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Earlier this week Crate and Barrel announced that they have added a marketplace to their business. Home furnishings retailer Crate and Barrel today announced the launch of its new “Crate and Barrel Exclusive Marketplace”, a highly curated marketplace offering consumers a broader selection of products based on Crate and Barrel’s merchandising expertise. Available via the […]
The first week of July is in the record books. This year has steadily been gaining speed and everyone has started with Q4 planning. It is pretty clear to me that in South Africa ecommerce is starting to become more acceptable. I know that sounds weird but I still feel retailers see ecommerce as a […]
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 […]
As 2016 moves into full speed I wanted to recap on a trend I have been seeing. No – it is not mobile commerce (as that is now a requirement) but rather contextual commerce. 2015 is the year in which mobile assisted ecommerce drove a significant amount of sales away from brick and mortar retail. […]
Noon.com is going to battle to grow market share in the Middle East ecommerce market. Amazon purchasing Souq.com might be one of their more prudent acquisitions and have huge long term upside for Amazon and Middle East customers. Noon.com is yet to launch and seemingly are going to struggle to catch up to Souq.com. Troubles […]
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 […]
Over the last 18 months, this is one of the questions I keep hearing. “Who are the best marketplace investors?” I have been trying to answer for the previous three years. Various conversations both on and off the record – tells me that many are trying to get a clearer answer. Investment in anything – […]
The long awaited Alibaba IPO has come and gone. The Chinese behemoth went public amid a huge amount of PR and celebration. Needless to say – I believe that it is a line in the sand moment. We will most probably look back at the past week in years to come as a watershed moment […]
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 […]
Fab.com has been on my mind the last few weeks as I wanted to have an indepth look at the company after I wrote about the refocus in May 2013. I don’t know whether I got bitten by all the hype but the fab.com story is beginning to feel like never ending story. At the […]
Amazon invests $13 Billion into warehouses, Bing sunset Bing Shopping, VANCL raises its 7th round of funding and much more. The last week made me realise something (nothing profound) and that is that ecommerce is now global. It is done primarily via 2 models – either take a recognizable name and open businesses across the […]
Google Shopping taking market share from Amazon, Amazon posts results and Andreessen predicts the death of retail. The second month of the year has started and last week was dominated by Amazon’s results. Amazon posted results that lead to a stock price increase. I think anybody that keeps an eye on ecommerce in North America […]
When I wrote my first post on Amazon in which I looked at the competitors it will face; back 2012, I had 7 major ecommerce businesses that could destabilize Amazon’s domination in ecommerce: Amazon is and still is it’s own biggest concern Apple Alibaba eBay Walmart Rakuten Regional players (Netretail, Ozon, MercadoLibre) Fast forward 2 […]
Alibaba invests in Haier, Jack Ma named FT’s person of the year, Zalando getting their house in order for an IPO, Amazon to launch “Pantry”, Jason Goldberg tries to provide context on Fab’s problems and much more Phew what a week, having a look at the highlights – it is becoming more difficult to pick […]
I have been ill and thus am still catching up on reading all the stories that have happened in the ecommerce industry over the last week. There are 2 major stories that has my attention at the moment – Amazon is currently in tough negotiations with Hachette and Warner Brothers. Secondly, Alibaba has updated their […]
Google shutters commerce search and wants do retail, eBay not keen on the new The Marketplace Fairness Act and ecommerce news from Africa, France and Russia We have gone past the middle of February and this past week was a historic one. It flew below the radar but Amazon this week got the wheels moving […]
The week is in the history books and it contained news that will have significant impact on ecommerce over the next 12 – 18 months. Google is to increase their investment into same day delivery to the rumored amount of $500 million. Commerce is one of the few online industries in which Google is not […]
The week was one that featured a major story from Amazon and the realities and impact surrounding Alibaba became real. That is the summary of the past week. The Fire phone release was not unexpected but Amazon did cause some head scratching with costs of the device. I am writing a larger post of the […]
Amazon has gone up a few gears and are moving at a speed I have not seen before. First they subtly tell the world that they are working on an advertising product to rival Google’s advertising monopoly and then the Seattle-based behemoth acquires Twitch. Currently it feels like Bezos is asking questions to the Google […]
The week for ecommerce was a quiet one in terms of news but some news stories are going to be driving the ecommerce landscape in the next 18 months. The one company not involved with the Alibaba IPO, Alipay struck a deal with Stripe, the new hot payments startup. Alipay is the company that is […]