The big news this past week was the launch of Jet.com, which we wrote about a few days back. However, there has been quite a bit of interesting news going on in the world of online shopping lately, so we thought we would round it all up and feed it to you in this nice little easily digestible package. We have stories about the increasingly intimate dance online shopping has been doing with social media, new security measures that will…

Amazon.com is likely on high alert this week, because this week, a new online shopping website launched and it is looking to compete directly with Amazon. I am talking, of course, about Jet.com. You may be wondering…How does some new kid on the block expect to compete directly with online shopping’s biggest powerhouse? Well Jet.com isn’t just any online retailer. Jet.com is a membership based price club which aims to save you money in any and every way it can,…

Amazon.com is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow. It has dubbed July 15 2015, ‘Prime Day’. You have probably heard of Amazon Prime. It works like this. For $99 per year, Prime subscribers are entitled to free two-day shipping within the US. Amazon started Prime in 2005 and has been adding in other benefits since then, like early access to lightning deals. Prime Day is the latest in the series of benefits Amazon gives to Prime customers. Amazon has stated that…

As technology progresses, the ways in which we save money progress as well. Case in point is the used cell phone market. When buying a phone, you have many options. You can decide to get a subsidized phone with a contract from a major cell carrier, but these phones are priced very deceptively and often end up costing you much more in the long run. You can also buy a brand new phone from a retailer. This is an attractive…