Press Archive
A Nourishing Storm
November 10, 2006
A small Portland company whose software has multiplied profits for its customers is now making money itself. Read More »
Monsoon Announces the Launch of Monsoon for Amazon Seller Central
July 05, 2006
Monsoon, the premier provider of online marketplace sales management software, today announced the addition of Amazon Seller Central to its list of markets served. For Monsoon users, this means that selling non-media items on Amazon is now possible through Monsoon. Product categories that can now be sold on Amazon Seller Central include: Console Games, Computer Games, Computers, Consumer Electronics, Computer and Electronics Accessories, Camera and Photo, Tools and Hardware, and many others. Read More »
Selling Your Inventory Online
March 24, 2006
Retail may not be dead, but it is finding new life online. Retail overstock, damaged items and customer returns have long found buyers on eBay. Now, many retailers are turning to the online marketplace to expand their core business or to become multichannel sellers, without the cost of leasing more real estate. Read More »
Monsoon Announces the Launch of Monsoon Express
March 07, 2006
Monsoon, the premier provider of online marketplace sales management software, today announced its launch of Monsoon Express. Aimed at smaller sellers, Express now makes Monsoon's suite of dynamic pricing engine and powerful marketplace sales management software available to sellers of all sizes. Read More »
Local stores finding 'net sales a necessary 'evil' to doing business
February 27, 2006
As Amazon.com grabs headlines about its acrimonious legal battle with Toys 'R' Us, small retailers in the valley are divided on the Internet site's impact on their own businesses. The big boys' messy dispute is far from the mind of Rich Rosen, owner of Wax Trax Records, which has so far resisted the online marketplace craze. Read More »
Monsoon Certified by Amazon Services to Provide Price Optimization Technology to Amazon Retailers
February 01, 2006
Monsoon, the premier provider of online marketplace sales management software, today announced that it is now an Amazon Services certified provider of price optimization technology to retailers selling their products through the Amazon Marketplace. Monsoon began building software for retailers selling through the Amazon.com Web site in 2002 by being among the first software development companies to leverage the Amazon product data and technology platform offered through Amazon Web Services. Read More »
Angel Oregon Winners Blessed With Money
June 17, 2005
The winner of the Angel Oregon business plan competition has gotten more than twice as much investment as originally promised. The two runners-up haven't done badly either, according to Eric Pozzo, chairman of the March event. "By my accounting, $335,000 has already gone into these companies, with many investors still on the sidelines waiting to see if more will be wanted." Pozzo said. Read More »
Amazon.com creates a Web of opportunity
June 11, 2004
Amazon.com's ever-increasing cornucopia of offerings, from books to bobble heads to barn coats, is now luring Web developers who hope to make money by drawing on the Seattle-based online merchant's huge databases. Read More »
Amazon relying more on web services to build merchant connections
April 21, 2004
True to the vision started by founder Jeff Bezos to leverage the unique properties of the Internet, Amazon is aggressively moving into web services technology to make it easier for its merchant alliance partners to not only link to Amazon.com but also to gather and analyze product and pricing information from its databases, Jeff Barr, Amazon's technical program manager for web services, tells Internet Retailer. Read More »
Monsoon Digs Deep for Internet Data
February 16, 2004
Two years ago, Kanth Gopalpur found himself at a career crossroads. After successful stints as head of e-commerce for Powell's Books and music retailer Djangos.com, Gopalpur -- a native of Calcutta, India -- toyed with the idea of opening an Indian restaurant. He was one day away from signing a lease on an east side location when he had a sudden change of heart. "I thought I could spend $200,000 doing that, or do what I knew with no investment," Gopalpur recalled. "I don't know what I was thinking." Read More »
Amazon moves to front line of shaping 'Web services'
September 30, 2003
Before sending a warehouse-size load of old books to a recycler's grinding mill last summer, Phil McMullin made a last-ditch call to online bookseller Amazon.com. Amazon steered McMullin, director of recycling for the 200-unit Savers thrift store chain, to Monsoon Retail Development Systems, a small Portland, Ore., software shop. Read More »
Former Powells.com Exec Forms Online Retail Consultancy
September 19, 2002
The executive who led Powell's Books' move into cyberspace and later helped Djangos.com become a success online has formed an internet retail consulting firm. Read More »