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Last May Magento announced Magento Mobile for iPhone, a powerful application that enables merchants to create unique, branded experiences for their customers on their iPhones.  In that time companies such as The North Face and Easton Bell Sports have built custom-designed mobile experiences that extend the power of their Magento stores to the iPhone. Now Magento is expanding Magento Mobile to the iPad and Android platforms.  Like the iPhone version, Magento Mobile for iPad and Android enable merchants to create branded, native storefront applications that are deeply integrated with Magento’s market-leading eCommerce ...

In March 2010 Magento announced that they have received sizable investment but kept the investor name secret. On Thursday eBay has revealed that they own 49% stake in Magento. Now, it’s officially confirmed that eBay owns 49% of Magento Inc. You might think that what does eBay have to do with Magento but the fact is eBay knows that normal retailers in the coming years will not only sell on eBay but use their own ecommerce versions i.e. Magento. eBay has cemented it’s place by owning Magento which is prominent ecommerce platform. EBay ...

Magento Go is a new Magento platform which helps small and emerging businesses to build a powerful store for selling products and services online, efficiently, quickly and easily. With Magento Go there is no software to install and configure and no servers to manage. Check out this video to understand Magento Go Magento SAAS is their new solution which was inevitable. Best part of Magento Go would be its ease by switching to open social platform which will further bring the development ...

In simpler terms conversion rate can be defined as “Number of people coming to your site against number of people who are actually buying your stuff”. I have seen many Magento store owners often get overwhelmed to see great traffic coming to their site organically from Google, Yahoo & Bing. But what about conversion rate? If 10000 people are coming to your site and only 20 people are buying from your site then there is something wrong for sure. Rather than increasing traffic to 20000 and get 40 people to buy your ...

Highslide JS is a media, image and gallery viewer written in JavaScript which is widely used for its functionality and simplicity. Adding Highslide JS in your Magento store is easy as you only have to follow few steps. Typically, Magento store owners only use Highslide JS or any other gallery JS to display their product images as a gallery, lightbox etc. but you can use Highslide to showcase your product images on your store’s front page or CMS pages. Possibilities are endless; all you have to do is think carefully before ...

Magento registry is a great way of sharing information anywhere in your Magento store as they are static function. In other words Magento registry implies creation of new global variables which can be accessed anywhere within your Magento store. Being a static function Magento registry can be called directly without the object being instantiated as in case of dynamic functions. Dynamic functions cannot be called without their object being instantiated that’s where Magento registry (static function) comes handy. Magento registry can be called like ClassName::StaticFunctionName() Magento registry has two basic functions ...

What are Magento widgets? If you are a Wordpress developer or got something to do with Wordpress theme customization you must have known how widgets make your life easy. Basically Magento widgets are dynamic or sometimes static blocks which are placed on the frontend (Store view of your website) to display custom features. Like any other widget Magento widgets also have predefined set of configuration options. For an example if you want to show latest 5 blog post titles or latest tweet you might use some widget rather than code ...