The holiday season is edging closer, and consumers are pumped to indulge, celebrate, and recuperate. Young UAE consumers are especially eager to resume their normal lives and make up for last year’s COVID-controlled holiday. For insights from enthusiastic consumers about holiday shopping, gift-giving, spending, and sentiment, Sitecore conducted a survey, Holiday Shopping Trends 2021, which […]
Holiday retail sales are likely to increase between 7 per cent and 9 per cent in 2021, according to Deloitte’s annual holiday retail forecast. Overall, Deloitte’s retail and distribution practice projects that holiday sales will total $1.28 to $1.3 trillion during the November to January timeframe. Deloitte also forecasts that eCommerce sales will grow by 11-15 per cent, year-over-year, […]
FedEx Corp and Salesforce.com Inc are entering into a partnership to collaborate on tools for businesses that sell goods online. The companies will integrate Salesforce’s cloud-based eCommerce software and its order-management tools with FedEx’s ShopRunner eCommerce platform. The combined tools will help commercial customers manage and fulfill orders and get better visibility into the supply […]
Google recently announced that it will enforce correct unique product identifiers (UPIs) for products uploaded to Google Merchant Centre, even for free listings. Google said it is “expanding this enforcement and applying it to products listed in free listings.” Google explained that “providing the correct unique product identifiers (UPIs) for your products ensures that Google recognises them […]
Emplifi, the unified customer experience platform, recently announced the launch of Emplifi Social Commerce Cloud, offering industry-first social commerce capabilities for CMOs, eCommerce leaders and social media teams charged with driving high conversion rates and increased revenue across social platforms. The innovative, first of its kind platform delivers a full suite of solutions to enable […]
34 per cent of YouTube views occur on connected TVs, brands and programmatic buyers now can curate custom TV genres that mimic traditional programming VuePlanner, a contextual, data-driven YouTube campaign performance solution, announced the extension of its capabilities to connected TV (CTV) on the entertainment platform. “As we launch for CTV, there are nearly 5 […]
Netcracker Technology announced a strategic partnership with Vodafone Oman, the newly formed mobile network in the Sultanate of Oman. Vodafone Oman will deploy Netcracker Digital BSS, a highly configurable and flexible solution that enables fast time-to-market while offering a rich digital customer experience, as the foundation of Vodafone’s BSS2Cloud initiative. By reducing time-to-market for new […]
Intuit recently stated that it will acquire Mailchimp, in a deal valued at $12 billion as it rounds out its platform for small and mid-sized businesses. The cash and stock deal landed shortly after the acquisition of CreditKarma. According to Intuit, the acquisition of Mailchimp will enable it to build an ‘end-to-end customer growth platform’ […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) and volumetric video firm Volograms has launched the public version of its 3D content creation app, Volu. Using deep learning and computer vision technologies, its AI-powered mobile content creation platform enables smartphone users to easily create, share and play with immersive, dynamic augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) content. Volu is an extension of Volograms’ […]
Capiter announced it has raised a $33 million Series A. Co-led by Quona Capital and MSA Capital alongside additional investors Savola, Shorooq Partners, Foundation Ventures, Accion Venture Lab, and Derayah Ventures. The round comes as Capiter ramps up its efforts to expand its service across Egypt and the region within 2022. Capiter provides small-to-medium enterprise […]
