In this second article in PYMNTS industrial metaverse series about the fledgling use of private enterprise virtual realities, we’ll look at how companies are building “digital twins” up and down their supply chains to create a complete, real-time picture of what’s happening in their business...
Tencent Holdings Ltd., the Chinese technology company, has launched tools to assist merchants with building virtual stores on its WeChat messaging service, CNBC reported. The move could set up head-to-head competition with the country’s biggest online shopping platforms, Alibaba and JD.com, the network reported. Dubbed WeChat Minishop, the offering will allow...
If you can’t get shoppers to go to High Street, bring High Street to them. In fact, let them create their own High Street. That’s the general business model behind Streetify, a unique eCommerce concept that launched last week in the U.K. Streetify provides virtual...
Walmart may be America’s biggest retailer and jockeying for a position as one of its biggest grocers, too — but millennials aren’t buying it. Why not? The big box retailer has ramped up its efforts to reach this generation — to little avail, so far. A...
July 16, 2020
Tencent Holdings Ltd., the Chinese technology company, has launched tools to assist merchants with building virtual stores on its WeChat messaging service, CNBC reported. The move could set up head-to-head competition with the country’s biggest online shopping platforms, Alibaba and JD.com, the network reported. Dubbed WeChat Minishop, the offering will allow merchants to create an eCommerce mini-program inside WeChat using Tencent’s […]
