— -- Facebook is becoming prime real estate for small retailers rather than the mega-mall that the big chains had hoped it would be. Second-quarter profits from Facebook stores were up 38% from ...

Ever since ecommerce pioneer 1-800-Flowers.com in July 2009 gave Facebook users a chance to initiate a sale via its page on the social network, the concept of F-commerce has generated a lot of buzz.

Discussions on Facebook’s IPO and inability to market successfully have been a topic of discussion for months. Sure, Facebook has a reach of nearly a billion users, but until it can be successfully ...

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Although many retailers are implementing strategies to drive sales using social media, some industry insiders remain skeptical because they are unable to prove the business case. This and other topics ...

To date, Facebook has focused the majority of its revenue efforts on ads, and, to a lesser extent, payment services around apps that run on its social platform. But Facebook commerce, where users buy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how social media, mobile, and the cloud impacts our web usage. Ever heard about F-commerce? Yes, you probably have: ...

Social commerce seemed to be, for the longest time, a DOA trend. Try as they might companies like Facebook and Twitter could not parlay their social networking bona fides into actual, statistically ...

Facebook can be an effective way to maintain communication with customers, but can the social network actually drive sales? Last week, Lolly Wolly Doodle founder Brandi Temple joined Varney & Co. to ...

A group of e-commerce start-ups, backed by some of the tech world's most pedigreed financiers, are betting that Facebook Inc can become an e-commerce powerhouse to rival Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc.

Last year, analysts predicted 2011 would be the year mobile commerce (m-commerce) took off, and they were right–sales nearly doubled over 2010. Now, 2012 is being hailed as the year of Facebook ...