun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:AMZN]]></category>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=919342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com has opened an online presence on rival Alibaba's Tmall superstore, according to Reuters and other outlets citing an Alibaba spokesman.  are both prodigious online retailers and rivals and both are eying the other's&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/06/strange-bedfellows-amazon-opens-store-on-alibaba-site/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>If you thought cloud competition couldn&#8217;t get hotter, think again</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/if-you-thought-cloud-competition-couldnt-get-hotter-think-again/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/if-you-thought-cloud-competition-couldnt-get-hotter-think-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 03:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alibaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alyun]]></category>
<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:GOOG]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:MSFT]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:GOOG]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:MSFT]]></category>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=918653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened a data center hub in Silicon Valley, adding yet another gigantic player to a growing, but already hotly-contested cloud computing market. Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud computing arm, has been&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://gigaom.com/2015/03/03/if-you-thought-cloud-competition-couldnt-get-hotter-think-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Visa expands its online payments service Checkout to 16 countries</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/19/visa-expands-its-online-payments-service-checkout-to-16-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/19/visa-expands-its-online-payments-service-checkout-to-16-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payment systems]]></category>
<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NYSE:AXP]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[nyse:v]]></category>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=915735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After seven months of testing Visa Checkout in the U.S., Canada and Australia, the financial giant has decided to bring the online payments service to 13 additional countries in 2015. Checkout&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/19/visa-expands-its-online-payments-service-checkout-to-16-countries/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>OpenStack comes up huge for Walmart</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/17/openstack-comes-up-huge-for-walmart/</link>
		<comments>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/17/openstack-comes-up-huge-for-walmart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barb Darrow]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenStack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software-derined network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trove]]></category>
<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NYSE:RAX]]></category>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=915167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those skeptics who still think OpenStack isn't ready for prime time, here's a tidbit: @WalmartLabs is now running in excess of 100,000 cores of OpenStack on its compute layer. And that's growing by the&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://gigaom.com/2015/02/17/openstack-comes-up-huge-for-walmart/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Braintree’s bitcoin API is now available to merchants in beta</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/22/braintrees-bitcoin-api-is-now-available-to-merchants-in-beta/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/22/braintrees-bitcoin-api-is-now-available-to-merchants-in-beta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=908880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PayPal’s developer arm Braintree has finished its initial integration work with Coinbase, and is opening up a beta program to its online merchants and mobile developers who want to start accepting&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/22/braintrees-bitcoin-api-is-now-available-to-merchants-in-beta/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>On the way to $220M in funding, Instacart quietly changed its business model</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/14/on-the-way-to-220m-in-funding-instacart-quietly-changed-its-business-model/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/14/on-the-way-to-220m-in-funding-instacart-quietly-changed-its-business-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carmel DeAmicis]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[$220 million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[couriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delivery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[different prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food product]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grocery store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grocery store transaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head of business development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instacart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instacart raises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logistics technology space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[margins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revenue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[than in stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why are instacart's food prices different]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=906572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In its early days, grocery store delivery startup Instacart made its money two ways: Through delivery fees and product markups. It charged customers more for individual groceries than their in-store price. But&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/14/on-the-way-to-220m-in-funding-instacart-quietly-changed-its-business-model/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Kickstarter dumps Amazon Payments in favor of Stripe</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/06/kickstarter-dumps-amazon-payments-in-favor-of-stripe/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/06/kickstarter-dumps-amazon-payments-in-favor-of-stripe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Fitchard]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdfundng]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online transactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pledges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project creators]]></category>
<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:FB]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:FB]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NYSE:SNE]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NYSE:TWTR]]></category>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=904522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crowdfunding powerhouse Kickstarter is taking its $529 million in annual pledges and moving them to a different payment processor. In a blog post Tuesday, Kickstarter revealed it is ditching Amazon Payments&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://gigaom.com/2015/01/06/kickstarter-dumps-amazon-payments-in-favor-of-stripe/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>2015: The &#8220;college experimentation&#8221; year of mobile payments</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/27/2015-the-college-experimentation-year-of-mobile-payments/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/27/2015-the-college-experimentation-year-of-mobile-payments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2014 20:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Column]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payment systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[payment-services]]></category>
<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:AAPL]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:FB]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:GOOG]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NASDAQ:SBUX]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:AAPL]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:AMZN]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:FB]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NSDQ:GOOG]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[NYSE:TWTR]]></category>
		<category domain="http://search.gigaom.com/stock/"><![CDATA[nyse:v]]></category>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=902608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In November, when Dutchman Martin Wisjeimer became the first man to inject Bitcoin keys inside his hands, he captured the spirit of payments in 2015. Will others be crazy enough to try this? Maybe&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/27/2015-the-college-experimentation-year-of-mobile-payments/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Belarus blocks news and commerce websites over currency fears</title>
		<link>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/22/belarus-blocks-news-and-commerce-websites-over-currency-fears/</link>
		<comments>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/22/belarus-blocks-news-and-commerce-websites-over-currency-fears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ruble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gigaom.com/?p=902150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fearing a run on banks and shops due to a faltering currency, the authorities in Belarus have blocked several news and e-commerce websites, according to reports. The Belarusian state-controlled economy is&#8230;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://gigaom.com/2014/12/22/belarus-blocks-news-and-commerce-websites-over-currency-fears/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The customer-experience mandate: Build lasting engagement with better websites</title>
		<link>http://research.gigaom.com/report/the-customer-experience-mandate-build-lasting-engagement-with-better-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://research.gigaom.com/report/the-customer-experience-mandate-build-lasting-engagement-with-better-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Burns]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backend infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer experience management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital-marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information technology management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[networks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://research.gigaom.com/?post_type=go-report&#038;p=242596/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Immersive, seamless web experiences that attract and engage customers for lasting relationships require updated platforms and flexible infrastructure.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://research.gigaom.com/report/the-customer-experience-mandate-build-lasting-engagement-with-better-websites/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>