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Smartphone wars on eBay: Blackberry vs. iPhone

Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc.
Victoria, BC, Canada

January sales figures released by Avian Research revealed a decline in iPhone sales while Blackberry experienced an increase. Online trends in eBay could eventually reflect this offline trend with recent figures released from Terapeak on smart phone sales. Despite being currently outnumber by iPhones in the ecommerce market, the [...]

[ More ] March 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Company Blog |

iPod Shuffles are for Girls

Women prefer cheap & simple portable MP3 players
Yesterday, Apple revealed a smaller and simpler iPod Shuffle amid great hoopla.  The new product features more storage, a much smaller form factor, and a feature called “VoiceOver” which rather usefully, given the lack of a screen, tells you what song is playing and who the artist is.  [...]

[ More ] March 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments | Posted in Company Blog, Featured |

Fine jewellery and watches on eBay defy the economic downturn

Valentine’s Day is commonly associated with luxury items as an expression of undying love. As everybody’s favorite romantic holiday passed, sharp increases in the sales of such items were expected.
Are there bright spots hidden in the gloom and doom currently given by the media? The answer is a resounding yes.
Since August 2008, eBay sales of [...]

[ More ] March 12th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

It is official: the eBay community favors new laptops from HP while Dell languishes

As recently reported on this blog, HP had impressive results on the eBay USA platform during Q3 2008. What has happened since then? Last month, HP posted a 13% loss in profit for its fourth quarter and Dell reported a 48% decline in profit for the same period.
Despite the downturn in offline sales for both [...]

[ More ] March 12th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

eBay USA: a safe haven for Dell

As the US savings rate increases to an all time high since 1997, it seems that eBay is increasingly becoming a safe haven for various products including Dell technology.
For the fourth quarter, Dell has reported a profit of $351 million USD. This is a 48% decrease from their Q3 2008 profit of $727 million USD. [...]

[ More ] March 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Company Blog |

AERS & OMI Announce Gaming Analytics Partnership

Delivering realtime feedback for developers and realtime intelligent ad targeting for advertisers
VICTORIA, BC (March 11, 2009) – OverInterActive Media Inc. (OMI) and Advanced E-commerce Research Systems Inc. (AERS) are proud to announce an online gaming analytics partnership that delivers privacy-respecting, real-time use-data and analytics to developers, and real-time intelligent in-game ad placement to advertisers.
AERS and [...]

[ More ] March 11th, 2009 | 4 Comments | Posted in News & Events |

AERS & DailySplice Announce Podcast Analytics Partnership

Partnering for podcast analytics aggregation and realtime intelligent ad targeting
VICTORIA, BC (March 11, 2009) – DailySplice Technologies Inc. and Advanced E-commerce Research Systems Inc. (AERS) are proud to announce a podcast analytics aggregation and intelligent ad targeting partnership that delivers privacy-respecting use-data and analytics to the new-media community, and real-time intelligent ad placement to [...]

[ More ] March 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News & Events |

AERS and Calexus Cooperation Creates a New Generation of Business Information

VICTORIA, BC (March 5, 2009) – Advanced E-commerce Research Solutions (Advanced) and Calexus Solutions LLC today announced a partnership that focuses on providing deep market and consumer insights from within some of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms. Advanced is the world’s leading provider of information developed through the analysis of e-commerce data, and Calexus employs [...]

[ More ] March 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in News & Events |