For a company the size of Uber, it can be tough to know when it’s time to keep the foot on the gas pedal of growth and when it makes sense to ease off the accelerator and focus on perfecting what they have. When it...
Sprig, the mobile app that allows customers to find and order “delicious meals” made with “honest ingredients” that can be delivered to their doorstep quickly, is changing up its delivery model and pausing operations in Chicago, according to TechCrunch. As part of this reorganization, Sprig...
Shopping with the help of a bot is old news at this point. Everybody has a bot. But Facebook Messenger bot Kip is daring to be different. It doesn’t think shopping bots are the future alone — they think that shopping by bots aided by...
Over the last few years, there’s been a marked rise of tourist-friendly bicycles and Segways that make getting around foreign cities as easy as having your own taxi. The businesses behind these endeavors have, at times, struggled to keep their property secure, but no longer....
While a recent study reveals smartphones may have accounted for more eCommerce traffic than computers in Q1 2016, as reported by Bloomberg, mobile-checkout completion was lower than all other devices. And it may be due to cumbersome payment requirements and drawn out checkout times.
If one wanted a quick, three-word explanation for why social commerce or social media-based contextual commerce is actually much, much harder to do than it sounds, 2016 has managed to offer one: Twitter buy buttons. Although it was released with a lot of hype last...
We all know that consumers are using their mobile phones to shop and search for items more than ever before (and it’s a market that is only poised to grow in the future). But do we know what exactly they are searching for when they...
The amount of press coverage Pokémon GO has attracted over the last few weeks has been groundbreaking in and of itself. However, Apple is ready to show stats that prove Pokémon GO has set more records than that. According to TechCrunch, Apple has confirmed that Pokémon GO has...
There’s a reason Uber has managed to define the ridesharing market, and it’s not without cause that its ever-evolving business model has eminent appeal overseas. However, that doesn’t mean Kalanick and friends have the run of the place, especially as far as Southeast Asia’s Grab...
