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Over 45 of Australia’s leading retailers with a combined network of 1000 stores have joined forces to provide 100 per cent of profits from today's sales to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund.

CMO has filled our virtual sack with Christmas campaigns from the supermarket chains and big retailers to department stories and even the postal service to see how they’re sharing the message of Christmas this year. And we’ve canvassed some industry insiders and experts who share their reactions and analysis on this year’s batch of Christmas campaigns.

Coles has boosted its offering on eBay Plus, the online marketplace's paid member program, with a permanent discount on supermarket purchases and other shopping deals available through the platform.

EBay marketing leader, Julie Nestor, is switching online marketplace selling for hospitality and relocating to Singapore.

eBay Australia has embraced an omnichannel approach to reaching its buyers by launching its first Australian paper catalogue. There will also be a digital shoppable version of the catalogue online from next week.

​It’s been six months since Julie Nestor joined eBay Australia as chief marketing officer, and one of her initial priorities has been launching the online marketplace’s first loyalty program.

In a coup for eBay, long-time AMEX innovator, Julie Nestor, has been appointed to CMO of eBay, replacing Tim MacKinnon, who was promoted to managing director last year.

EBay has teamed up with Google’s AI-powered virtual assistant to allow Australian consumers to buy directly from their Google Home and Android smartphone in time for Christmas.

Competition in the online retail space is a good thing and will drive innovation, but there’s no need to be afraid Amazon is coming to Australia, according to eBay Australia’s CMO, Tim MacKinnon.

The impending arrival of Amazon on Australian shores has left many brands and retailers scrambling to implement a response. And it’s the way in which Amazon will serve the market that arguably offers the biggest industry shake-up and reshape how consumers access products and services for brands and retailers alike.

All the latest martech and adtech related news from Data61, Leadpages, SalesPredict, eBay, CenturyLink, Google, Rakuten, Tapa, Conversion Logic, Teradata, Zendesk and MaritzCX.

Zeta Interactive, the US-based email marketing player founded by ex-Apple CEO, John Sculley, is looking to take on marketing cloud giants such as Apple, Oracle and Salesforce after picking up the customer relationship management division of eBay Enterprise.

EBay has reached a deal to sell its enterprise unit, a division focused on building and running online shopping sites for bricks-and-mortar retailers, for less than half than it paid four years ago.

There are many ways you can expose products to the relevant customer without it being creepy, according to Ebay’s head of customer engagement, Harvey Sanchez.

Woolworths and eBay announced a delivery pickup service for customers to collect their online eBay purchases at their local supermarket.

In 2002 Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, issued an edict that all teams in his company were to expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. The edict gave rise to the creation of a service-oriented architecture within Amazon, with all interactions managed through application programming interfaces (APIs).

While many Australians know eBay as an ecommerce powerhouse, fewer know that the company also supplies the technology powering many other online retail experiences – and increasingly, a number of offline experiences as well.

A stronger set of features, possibly including payments, might be coming to Facebook's messaging properties now that former PayPal president David Marcus has come to work for the social network.

Apigee, the mobile API management firm, has acquired big data analytics company InsightsOne.

Google buys Waze. Yahoo buys Tumblr. Facebook buys Instagram.