Shopify was early to bring its merchants the ability to converse directly with customers via Facebook Messenger, and now it’s launching the ability to actually sell directly within messages between …
Sainsbury’s is to fight back against Amazon with a one-hour grocery delivery service in London. The supermarket, which recently bought Argos as part of its efforts to see off the American online …
Alibaba’s “robust” mobile advertising growth is forecast to boost the company’s digital advertising revenues, according a report from eMarketer, the New York-based research company. It estimates Alibaba will take a …
Starship’s rolling bots will start invading the streets of Washington, D.C. during a test run this fall. Earlier this year, D.C. became the first U.S. city to approve of ground-based …
Billed as an Australian-first in “connected appliance innovation”, a 21.5-inch LCD touchscreen which serves as the refrigerator’s digital command centre — the Samsung Family Hub — allows groceries to be …
Using the app JeFile, visitors to the Carrefour hypermarket in Paris’s Bercy 2 shopping centre can join a ‘digital queue’, which allows them to be in receipt of an accurate …
The rise of automation in the fast-food industry has made headlines in recent months, as chains such as Panera and McDonald’s have heavily invested in tech that threatens to eventually replace …
These insights come from NetBase, a global social analytics company, and its new report, entitled “Social Media Industry Report 2016: Retail Brands,” which looked at more than 430 million social media …
The world’s largest mobile payment company, owned by China’s richest man, has launched a new payment system in New Zealand. Jack Ma’s Alibaba, with an estimated 2 billion customers, has joined …
Amazon.com is speeding the delivery of USB cables, smartphone screen protectors, cosmetics and other small, flat items in its continuing push against rival marketplaces that help overseas manufacturers and suppliers …