Blog

Around 2,000 Ecommerce sites hit with a new attack targeted those sites running on Magento version 1, a version of the e-commerce software that is past end-of-life. The cyberattacks in which hackers implant malicious computer code into websites and third-party suppliers of digital systems to steal credit card info as people enter it at a checkout page are known as MageCart. The classic MageCart attack on the 2nd weekend of September 2020 is considered as the largest ever automated MageCart hack. Sansec researchers are the ones that discovered the hacks and stated that the incidents are still under investigation. “The massive scope of this weekend’s incident illustrates increased sophisticati...

Thirteen long years into E-commerce development, I can't stop thinking about the first custom E-commerce application I developed on a PHP based custom framework in 2007. The very next year in 2008 was when I took a step ahead with Magento1 and held onto it for quite a long time. As a keen observer of the trends in E-commerce development, I have seen many platforms that would come and go. But it was a few years ago that I struck a chord with the German-based E-commerce platform called Shopware. Though Shopware 5, a matured system, continues to reign as the top E-commerce platform in Germany, it was the new version Shopware 6 that I fell in love with! Built on a modern tech...

Computing technologies are evolving more than ever into the AI (Artificial Intelligence) space. Big tech companies already started to show off their AI-powered applications. An example would be the Google assistant that can fix a haircut appointment. Companies like Google have been inviting developers to the development process, but this required big data sets and better machines. In 2015 Google released Tensorflow, an open-source Machine Learning library with the data flow of machine learning and neural networks for research and production. Machine Learning (ML) is a prominent approach to AI implementation. Tensorflow pro...

Starting an E-commerce business is easy but surviving is difficult. Do you know which was the first E-commerce business to achieve success? It was back in 1995, Amazon was launched but achieved its first profit in 2001. New E-commerce businesses are launching and shutting down each and every day. Sometimes all you need to achieve success may be a few things. Today’s E-commerce is quite different from what it was 5 years ago. To survive you must know how to grab and retain customers. Using an opensource software like Magento as the e-commerce platform you can easily launch and work well with selling online. This article is focused on the top 10 creative and must do marketing strategies to achieve success in your online sales in 2018.   1. Keep your store design profes...