Tag: e-commerce
Why Amazon paid for 2,000 employees to take classes in things...
Rarely do you see the CEO of a $180 billion company care much about its warehouse workers.
Since 2012, Amazon has offered a program called...
Alignable Is A Social Network For Local Business Owners
With all the handwringing about the future of local business, a startup called Alignable aims to connect those businesses and help them work together....
Jeff Bezos And Mark Zuckerberg Are Racing To Dominate The Mobile...
Facebook is looking at getting into the payments and remittances business, and so is Amazon. Amazon is also reportedly developing its own phone. The race to dominate mobile payments remains the...
Facebook Is No. 1 for Social Commerce
Facebook claims nearly all orders from social media—85%—according to research. However, it doesn’t rule when it comes to average order value, landing in fourth...
5 Brilliant Strategies Jeff Bezos Used To Build The Amazon Empire
The Gazelle Project. That's what Amazon called its initiative to cajole book publishers into giving them better deals. According to The New Yorker, CEO Jeff Bezos said...
Square Is Giving Some Businesses Thousands Of Dollars
Mobile payments company Square is testing out a new initiative where it will give select merchants thousands of dollars to help them grow, according to...
Social Commerce Site Tapiture Raises $2.25M In Seed Funding
Tapiture, a site where users can share content and buy related products, is announcing that it has raised $2.25 million in seed funding.
That amount...
Twitter Is Hiring Commerce Specialists
Twitter has not responded to reports, from others and from us, that it is building a marketplace-style platform where users can buy things, but the social network...
Twitter Is Working On A Deal With Stripe That Could Potentially...
Twitter and Stripe are in the final stages of a deal that would allow users to purchase products directly on the social network using...
Top 10 UK buzz brands of 2013
According to YouGov's BrandIndex here are the top 10 UK brands of 2013.
This is based on brand perception, acquired by conducting approximately 3,700 daily interviews and...
US Consumer Electronics Industry Revenues to Hit an All-Time High of...
The US consumer electronics industry revenues will rise 2,4 this year to hit an all-time high of 208 billion, according to recent figures. New,...
Affluent Digital Buyers Lead the Way in Colombia
Affluent consumers in the 5/6 socioeconomic levels are by far the most likely to buy digitally in Colombia (85%). When broken down by age,...
2014 predictions from the New York tech community
2013 turned out to be a monumental year for ecommerce.
Twitter, Rocket Fuel and Criteo IPOed. Online sales closed at record highs, with more and...
Online Holiday Sales Climb, Get Mobile Boost
Digital commerce—and especially mobile—has been a bright spot for retailers this holiday season, even after brick-and-mortar sales during the Black Friday weekend came in...
Apparel Shoppers Grab Their Tablets
As tablet adoption widens, retailers and brands across an expanding spectrum of product categories, including apparel, are beginning to pay closer attention to the...
Amazon Has Bought Square Competitor GoPago
Looks like Amazon has acquired mobile payments startup GoPago for an undisclosed sum, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
Vincenzo Di Nicola, Italian native...
Norway’s Ecommerce Sales Gain Speed as Holidays Approach
Third-quarter ecommerce revenues in Norway approached $3.5 billion, according to research, as more customers and retailers took to digital channels. And December’s retail ecommerce...
Cyber Monday Makes Inroads in the UK
Cyber Monday is still a relatively new phenomenon in the UK, but research shows that is growing in popularity as a day for sales....
Tablets Are Becoming More Important Than Smartphones For Online Shopping, But...
This year will mark a major milestone for tablets and their influence on Internet retailers. We believe tablets will draw even with smartphones, and account...
Amazon Experimenting With Drones That Will Deliver Packages In 30 Minutes...
Amazon is experimenting with drones that will deliver packages within 30 minutes. CEO Jeff Bezos made the announcement in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night...
