Retail Software Maker LightSpeed POS Acquires SEOshop For E-Commerce Push

LightSpeed POS is announcing that it has acquired SEOshop, an Amsterdam-based maker of e-commerce software. As the name implies, LightSpeed’s offerings for brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants include a point-of-sale system, as well as inventory management, a customer database and more. It also offers tools for creating a web store, but founder and CEO Dax Dasilva said the acquisition will allow his company to expand significantly on that front. For starters, the SEOshop product is being rebranded as LightSpeed eCom, and there are plans to launch fuller integration with LightSpeed’s platform early next year. Read More

Anthony Ha, TechCrunch, 19 Nov 2015