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Amazon unveils Amazon Coins, Google acquires Channel Intelligence, eCommerce industry news from Turkey, Poland and much more It is Sunday night (which became Monday Night) and if I look back at the past week then the stories from this week is the calm before the storm. The storm refers to the ongoing battles seen in […]
Business models, another Rocket Internet business get funding,Russia’s postal service to invest in better logistics and ecommerce in Africa. The week contained a whole lot of emails to customers to buy last minute items on their favorite ecommerce retailer websites. I have a few thoughts on this: One, sending me emails every day leads to […]
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 […]
Will Google Shopping Become a Marketplace? Google exceeds expected financial results, Amazon invests in a text to speech service and much more. The past week contained quarterly results for Google. Google exceeded the market expectations primarily due to its advertising business. Google’s results were very interesting as international revenue was 54% of Q4 revenue generated. […]
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 […]
Flipkart and Mynta to merge?, Google licenses Room 77 software, Alibaba will impact e-tailing in the US, Online Fashion: A Venture Scale Opportunity That Silicon Valley Does Not Understand, Amazon launches the Kindle FireTV & Amazon Dash, Homeshop18 to IPO , Amazon builds India business quietly, Fanatics announces Doug Mack as new CEO and much […]
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 […]
Having read George Taylor’s interesting article on “The battle over global commerce: Amazon vs Rakuten“, I feel a bit of perspective is needed. Amazon is a true giant that spans over many different business and Rakuten is the challenger trying to catch up. However, they are not the only commerce companies that want to be […]
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 […]
Google unveils Shopping express in San Francisco, Amazon acquires Goodreads, Walmart does Lockers as well and much more. It is April fools day which leads to a complete lack of trust in news today. Readers, my post today is what was news last week and no funny stuff. Last week was an interesting week and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yandex adds a clothing comparison shopping engine, More investment into Rocket’s fashion empire and more. The week that concluded on Friday was the last administrative day of September. Google Shopping is on the horizon and it seems that the comparison shopping industry is also full of news. Let me be clear, Google Shopping has the […]
Google vs Amazon, eBay changes their logo, Google goes ecommerce local in China and Alibaba claims that they are the world’s biggest ecommerce business in terms of value of sold items. Phew, what a mouthful. The week has sped by but the above is only a smidgen of ecommerce news. Let me say this once, […]
Square gets a cup of coffee from Starbucks, Maelle Gavet from Ozon.ru, Multiply pivots to ecommerce, ShopGo enables ecommerce in the Middle East and mobile commerce is the week in a few words. The summary of the 10 e-commerce stories for the past week highlights just how global ecommerce is. Let me start by saying […]
High expectations for eBay to prove tech prowess, Amazon Launches New Twist on Product Reviews, Pickie Acquired By Digital Coupon Giant RetailMeNot, Snapdeal Buys Product Discovery Portal Doozton, Why Alibaba Is a Big Deal, Zalora launches fashion marketplace in 3 countries, Czech e-commerce giant says Google ‘concessions’ would worsen conditions on local market, Alibaba to […]
Alibaba smashes records on Singles day, the most fraudulent ecommerce countries, Amazon partners USPS, a conversation with Sina Afra and much more Folks, I am aware that I am a bit late but I wanted to wait until the end of this day to post anything. Why? Simple today is Singles day in China which […]
Pinterest shows it’s ecommerce aspirations, Amazon does an experiment with Collections, Insights into rural China ecommerce and much more. The week that ended on Friday can just as well be called the “week of competitors”. Across the ecommerce landscape competitors had Mexican stand offs with one another. The eBooks saga with Apple has taken a […]
The week contained stories in which ecommerce companies are looking for future business success (Rakuten) and a look into the success of PayPal prior to their acquisition by eBay. Rakuten seems to be going more horizontal and after a serious streak of acquisitions they seem to be looking at something akin to what Google is […]
A few weeks ago I had the privilege to attend GGV Capital’s Evolving E 16 Summit in San Francisco. I suspect that in the years ahead this event will become a must attend for anyone in commerce on the West Coast or for that matter the US. Background I came across GGV Capital 3 years […]