Your shop everywhere

April 2, 2010

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A lot have been talked about distributed e-commerce, the ability of selling everywhere in the web, not only at your online shop but also at your blogs, Facebook account or external affiliates’ blogs. From now on, any shop in Vendder, our e-commerce platform, can be embedded at any external page, with a simple copy-paste code, just [...]

Amazon Ec2 image with Nginx, Varnish, PHP-FPM and Mysql

February 18, 2010

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We have just released a new Amazon AMI (m1.small) running Nginx, Varnish, PHP 5.2.11 (with eAccelerator and the PHP-FPM patch) and Mysql. The image is called widetail-ubuntu9.10 (ami-05a18a71) and is located in the EU West region. The image is running ubuntu 9.10 karmic and was based in ami-2fc2e95b from canonical. It’s perfect to run Magento or [...]

Internet shopping per adult in the EU in the last 3 months

January 27, 2010

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“The prospects for the e-commerce sector look very healthy over the next few years, with our nVision forecast predicting 70% growth in the proportion of people shopping online. By 2013, almost half of Europeans are expected to make a purchase online, up from 21% in 2006. Numbers are expected to grow most rapidly in Southern Europe, albeit from [...]

Project Presentation

December 23, 2009

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We have been busy, finishing up the developments of the first phase of our ecommerce platform and on Friday, the 18th, we hosted a very informal presentation at Hub Porto about the current state of your project and future ambitions with it. Circa 20 people were there, showing interest in the concept, giving us valuable feedback [...]

Presentation of our e-commerce platform

December 14, 2009

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Widetail invites you to participate in an informal presentation of the e-commerce platform that have been developing and which will be launched at the beginning of 2010. This platform allows small business who have no computer skills or don’t want to invest in dedicated e-commerce solutions to easily establish an online presence. The presentation will take place [...]

Portuguese E-Commerce in Numbers

November 12, 2009

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Data from the Portuguese Knowledge Society Agency, a Governamental Agency, concerning 2007, shows that from the 67% of the Portuguese people, age between 16 and 74, using the national ATM Network, MULTIBANCO: 76% : Top-up their mobile phones; 57% : Pay their house bills, like water, electric, land line, television, internet consumptions; 10% to 14% : Pay for internet [...]

Video: Welcome to Magento

November 10, 2009

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Introduction video presented in Meet Magento and Bargento

Free Magento Templates

November 9, 2009

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Below you’ll find a showcase of excellent Magento templates for your e-commerce website. This templates can either be used directly in your Magento store or as a foundation for your costumized theme.

Headphones at open-space offices

October 29, 2009

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If you are on the Software Business, from startups to multi-nationals, it is very likely you are working in an open-space office type. There are many reasons why companies choose this sort of working environment, mainly it fosters colleagues interaction and it helps to reduce space costs. There is also a downside for it: productivity. Fortunately, throughout [...]

Internet shopping orders fail across the EU borders

October 24, 2009

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European shoppers looking to purchase products from other EU countries on the Web are likely to fail 60% of the times, according with the a study from the European Comission. There are many reasons why this happens, but the main ones are: the language barrier. many e-commerce websites are only in the country language. many different payment systems. [...]