Weebly Launches E-Commerce Tools To Lure Entrepreneurs From Amazon

It's been said that under half the businesses in the United States don't have a presence on the web beyond a quick listing by . Part of the reason is that website hosting can be expensive and complicated. Website builder Weebly, which says it hosts blogs and websites for 20 million people, wants to tackle the problem by appealing to part-time entrepreneurs who'd like an online store, but can't afford the real estate. It's spent the last two years building an e-commerce platform that makes it simple enough to create a free e-commerce site entirely on a smartphone, and in a few minutes.