If your site uses Google map functionality to pinpoint your locations or power a find your store function then you might be impacted with the changes to how Maps now works.
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Change to Sales Tax Laws
Supreme Court says states can collect online sales tax, consumers likely to pay more.
Confused About PayPal's 30 June Emails?
PayPal is sending out emails and displaying browser warnings regarding their 30 June PCI security change. But what is the story if your browser is already up to date?
Magento gets sold again
Adobe Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Magento for $1.68 billion, in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the digital-commerce industry from Salesforce.com Inc. and Oracle Corp. Where does that leave the future of its open source?
Are you ready for GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect on 25 May 2018. A lot of US based small eCommerce operations are ignoring GDPR in the belief that being small means it does not impact them. Whether or not it does, this is a good time to review not only how you handle customer data but who handles it.
New Visa Chargeback Process
Suffering from ongoing Credit Card Fraud and unfair chargebacks? Looks like Visa is going to try and help
Magento Credit Card Hack
Yes once again Magento is being targetted for credit card fraud. According to Flashpoint, “attackers who are using brute-force password attacks to access administration panels to scrape credit […]
osCommerce Then and Now
osCommerce, once the light of open source eCommerce, has been dogged with rumors of its demise which started with the initial release of Magento. A clever marketing campaign, perhaps on the part of Varien to steal market share, it has re-emerged from time to time. No having release every couple of months was actually a good thing. It meant there were no defects. However with the announcement of the development of 2.4 and the passing of the original release date of August 2017, the question arises again albeit this time legitimately. Is there a future in osCommerce?
WordPress Gutenberg
WordPress Gutenberg is a new editor for WordPress that, according to WordPress “A new publishing experience for WordPress is in the works: get ready to make your […]
Authorize.net TLS 1.2 D Day
Authorize.net will no longer allow TLS 1.0 or 1.1 as of is February 28, 2018. This means the server your site runs on must be using TLS 1.2 […]