— -- Facebook is becoming prime real estate for small retailers rather than the mega-mall that the big chains had hoped it would be. Second-quarter profits from Facebook stores were up 38% from ...

Facebook is a powerhouse for advertising and virtual goods with 500 million people using the service to communicate and share information with their friends. But are people as eager to click “buy” as ...

To date, Facebook has focused the majority of its revenue efforts on ads, and, to a lesser extent, payment services around apps that run on its social platform. But Facebook commerce, where users buy ...

Despite the fact that some big US brands have shuttered their Facebook storefronts, Facebook is likely to carve out a strong position as a commerce platform for certain types of businesses and ...

Discussions on Facebook’s IPO and inability to market successfully have been a topic of discussion for months. Sure, Facebook has a reach of nearly a billion users, but until it can be successfully ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how social media, mobile, and the cloud impacts our web usage. Ever heard about F-commerce? Yes, you probably have: ...

Facebook is expanding access to social commerce features. The tech giant is building an impressive set of social commerce tools that should make it a leader in the space. Insider Intelligence ...

How statistically significant is the recent growth in social commerce on Facebook? So glad you asked. Facebook v. Website: Where's the Traffic? This week, Adgregate Markets and Webtrends partnered to ...

Facebook can be an effective way to maintain communication with customers, but can the social network actually drive sales? Last week, Lolly Wolly Doodle founder Brandi Temple joined Varney & Co. to ...

A group of e-commerce start-ups, backed by some of the tech world's most pedigreed financiers, are betting that Facebook Inc can become an e-commerce powerhouse to rival Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc.