Apple’s strategy is aimed at strengthening bonds with local Chinese suppliers and government bodies. Despite facing strong headwinds from China’s business practices, Apple is pushing to make headway with its CEO visiting the country frequently in recent times. With Apple Inc pushing to make headway in China, the world’s second largest economy, it boosted its…
Emerging from bankruptcy protection, the firm is pushing to reinvent its brick-and-mortar stores as well as rejig its website to take on more e-commerce. Specialty retailer Toys “R” Us Inc stated it will be closing one-fifth of its stores in the U.S. in the coming months as it struggles to emerge from one of its…
GM’s interest in fully automated autonomous cars comes from the fact that “several hundred thousands of dollars” can be generated in revenue from the lifetime of one in comparison to an average $30,000 for one of its traditional vehicles. Executives from General Motors Co disclosed that the automaker is seeking approval from the U.S. government…
A car’s dashboard is now becoming the new marketplace and will compete with your smartphone, tablet and laptop for your taps and clicks. On Tuesday, General Motors stated it will equip its newer cars with e-commerce technology built-in to its dashboard. As a result, drivers of its future product line will have the ability to…
With the emerging e-commerce boom tapping only a fraction of retail brick and mortar sales, the vast potential for e-commerce has made Southeast Asia a battle ground for the world’s top online sellers, who are rapidly expanding their footprint in order to corner more marketshare. In a movie that marks the expansion of partnership between…
In 2018, it will capitalize on this further by enabling voice Google powered shopping across its 4,700 brick and mortar stores. In a development that marks the opening of a second front on Wal-Mart Stores assault on Amazon.com Inc, the company is teaming up with Google to enter the nascent voice-shopping market that is at…
Spark is being seen as a cross between Pinterest and Instagram with a bent for e-commerce. In a significant development, Amazon.com has forayed into the social media with the launch of Spark, a platform currently available only to Prime members, wherein they can upload photos and videos much like other popular social media platforms, including…
The company’s card aggregates all your cards and allows you to switch cards after a transaction has been completed. In what is a world first, a London-based startup has teamed up with Mastercard Inc to launch a payment card that allows users to retrospectively choose a different credit or debit card for a purchase they…
The move comes midst Twitter’s withdrawal from the e-commerce market while it looks to focus on its core products. Google has purchased Twitter’s developer platform which is known as Fabric. Acquired by Twitter in 2014, Fabric is a “a modular mobile platform” that is designed to aid programmers to improve the “stability, distribution, revenue and…
For the first time, shoppers took to their smartphones to snag exclusively deals from retailers such as, Amazon, Walmart and Target. If you shopped on your smartphone during this holiday shopping season, it turns out, you are one among those trend setter who have increasingly adopted their smartphones for their shopping spree. According to Adobe,…
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