Cha-choke? Underperforming online merchants leave $168 billion annually on the table because they can’t close the deal with their shoppers. And big retailers, despite their seeming advantage, fare no better than their smaller counterparts. The latest Checkout Conversion Index reports the latest findings for the...
Cha-choke? Underperforming online merchants leave $168 billion annually on the table because they can’t close the deal with their shoppers. And big retailers, despite their seeming advantage, fare no better than their smaller counterparts. The latest Checkout Conversion Index reports the latest findings for the...
Alibaba has made another major Commerce investment — this time aimed at improving eCommerce search for products. The Chinese Internet giant has thrown its support behind Twiggle, an Israeli technology company, which recently raised $20 million. This funding round was led by Naspers, a South African conglomerate,...
Indian multinational conglomerate Tata Group is jumping on the eCommerce bandwagon with the launch of Tata CLiQ, an apparel and electronics shopping website. The website, which Tata says took over a year and half to build and costed several hundred million dollars, will sell in-house...
Apparently, Paytm feels pretty good about its five-year plan. Or, at least, the owner of the India-based online payments processor, One97 Communications (which itself is owned by Alibaba), does, having recently told Bloomberg that it currently controls enough funds to last five years, a timeframe...
There is little worse in life than being sick — and most of the things that are worse usually involve being sick and doing something else. Being sick and going to work, being sick and driving someplace far, being sick and waiting in line. And...
It seems that after a rocky first six months as a publicly traded company, Jack Dorsey may be bracing for more rough seas as he looks to replace board members. Not even a year after joining the board at Square, Magic Johnson has announced that...
Payment processing firm Vantiv said on Monday (May 16) that it has been named as a finalist across three categories in the 2016 Card Not Present Awards. The firm is up for awards in the following categories: Best Processor, Best Payment Service Provider and Best...
It appears that a big player in the eCommerce space is looking to talk back to Alexa with a voice-activated assistant of its own. Recode reports that a team at Google is developing a hardware device similar to the Amazon Echo. Sources have told the outlet...
