By Karina Welch, Corporate Marketing Manager, Blue Fountain Media It’s no secret: ecommerce is a multi-billion dollar industry that’s on fire. To b…

L.L. Bean received high praise for its customer service once again this year, grabbing the top spot in Prosper Insights & Analytics’ annual review of service excellence among retailers, a survey of more than 6,500 U.S. adults in September, according to Prosper’s report.

Paypal just created an easy way for Chinese shoppers to access its 17 million US and international merchants.

Just over a month after Walmart bought Bonobos, a new online men’s apparel company has opened its virtual doors. Taylrd launched Aug. 1 with a similar brand message as Bonobos — men aren’t all that keen on spending a lot of time shopping for clothes, but still want well-fitting basics

In the U.S., there’s a lot of discussion about whether Microsoft and Google will eventually catch Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the cloud market. But some experts predict it will be an outsider, namely China-based Alibaba, that will soon battle AWS for U.S. cloud dominance.

Now, Stripe’s Patrick and John Collison are teaming with Amazon to grab even more control over the global flow of commerce.

Marriott will work with Alibaba to increase its footprint in China.

​Holes-in-one are cool, but usually they need a few bounces on the green before the find the hole. Not this slam dunk from Marcel Siem, though.