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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.
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 […]
Foundem starts legal proceedings against Google in the UK, Bezos does not care about profit margins and 2012 was a good year for South African ecommerce The first real working week of 2013 is in the record books and the news from across the ecommerce globe confirms it. Legal issues is starting to make news […]
Shoprite Checkers claims a Africa first, Nike sells Cole Haan, Bezos speaks and Google Shopping gets attacked by Microsoft December 2012 is here and this past week (where did November go?) has been a busy one for ecommerce. Black Friday and Cyber Monday is now in the record books and by all indications, the winner […]
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 […]
The Secrets of Bezos, Shoprunner gets funding from Alibaba, Flipkart raises more capital, Google being investigated in Brazil and Zulily wants to IPO Readers – don’t stress this is the 10 ecommerce stories for the week of 10 October just with some changes. Moving forward the week ending post will contain the headline stories in […]
“There are a lot of people who think we’re in a bubble,” Andreessen said, “which makes me think we’re not. I hope everybody thinks we’re in a bubble, though, because it helps keep prices [for making equity investments] down.” Marc Andreessen in conversation with Kara Swisher When I think of eCommerce, a few companies come […]
E-commerce in emerging markets is one of the keys to commerce maturation that will be seen globally in the next 10 years. The fastest growing ecommerce markets are not saturated like what is seen in the UK, US or South Korea. Thus investors such as Naspers, Tiger Global Management and Rakuten are competing against one […]
It is the month of February and Q4 seems like a lifetime away. I am beginning to see one story develop in more detail as time goes by. Ecommerce in North America is becoming a battle between Amazon and Google. It is Jeff Bezos vs Larry Page, the State of Washington vs California and it […]
Backed by science, not marketing. Decide.com Decide.com – make a note of that name. 12 months ago I found the Seattle startup after doing research on ecommerce recommendation engines (This was prior to Hunch being acquired by eBay, whom I thought was onto something). Recommendation services for ecommerce products are high on the agenda for […]
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 […]
About a year ago, I found a company based on West Coast that had strong connections with Comparison Shopping Engines (CSE). I researched and read everything I could about Wize Commerce and was left confused. I have been keeping an eye on the Comparison Shopping environment in the US as Google continues to circle around […]
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 […]
Amazon’s Junglee Ties Up with Quikr, China’s Suning approved for international express delivery service, Alibaba to enter the US?, Vente-Privee Seeks $11 Billion Revenue, Gilt to go public in Q3 and much more.. This past week felt like a long list of announcements about ecommerce companies going public in the latter part of the year. […]