The latest to launch its own, independent mobile payment platform is department store chain Kohl’s, which has now integrated “Kohl’s Pay,” along with its loyalty and rewards programs, into the company’s mobile …
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 …