True Fit, a startup that guides online apparel shoppers by finding out what’s already in their closets, has passed 5 million users and raised $15 million, according to TechCrunch. The Massachusetts-based startup uses an apparel database sourced from 1,500 brands and retailers to calculate fit,...
With the clock ticking down toward the October 2015 deadline for retailers to accept EMV chip payment cards, First Data said it will offer its customers EMV testing tools that have been certified by Visa and MasterCard. The payments processing giant has struck a deal...
China continues to send mixed signals to foreign-owned companies who want to do business in the world’s largest consumer market. On Tuesday (Jan. 13) China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that it will now allow wholly-foreign-owned companies to operate in the Shanghai Free Trade...
There’s no doubt that the face of retail is changing. And this week in New York, retailers and the marketers and technologists that work with them are together trying to figure out how to get ahead of that change and turn it into an advantage....
In 2014, the standard understanding of a luxury shopper is out the window thanks to the growing number of wealthy millennials. Once defined as the “man or woman who owned a lavish penthouse condo” with a healthy investment portfolio, The Washington Post took a look...
Small-business point-of-sale products can come from unexpected places — but from a Human Resources conglomerate based in Japan? That’s the improbably source for a rapidly growing POS product, according to Tech in Asia. The $2 billion conglomerate is Recruit, a privately held Tokyo-based company whose...
Apple’s much-anticipated wearable may have plenty of health-monitoring features, but mobile marketers know what the Apple Watch is really good at: putting digital ads on potential customers’ wrists, according to The Wall Street Journal. Mobile ad network TapSense has already announced its own ad platform...
This is every retailer’s dream. Cozied up by the fireplace with a cup of coffee, Sarah reaches across the table — over the iPad, past the smartphone and far away from her computer — and grabs for something heavier, more colorful and something that takes...
Uh oh. And just when we thought we were going to get such good news about retail spending, the data has to come out to rain on our parade. Yes, thanks to the holiday season and consumers feeling a little more bullish about the economy...
