Launch

CarSpring has launched in the United Kingdom. This new online marketplace offers a solution for people who want to buy and sell pre-owned cars. But it's not only that, the startup also wants to take over all the unpopular side effects of car buying: from paperwork to transportation. For example, CarSpring delivers the ordered car right onto the customer's doorstep.

Paymill has launched its partner program, where merchants, agencies and payment experts can offer customers help with the integration of Paymill. The online payments company says partners will also get a personal consultant for themselves and their customers.

HMV, an entertainment retailer that operates in the United Kingdom and Ireland, is about to launch an official ecommerce website. This will allow consumers to buy online from the company ever since it financially collapsed two years ago.

The American home shopping channel and website QVC will launch a dedicated ecommerce site in France in June, while airing will start in August. After the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, France will be QVC's fourth market in Europe.

Zalando's curated shopping service, which was previously called Project Z, is now rebranded as Zalon and will officially launch tomorrow. Consumers who visit Zalon.de can fill in some basic information and get help from stylists to get the clothes they are likely to keep and buy. At least, that's what Zalando hopes of course…

Amazon is launching a new marketplace: Amazon Business. Here, business shoppers can order a wide range of items and get their products delivered in two days for free if an order costs more than 45 euros. It's seems like a very logical step for Amazon, who says millions of business customers have purchased billions of dollars of goods on the regular Amazon.com website in the past year.

Zalando has opened the new Zalando Fashion Insights Centre in Dublin. With this first technology hub outside of Germany, the online fashion retailer is about to create 200 jobs during the next three years. The new base will focus on understanding the habits and patterns of online shoppers to create a personalized platform.

Poundworld, a popular single price store in the UK, has launched its online store. Most items can be bought for just 1 pound, but there are also items that sell for higher prices. It's an interesting move to see a bargain retailer operating online. It may open doors for others, like discount store-chain Action from the Netherlands.

Danish jewelry retailer Pandora has launched an ecommerce site for the US market. It's the first time the manufacturer and retailer has opened a dedicated ecommerce store for a market outside of Europe, where it already has seven country-specific online stores.

DHL has relaunched its Allyouneed service. Previously, it was an online supermarket, but this is now rebranded as Allyouneed Fresh. And MeinPaket.de has now become Allyouneed. Quite confusing right? Well, get used to it. The latter shopping portal will expand to other European markets. It rolled out already to Poland in March and more countries will follow.

Venstr is a new service in the United Kingdom that has been launched to help online retailers find reliable and trustworthy suppliers, thereby saving them time and money. The name Venstr comes from the ability to give vendors a star-rating.

The German grocery discounter Aldi is planning to launch an online store in the United Kingdom. If all goes as planned, it would be the first time Aldi is active on the ecommerce front in Europe. Aldi has been offering alcoholic drinks online in Australia since 2013, but the UK launch would be the first real online attempt in Europe.

Crowdfunding platform Symbid today announced the launch of the Funding Network. This is a platform that connects small- and medium-sized enterprises to all types of funding, whether they are traditional or alternative like crowdfunding.

Entrepreneur Peter Jones, who is a panelist on Dragons' Den and American Inventor, has combined several of his companies into one big international ecommerce venture. Brandpath is the new holding company for his firms Data Select, Expansys, DSNS and PJ Media. It's an end-to-end solution which handles every step of the customer journey.

H&M will sell online in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland. The Swedish fashion retailer is making a big ecommerce push as it already invested heavily in its online retail site and took several steps to connect its web and mobile assets with its brick-and-mortar stores.