ALBANY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading ecommerce provider CommerceHub today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Seattle-based Mercent, a retail technology company. The deal is expected to be finalized in January 2015, subject to customary closing conditions. CommerceHub’s virtual-inventory platform integrates North America’s largest retailers with a vast network of over 8,500 drop-ship suppliers. In the prior 12 months, the company enabled more than $8 billion in annual gross m