Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Yahoo's E-Commerce Mess

On Monday, Yahoo's e-commerce services that is used by many small merchants started experiencing difficulties in the checkout process. Yahoo's e-commerce service was out for hours and caused many merchants who use Yahoo's service to lose out on business they lost from the problems but it was also magnified because Monday was also "Cyber Monday" which is a big online shopping day after Thanksgiving. The problems have now been fixed but one unhappy merchant brought up the question about when Google will start their own merchant service. Its abundantly clear that e-commerce has grown over the years and how much more business it brings many businesses so having a reliable way to sell merchandise online is very vital.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9824045-7.html?tag=nefd.top

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