Billabong unloads two online stores
Billabong has agreed to sell two of its e-commerce businesses, SurfStitch and Swell, for $35 million to a consortium that includes SurfStitch founders Justin Cameron and Lex Pedersen "Billabong International Limited today announces the outcome of the strategic review...
2Checkout partners with WooThemes
Online payment provider 2Checkout has partnered with WooThemes to offer 2Checkout’s online payment technology to WooCommerce users. The integration allows WooCommerce merchants in nearly 200 countries to accept payments in 26 currencies, as well as increases...
Irish immigrant taps tasty treats for succulent success
Irish backpacker Eamon Eastwood brought a bunch of Tayto crisps with him to sell to Irish pubs when he visited Australia in 2000 and 14 years later, he's running a booming import business that now supplies Woolworths and Coles, as well as having an online component....
Woolworths to expand its online liquor sales arm
Supermarket and liquor giant Woolworths is planning a dramatic expansion of its Dan Murphy’s online business, which already has 46% of the online liquor sales market in Australia. The new plan will see beer, wine and spirits producers have products shipped to...
Australia prime target for DDoS attacks
Australia is high on the list of targets for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, an online security expert says. A DDoS attack floods a target device or application with high volumes of irregular requests, which swamp the device or application and cause...
WooCommerce hits 4 million downloads, new version coming soon
OPMC's favourite e-commerce platform, WooTheme's WooCommerce WordPress plugin, has hit the 4 million downloads mark. The announcement comes as the company prepares to release WooCommerce 2.2 later this quarter. WooCommerce, which is free to download and use, is the...
New app lets WooCommerce users print and ship branded t-shirts easily
Print Aura, a Sacramento, CA-based company, has created a free app for WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, Storenvy, and Etsy users to automatically print and ship t-shirts to their customers. Print Aura’s apps are free to install and configure and allow users to...
Sisters with fast growing business give advice for entrepreneurs
You may not know who sisters Sali and Julie Stevanja are, but you should be listening to their business advice. Why? Because their e-commerce store Stylerunner, which the siblings started in 2012, has achieved almost 600% year-on-year growth and their social media...
New website allows wine drinkers to fund the wine they want to drink
The Wine Federation of Australia has launched a new website that allows wine consumers to directly buy from wine producers, bypassing the middleman. The appropriately named From The Producer website is a non-profit website and is the initiative of entrepreneur and...