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Jack Ma to retire, Hybris to IPO? and ecommerce in South Africa The past week has been an interesting one. IPO’s seems to be a topic of note in 2013 and Alibaba is seemingly getting their house in order to go public in the next 18 months. Ma is retiring in May 2013 from being […]
It is clear to me now that in hindsight the partnership between Farfetch and JD.com is beneficial to both parties for different reasons. As Farfetch is on the road to go public they will face increasing skepticism about their growth versus Yoox-Net-A-Porter. JD.com is increasingly to position itself as the premium destination for luxury brands […]
Jingdong to enter the US?, Alibaba invests into ShopRunner, Bad news for LivingSocial (was there any good news about LivingSocial?) and more Ladies and Gentleman, may I be the first person to put it on record that the Superpowers (Tencent, Jingdong and Alibaba) of the East are beginning to move to other markets (Europe, US […]
eBay acquires Shutl and is subject to an investigation, same old Amazon seen in quarterly results, Fab redesigns and much more. It was a bumper news week for the ecommerce industry. Amazon announced a second quarter in which they made a loss but their stock price increased. I have been thinking about Amazon.com in some […]
Fab Continues With Layoffs, Russia is not China regarding ecommerce, the Kindle Arrives In Australia, Zulily goes public and much more So Zulily is now a public company. First of the flash sales businesses to become a public company and worryingly is very thin on revenue. The problem I have with this whole situation is […]
Ma announces his successor at Alibaba, eBay says paid search has no effects, Google make plenty of changes and more. Middle of March is normally the start of news that relates to end of quarter information. SEC filings, quarterly results and lots of press coverage is the norm. The point is we are almost done […]
Apple appoints a new commerce chief, Google becomes a $1000 stock, eBay hires a CPO from Apple and Alibaba is no Amazon.. Apple is a brand trying to regain its vibrancy after the passing of their inspiration and leader Steve Jobs. However, one of the things Jobs did that gets lost in all the iDevices […]
Assessing Zimbabwe’s readiness for eCommerce, Google launches a vehicle insurance comparison service, The battle in China between Tencent and Alibaba is on and much more. It is Wednesday and if I look back in the last week on my twitterfeed, RSS reader (yes – it is not dead) and by all the email I read […]
Amazon Coins come to UK & Germany, Magento becomes part of eBay enterprise, Microsoft closes Bing Shopping , eBay has not given up on China and much more eBay has finally done what everyone expected when they acquired Magento. They have made it part of eBay enterprise which is the old GSI Commerce. Magento for […]
It is the time of year when summaries are written about what happened during the year past. 2015 was a fascinating year full of intrigue. I cant remember any year in which fluctuations occurred in a specific market. To summarise ecommerce in a few thoughts is very difficult as the industry is large but through […]
Amazon acquires GoPago, MTN enters the commerce race, eBay wants to help retailers, Social Network Odnoklassniki Shuts Down E-commerce Marketplace, Alibaba to enter Brazil and much more It is the second last week of 2013 and on reflection it has been a massive year for ecommerce. Amazon continued to show the lead for all ecommerce […]
It is the beginning of 2015. I believe that 2014 contained some clues to the new year and the future of ecommerce. There were some stories that made us all go wow – (The Alibaba IPO) and also some interesting developments across the globe. Global ecommerce is a topic that interests me and it is […]
Every year at this time I write a summary of the ecommerce year that has gone by. I can summarise the 9 thoughts in one word – unexpected. Globally the year saw a lot of unexpected mergers and acquisitions, new developments and businesses selling for way below their valuations. The 9 thoughts in no particular […]
Ozon raises $150M capital, Rakuten to enter India?, Google acquires Rangespan, Amazon working on a computer chips, Mobile users contribute 50% of Snapdeal’s sales, Rakuten Taiwan and Google join forces in e-commerce market, Looks Like Groupon Wants to Take on Costco (And Amazon Pantry, Too) and much more.. Rakuten is talking about entering the Indian […]
Thoughts on ecommerce scaling from a VC, Flipkart to allow advertising ala Amazon, Amazon to add advertising into mobile search results, Souq raises $75M, a United eBay, Birchbox to open physical store, The death of flash sales and much more Revenue generation for ecommerce businesses is currently a hot topic as business models are being […]
Readers, since my last post a lot of things have happened. It clearly is the last 6 months of the year as news keeps breaking, Amazon launches new product after new product, Alibaba is still to IPO etc. Over the last 2 weeks, 2 companies have been on my mind: Rocket Internet and Wayfair. Both […]
Flipkart shelves plans for IPO, eBay has 6 hour downtime, Why Tencent invested in Fab.com, market intelligence / stats for Latin America, China, Japan and South East Asia. We have entered the last quarter of 2013 ( where did the year go?) and certain story lines have begun to develop. Chinese ecommerce is now in […]
Amazon earnings, Google retires it is mobile shopping apps, Bigcommerce raises capital, eBay takes Now to the desktop and much more. The week that finished was full of ecommerce news. Needless to say it was dominated by Amazon’s earnings which missed. I am not too surprised as Bezos has been investor mode since early January. […]
The last 2 weeks has been full of news, so much has happened globally that is takes a while to make sense of all of the news. In terms of the importance of news – I am going to highlight a few stories that has big implications for the next 12 months. The second biggest […]
I have a confession to make. After I started my current job, I started to look for the important people in eCommerce to follow. You know the type, the individuals who play an important role in shaping the market/ environment thorough their expertise. When they speak at conferences or are featured in magazine articles the […]