YC Alum Curebit Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System

Y Combinator alum Curebit, an online customer referral platform that leverages social media for “word-of-mouth” advertising, has just raised $1.2 million in funding. The investors include 500 Startups, Karl Jacob, Auren Hoffman, Dharmesh Shah, Gordon Tucker, Alex Lloyd of Accelerator Ventures, and others. The funding will be used for continued product development and a slight [...]

Magento Cloud Hosting is Proven Fast and Scalable

Email PDF Print Rexburg, ID (PRWEB) January 27, 2012 Pagoda Box sets a new standard for scalable Magento hosting with the latest ecommerce benchmarks. Performance results for a lightly optimized Magento install at various traffic levels are as follows: 995,000 Requests per Day = $89 mo 1,745,000 Requests per Day = $114 mo 2,350,000 Requests [...]

Integrating Magento with eBay Using M2E Pro

Online sellers were able to take a look at M2E Pro, an “extension” that integrates eBay with ecommerce platform Magento, during a webinar held Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 10 a.m. PT. Entitled “Reach Millions of Buyers Through eBay,” the webinar was led by ESS-UA executives Paul Pidoprygora, CEO; Alex Pidoprygora, Director of Marketing Business Development; [...]

Magento Go Leaving ProStores Users in the Lurch?

eBay’s support of Magento Go, the ecommerce solution for small business sellers acquired as part of Magento by eBay last year, has some ProStores users worried they’ll be left in the dust. One seller who’s been using ProStores since 2005 said, “Late last year, ProStores ended all eBay-related discounts – there had been several available [...]