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I have written about the laws of unintended consequences, perception and bias, and the narrative previously. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, “narrative”: a story or a description of a series of events. a particular way of explaining or understanding events. A story has three sides – your version, my version, and the narrated version. […]
The future of ecommerce, Flipkart to be Largely an M-Commerce Company, Tiger Global snaps up Alibaba shares at a giant valuation, Argentina and Russia restricts ecommerce and much more. The past week has contained stories that has me shaking my head in disbelief (Argentina and Russia restricting ecommerce) and thinking about the future of ecommerce. […]
We are a week or 10 days away from the Alibaba IPO. Alibaba’s IPO is currently driving the ecommerce industry as companies ensure that they are best prepared after Alibaba raises billions. One company clearly working hard to combat Alibaba’s potential impact is Rakuten. Rakuten has been acquiring US based businesses which they will add […]
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 […]
Trouble at The Iconic, Square enters the marketplace space, Amazon wants be a digital art dealer and Fab raising money Fab.com has been in my thoughts the last 2 weeks. Are they growing too fast? Do they play the PR game and what is their future? Those 3 questions have been circling in my thoughts […]
The week that has passed contained previews of the future. Facebook and Walmart are to strengthen their relationship and Amazon will be starting to face user revolt over sales tax collection. Amazon will be doing the right thing with regards to taxing but how it affects their bottom-line is another story. It is pretty clear […]
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 […]
A Samwer leaves the mother ship to lead a new battleground, BigCommerce & Rubybox raises funding, Amazon and eBay users in Argentina hit with additional taxes. The week past in ecommerce can be summarized as being focused on the future. Let me say firstly that Amazon put everyone on notice last night with their range […]
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 […]
I have been thinking about Jet.com ever since returning from my 3 week US trip. Clearly they are a top of the hype list before any sale of merchandise has occurred. Marc Lore is an operator with a very successful past and someone that is clearly deeply in touch with ecommerce. Is jet.com a dot.com […]
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 […]
Fab wants to become like IKEA, Rocket Internet helps the Brazil ecosystem, eBay offers more logistical opportunities for retailers and are considering investing into Snapdeal The first calendar week of 2013 is in the record books. In South Africa, I reckon we will see more online shops re-opening and starting to process orders that was […]
History will show us that 2020 was a year in which consumer behavior, commerce, and trade changed. Businesses of all sizes faced challenges at a scale not seen prior the World War 2. What does 2021 have in store? If 2020 is a yardstick, 2021 will continue to speed up e-commerce adoption worldwide. If you […]
The Marketplace concept is one that both intrigues me but it also scares the living daylights out of me. Call it an oxymoron but its greatest strength could be it biggest challenge. Let me explain. So yesterday when Best Buy announced that is adding a marketplace to its offering.. The first problem that this creates […]
Cobone acquired by Tiger Global Management, Google selling cars?, Hybris raises money and much more I missed writing last week’s summary and boy this week has been full of news. Google is rumored to be building a Amazon Prime competitor. I find this interesting, how does it fit into the commerce value chain at Google? […]
The past week was one dominated by earnings. Amazon disappointed but showed signs of where their growth is coming from. One thing that seems to have gone missing this week in all the Amazon doom and gloom is that they have a long term strategy. So they had a bad quarter.. yes, there are others […]
India is at the moment one of the most written about ecommerce markets. The size of the country is contributing to the rapid development and investment into Indian ecommerce. Amazon is supposedly considering the market in 2012, so the local businesses are trying to get set before big A arrives. As it is a developing […]
Walmart has a Polaris moment, 360Buy blocks eTao, JadoPado sees big potential in the Middle East and more It is the last day of August 2012 and this past week has been nothing short of a ecommerce hotpot. So many stories, story lines and ideas that makes my head spin (it feels like I don’t […]
Today, I start something that I have been thinking about for the last few months. As of this Friday (depending on a million things), I am going to be posting a list of 10 stories that got my attention. Yes, I said my attention.
The past week my mind has been focused on curation based commerce (Fab.com, onekingslane.com) and the emerging rocket ship called Pinterest. I love Fab and their emails and think that curation based commerce is a vertical that will expand. (The only problem is that they need to scale internationally, cough South Africa.) Let me be […]