eBay acquires Magento
On the morning of June 6th, Magento Inc announced that it had had reached an agreement to be acquired by eBay Inc. The pending acquisition – scheduled to close in the 3rd quarter of 2011 – will enable Magento to accelerate our growth and extend our reach as part of eBay Inc.’s X.commerce platform. eBay is evolving to become a strategic commerce partner focused on delivering new ways for merchants of all sizes to drive innovation. As a centerpiece of this strategy, they are building a global, open commerce platform that leverages the worldwide … Full Story
Magento Enterprise v1.10.1 released
Magento Enterprise 1.10.1 was released a few days ago. Magento Inc. schedules such maintenance releases twice per year (the calendar quarter after a major release). The major updates includes enhancements on payment methods, better call center functionality both for the frontend- and backend. The new release also includes an alternative media storage like a CDN. The Magento Webservice APIs for the shopping cart and gift messages is also included, together with fixing of several security vulnerabilities. Full Story
Meet Magento in Germany in May
Meet Magento in Germany, May 16-17th 2011. Magento, eCommerce experts and 500 merchants for two adventure-filled days of engaging dialogue and networking at the Meet Magento Conference in Leipzig, Germany. Now in its fifth year, Meet Magento is one of the largest and exciting eCommerce events in Europe and an ideal meeting place for eCommerce merchants, business leaders and developers. Magento CEO Roy Rubin will hold a keynote at the conference. Click here for more details and tickets. Full Story
Magento Community Edition 1.5 released
Magento 1.5 was released last week, with hundreds of bugfixes and some important new features, the most important ones being an improved Import/Export profiler that now reads and writes the data at a much higher speed than before. Magento 1.5 also includes improvements in the API part of Magento, as well as the possibility to let your media folder now be in a CDN (Content Delivery Network). Full Story
Whats new in Magento 1.4.1.0?
Here’s a list of the new features in Magento 1.4.1.0, the most important ones being re-design of some important template files, recurring payment and billing agreements. Full Story
Magento Mobile released
Varien has now released their new product to Magento, called Magento Mobile. In short the Magento Mobile is a fully standalone mobile application which can be customized to fit your store’s requirements, and which pulls out the data from a particular StoreView in your Magento installation. The Magento Mobile application is currently available for Apple iPhone only, but will be made available for other platforms like Android and Maemo later this year. Full Story
Magento Professional Edition available for purchase
Not many Magento Partners have started selling Magento Professional Edition yet. So far only our partner Trollweb Solutions has begun taking orders. Full Story
Magento will be releasing new Magento Professional Edition
We have now got informasjon from trusted sources on that Varien is planning to release a Magento Professional Edition. The Professional Edition will include most of the features from Magento Enterprise, including Customer Credits and Gift Cards. We know this has been heavily asked-for by many clients and this will guaranteed boost Magento even more. We will be following this more next week and bring you more up to date news on it as we get it. Full Story
Magento Enterprise 1.8 released
Magento Enterprise 1.8 was released earlier today, with many new exciting features. New Features in Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 features a new module enabling merchants to increase customer retention through sending configurable, automated email reminders for abandoned shopping carts and wishlists. This enables merchants to target promotions and discounts to customers based on browsing activity. Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 also includes the addition of Solr as an alternative search engine to the standard Magento search, providing options to merchants for on-site search, and bringing enhancements to the speed, … Full Story
Best Magento theme so far?
Silverthemes has released the Magento Brage theme a few weeks ago, with a huge success. Already almost 100 stores have purchased the theme and either used it as-is or customized it to fit a particular design. The Brage theme also come in six different color schemes, which can be selected directly from the Magento Admin without having to touch any code whatsoever. Below are some screenshots of the theme. Full Story