While the rest of the world of volleyball begins the game with various serves from the back corner of the offensive court, EM2 Sports wasted no time in getting their new FastPivot.com-built Yahoo! Store across the net. Spike. And Score. But it’s not like these pros are new on the court. They are actually vets
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Yahoo! Store Merchants Can Now Customize Order Confirmation Emails
When Yahoo! Store customers order product, they are sent an order confirmation email. The problem is that email comes with a generic yhst- prefix (appearing before the order number) in the subject line. Most of the time customers probably don’t even know they’re shopping from a “Yahoo! hosted store” much less understand what that prefix
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New Yahoo! Store Slips on Bare Sole Sandals
Blue sky. Palms. Sunshine. Rope hammock. Step in the hot Florida Keys sand, and it’s a reminder that sure enough, something is out of place in paradise. Sandals, of course. But there’s no need to run off to the store, or even be at the beach for that matter to zoom in on blue sky,
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Yellowstone Launches New "Big Sky" Yahoo! Store
When Yellowstone does anything, it does it right. Tourists from all over the world are guaranteed a rawhide experience when they visit Yellowstone; with adventures ranging from snowmobiling to trout fishing, among hundreds of pristine miles of meditative evergreens, dotted with ear-ringing, frothy falls. And then there’s everyone’s favorite: Old Faithful. With giant technological advances
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Shop Translated Struts New Custom Homepage Banner Image Map
Shop Translated, a Yahoo! Store focusing on “translating” modern fashion trends for plus-sized women, recently up-styled their store. FastPivot’s development team assisted in the development of enhanced functionality, stream-lined interface and behind-the-scenes management systems. The site was widened overall, a new background was added, an enhanced footer was integrated. and the cart was wrapped to
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Yahoo! Stores May Lose Some Functionality for 30-40 Minutes During January 23-24 Update
Via Yahoo! Merchant Solutions: On Monday, January 23, at 7:30 p.m. PT, until Tuesday, January 24, at 6:30 a.m. PT, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions will be releasing several feature enhancements for your store. While we do this work, you may experience a 30 to 40-minute period during which shoppers may be unable to use coupons or
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Zappos Hack Reminder No Ecommerce 100% Safe
The NYTimes reported today that the famous and trusted shoe (and clothing) company, Zappos, was hacked, with 24 million customer accounts were exposed to potential identity theft, etc. This is another classic example of how hackers can strike an online company no matter how much security they purport to have in place, or how trusted
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How Google Updates Are Destroying Some Yahoo! Internet Retailers
By Jonathan Poston Manning the incoming calls of an ecommerce company isn’t as boring as it might sound. Sure, there are a billion technical questions that must be answered, but there’s the counseling part of it too. Yes, you heard right. Counseling. Merchants ring in distraught, desperate for a solution to looming calamity, but in
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Will Scott Thompson's New Leadership Affect Yahoo! Store Merchants?
By Jonathan Poston Today’s Bloomberg article,”Yahoo! Names PayPal’s Scott Thompson New CEO : Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the Internet company exploring strategic options,” is a nice warm welcome to Mr. Thompson as chief executive officer of the company. But, Mr. Thompson, who is coming to Yahoo! as an exiting president of EBay Inc., has a tough
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With China's Dangdang.com Hacked, How Safe Is Yahoo! ?
In the increasingly active world of internet hackers, no website or platform is off-limits. The hacker profile doesn’t seem to be well-defined enough for international authorities to put an end to mischief, and to make matters worse some groups are compelled to hack sites for a wide array of reasons; political protest, profit, and curiously
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