Consumers aren’t just using their mobile devices to browse; they are also making purchases at a higher rate, according to NetElixir. According to a report, citing data from search marketing firm NetElixir, the conversion rate from mobile devices during the holiday season increased to 1.45 percent...
Holiday shopping may have gotten off to a slow start with uncertainty surroundings the U.S. election and concerns over the surprise Trump victory, but that seems to have changed, at least for online retailers, with the growth rate for eCommerce sites during the holiday season surpassing...
New data collected in a survey by online and mobile publishing and advertising company Opera Mediaworks back in September reveals interesting trends among mobile users as they shop in-store. Here are some of the key findings. Perhaps the most striking result is that 47 percent...
Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia, with its population of over 620 million, is predicted to be the next site of an eCommerce boom. The region’s internet economy is projected to become a $278 billion market by 2025, with immense growth expected in all...
A chatbot is on the horizon for regular users of the Starbucks mobile app. Called My Starbucks Barista, the new technology’s announcement came out during an event for investors where current and future CEOs of the firm, Howard Schultz and Kevin Johnson, outlined the company’s...
Last month Wish, the company behind the popular shopping website and eCommerce app of the same name, was found to be raising an additional $500 million in a new round of funding. Currently, Wish does $2 billion in sales and gets a 12 to 15 percent...
The holiday shopping season has finally kicked into high gear — in online stores and brick-and-mortar alike. Recent data from Google show that, though customer foot traffic may be on a downward trend the rest of the year, Black Friday brings them back into stores...
Amazon continues to bank on the popularity of eSports. The online retail giant recently announced that it will hold its first-ever eSports tournament. Sixteen of the gaming industry’s top players will be brought in to compete head-to-head in five games in the casual gaming category...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — as anyone who has been in a store during the last few weeks can attest. But what will Christmas look like? That is the $64,000 question this year, and while most sources are expecting it to...