Digital River (News - Alert) Inc and SanDisk Corporation announced today that they’ve entered into a partnership for Global E-Commerce trade.

 

Starting this spring, Digital River said, the companies will build, host and manage e-commerce stores to support the online sale of SanDisk’s (News - Alert) line of flash memory data storage products in the United States and Canada. Services to rest of the countries will be added later, the companies said.

 

Digital River, Inc is a provider of global e-commerce solutions, builds and manages online businesses for software publishers, consumer technology manufacturers, distributors, online retailers and affiliates. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.

 

SanDisk Corporation is the inventor and supplier of flash storage cards, for research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution.

 

SanDisk is the only company that has the rights to both manufacture and sell every major flash card format, including CompactFlash, SD, miniSD, microSD, MultiMediaCard, Reduced Size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC), Memory Stick PRO and related Memory Stick products, xD-Picture Card and USB flash drives.

 

Digital River Global commerce platform is designed to handle all the complications and chances involved in selling both digital and physical products across the global Internet. This gives Software developers and hardware manufacturers a complete online buying experience from site development and customer acquisition to back office operations, including transaction processing, export controls, tax management and product delivery, the companies said.

 

“We are pleased to be working with SanDisk to further extend its reach into online markets around the world,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s chief executive officer. “Drawing upon our deep domain expertise in e-commerce and our global footprint, we can offer consumer electronics manufacturers a complete solution for building an effective online presence. We can help them take advantage of opportunities in a growing market where consumer buying habits and preferences are heavily influenced by the power of the Internet.”

 

Marc Metis, vice president of corporate marketing for SanDisk, said, “This agreement expands our e-commerce presence on a global level. By enabling consumers worldwide to buy at SanDisk.com, we are providing them with a great new place to purchase SanDisk products. We are looking to Digital River to enable us to provide an outstanding e-commerce experience for our online site visitors”.