Amazon acquired a team of more than a dozen satellite experts from Facebook to work on Project Kuiper. The wireless internet experts were hired by Amazon as it aims to launch thousands of satellites and roll out broadband services in the US and abroad. The employees moved from Facebook to Amazon in order to work […]
Cairo-based eCommerce platform Taager secured $6.4 million in new funding to expand its operations across the Middle East as it looks to capitalise on growth of online shopping in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The early-stage funding round was led by 4DX Ventures, a pan-Africa-focused venture capital company, the Taager said in a statement […]
The eCommerce market is growing in South Africa, and with it, the number of players is also increasing. The digital transformation of a society is the precursor of eCommerce. How well a market is growing can be measured by the rising number of internet users. A Hootsuite report titled Digital 2021 throws light on the […]
How will hospitality marketing be reimagined in the Post-COVID era? In 2019, Alibaba Group, the Chinese eCommerce conglomerate opened its FlyZoo Hotel, a 290-room ultra-modern boutique run almost entirely by robots that serve food, fetch toiletries and take care of other tasks to serve guests. When the pandemic hit, the hospitality felt the full force […]
It is nearly impossible to imagine a world without brick-and-mortar stores, and while traditional retail is unlikely to become completely extinct over the next few years, a shift to digital transactions has been gathering speed for over a decade. Even before the global pandemic, the share of online sales was increasing steadily year after year, […]
Despite the rapid migration to eCommerce, companies realise that customers still wish to go to in-store locations that include elements of online shopping. Abdel loves shoes and shopping. The only hiccup that dampens his spirits is the long wait for the store employees to find his size. But now, he can reserve his shoes online, […]
Innovative technologies are working to fill the last mile fulfilment gap so marketers can offer flexible delivery options that consumers demand According to a study commissioned by Dubai Police, Dubai Economy and financial services provider Visa at the height of the pandemic last year, 68 per cent of UAE residents reduced in-store shopping and 49 […]
Consumer appetite for digital banking services continues to grow in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, accelerated further by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey conducted by Backbase with YouGov. 77 per cent of respondents in the GCC access digital banking services at least once a week 44 per cent are willing to switch […]
Yottaa published the Site Speed Standard, a new online benchmark that measures the experience and conversion impact of site speed on eCommerce sites, drawing on the shopping activity of more than 25 billion page views across 200 leading retailers. The Site Speed Standard is the industry’s first interactive database for data directly related to the […]
BigCommerce announced a new integration with Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) that allows BigCommerce merchants to more easily fulfil their eCommerce orders using Amazon’s order fulfilment services whether they sell on Amazon or not. “Adding Amazon MCF to our best-in-class tech partner portfolio brings tremendous value to our merchants by strengthening their omnichannel strategy to enhance […]
