Online retail sales have been growing steadily in recent years, reaching record highs in 2015. Shoppers spent a combined $4.33 billion on Thanksgiving Day and ...
E-commerce
Africa’s first billion-dollar company is an e-commerce network
With more than a billion people and some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, Africa is on its way to becoming the next China or India in terms of ...
Amazon is stepping up its game as it tries to take on PayPal
It's no secret that Amazon is trying to take on PayPal, but all it takes is one look at how Pay with Amazon's user numbers compare to PayPal's to see that the ...
Facebook’s e-commerce push might involve Apple Pay
Facebook may want WhatsApp to remain a regular messaging app, but Facebook Messenger is a whole other story. With Messenger, Facebook wants to emulate the ...
Alibaba wants to bring e-commerce to rural areas
Somewhere around 600 million people live in the Chinese countryside, and Alibaba has spent years trying to turn them into customers. The problem is, while ...
Mihaibao is helping Western companies reach Chinese consumers
Western companies have always found it difficult to tap into China's vast consumer base, but many of them keep trying because of how lucrative the Chinese ...
This e-commerce startup wants users to design their ideal products
What separates Massdrop from other e-commerce companies is that it runs on something the founders of the company call "community-driven commerce." The products ...
Is a cashless society closer than most realize?
In North America, it's easy to see that we're heading towards a world that is driven by digital commerce. Many people order a good chunk of their daily supplies ...
Facebook and Twitter’s e-commerce ventures aren’t very successful
Many social networks have been dipping their toes into the e-commerce market with Buy buttons in recent months, but if this year's holiday season is any ...
American tech companies are starting to emulate WeChat
William Bao Bean is one of the most prominent venture capitalists in China, one that specializes in spotting emerging trends and identifying startups with a lot ...
Amazon’s most-promising competitor has $350 million in new funding
Challenging an e-commerce behemoth like Amazon requires an immense amount of connections and resources, not to mention experience and strategy. Jet.com has ...
Bing just received a bunch of shopping features for the holidays
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft has added a plethora of new features to Bing that will improve the online shopping experience of its ...
Alibaba just earned $14.32 billion from sales in less than a day
For those of you who aren't familiar with Single's Day, it's a massive shopping festival that's the Chinese equivalent of Black Friday, and just like with Black ...
Less than 60% of China’s e-commerce products are actually genuine
Even though Chinese products have improved significantly over the years, the country still has a problem with counterfeit goods, especially on its e-commerce ...
Facebook wants to be the new Craigslist with Local Market
Facebook is really interested in e-commerce, and it's approaching the market from a number of different angles in order to find out what works. The company's ...