Aug 19, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing, Social media
Facebook is testing a new online payments service aimed at making it easier for users to make purchases on their mobile devices. The social networking site will let people to make purchases with just their Facebook login on partnering e-commerce mobile apps. The...
Aug 19, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Germany, Online video, Social media
The 57.8 million internet users in Germany each spent nearly 20 hours online during June 2013. Social networking accounted for a quarter of time spent online in Germany, making it the most engaging activity that month. Retail sites reached 77 percent of the German...
Aug 19, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing
Facebook is testing a new online payments service aimed at making it easier for users to make purchases on their mobile devices. The social networking site will let people to make purchases with just their Facebook login on partnering e-commerce mobile apps. The...
Aug 14, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
ZTE is to sell its new Firefox smartphone on eBay only in the UK and the US markets. The £59.99 handset, the first to run the Firefox mobile operating system, will be available exclusively on eBay. The ZTE Open runs applications written in the web-based HTML5 language...
Aug 13, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Smartphones and tablets now account for 51% of consumer time spent shopping online, beating PCs for the first time, according to new mobile commerce research in the US. The study, by Millennial Media and comScore, also indicates that most mobile shoppers in the US are...
Aug 13, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
eBay is working with Dressipi to trial a personalised recommendation service for fashion shoppers in the UK. The six month trial will see Dressipi’s unique personalisation technology integrated with eBay’s Fashion Gallery, giving eBay shoppers instant access to retail...
Aug 12, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Google is letting students borrow academic textbooks on their smartphones for 80% less than their print prices, as the internet giant takes on Apple in the lucrative digital education market. The update to the Google Play app, which comes ahead of the new academic...
Aug 6, 2013 | Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Brazil, China, E-commerce and E-retailing, France, Germany, India, Latin America, Russia, UK, USA
This chart shows the percentage of each country’s internet population who have bought something online. 40.4% of the worldwide internet population will make a purchase through a digital channel this year. Western Europe’s online population is very engaged...
Aug 6, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
This chart shows ecommerce sales by region for 2013. The worldwide total spent online for 2013 is expected to exceed $1,221bn. Regions such as North America, Asia Pacific and Western Europe, where ecommerce is more mature, are growing their sales. View high quality...
Aug 6, 2013 | Content marketing, E-commerce and E-retailing
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, has personally bought The Washington Post and other newspapers for $250m (£163m). Watch this video report from Bloomberg here: The company, which owns the Kaplan education business and several TV stations, will change its name. Bezos is...
Aug 5, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, France
Retail sites reached 84.5% of the online audience in France, making it the third biggest market in Europe in June 2013, after Germany and Russia, according to new research from comScore, looking at the top 10 French online retail sites of 2013. As the second sales...
Jul 31, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Search engine marketing
Google has closed down more of its under-performing services, dropping its stand-alone Google Shopper app as its looks to push its multi-function search app instead. The Google Shopper app will close on August 30th as the firm moves users to shop online using the...
Jul 25, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, Search engine marketing
Total retail search volumes grew 15% in the second quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. Search volumes on tablet devices outpaced those on any other device, increasing 132% compared with growth on smartphone devices of 66%, according to new...
Jul 24, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Amazon has imposed a £10 minimum spend for shoppers wanting to use ‘Free Super Saver Delivery’ across many of its product categories. The change, effective from today, means shoppers need to pay for postage or subscribe to Amazon Prime for order deliveries under £10....
Jul 23, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Apple has reached a major milestone for its podcast services, gaining 1 billion subscriptions to its radio-style audio service since it launched back in 2005. The Apple Podcasts service lets people and companies broadcast episodic audio shows, with thousands available...
Jul 19, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
For a moment this week, a US man became the world’s richest person – with a wealth one thousand times greater than the GDP of the whole planet, after PayPal mistakenly credited him with $92 quadrillion (£60 quadrillion). The online money-transfer firm...
Jul 17, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Online retail sales grew by 20% year-on-year in June– the highest recorded growth in two years – adding to other recent evidence of economic recovery in the UK, according to a new report. The figures, from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, further found monthly...
Jul 16, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, USA
Women are now catching men in terms of mobile shopping in the US, while people with lower disposable incomes have shown the highest increase in the past year, according to new research. Technology is catching up with our on-the-go lifestyles, empowering millions of...
Jul 16, 2013 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Social media, Twitter marketing
Danone has picked Coupons.com to run a product sampling campaign via Facebook, as the firm looks to promote the new range of super thick yogurts, danio. In the first social media campaign of its kind for the brand, and following the success of the June #makemybreak...
Jul 12, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
In the online travel sector, customer service and fast responses to consumer enquiries across multiple channels are vital if travel companies are going to thrive. However research carried out as part of the Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience Study indicates that...
