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E-commerce
5 @ 07:00 AM 7 VIEWS The Hottest E-commerce Startups Of 2015
International, Forbes, N.2208
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Buying and selling things on the internet is certainly not a new phenomenon. Yet while companies like Amazon.com AMZN +2.74% and eBay EBAY +0.00% were founded decades ago, there are still plenty of upstarts trying to improve the online commerce experience.
E-commerce brand promises to make online shopping smoother
International, The Times of india tech, N.2207
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
NEW DELHI: With studies by e-commerce provider Shop Pirate revealing that online shopping prevents work-related stress and hyper tension, the brand has decided to redesigned its website to make online shopping more smoother.
Amazon.in most visited e-commerce site in Nov, Flipkart 2nd
International, Money control, N.2205
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Amazon.in continued to be the most visited e-commerce site through November with more than 27 million unique visitors, pipping Flipkart and Snapdeal, according to data provided by Internet analytics firm comScore.
Read more at: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/amazonin-most-visited-e-commerce-sitenov-flipkart-2nd_4790121.html?utm_source=ref_article
Abingdon, Virginia, police to create e-commerce safe zone
International, Herald Courier.com, N.2204
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
ABINGDON, Va. — The rise in popularity of Craigslist, eBay and similar e-commerce websites has been accompanied by a few individuals who use the sites with bad intentions, leading police around the country to create safe exchange zones.
Google's Schmidt says UK is leader in e-commerce, says
International, BBC News, N.2203
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
The UK is the world leader in e-commerce, former Google boss Eric Schmidt has told the BBC.
Now executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, Mr Schmidt said there was no reason why a hundred billion pound tech start up could not be launched in Britain.
Kingdom leads the way in online food orderingdiction: Ecommerce to exceed 10% of retail sales in 2016
International, Zawya, N.2202
Sunday, December 27, 2015
JEDDAH -- The Internet is revolutionizing many industries bringing customers ever closer to their most loved brands. Finance, Retail, Fashion, and Food are a few examples - the latter certainly being the most eye-catching.
The online-first strategy pays off for brands
International, Gulf News, N.2201
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Consumer brands align with UAE’s eCommerce portals to get launches off the ground
The online interface allows all brands to be equal and will tailor the product display in a distinctive way. What’s more, the display can be tweaked.
8 MENA ecommerce predictions for 2016
International, WAMDA, N.2000
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Launches of dozens of new startups; the growth of accelerators like AstrolabsME; M&A activity in food delivery with Rocket’s purchase of Talabat; rumors of IPOs in the payments space; and to top it all off, a massive $60
'Tis the season to shop online
International, kaleej Times, N.2099
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Want to find a couple of good deals, but avoid the rush of shoppers in the mall? Shop online. Want to get exclusive early deals and limited products? Shop online. Want to shop for your favourite brands during sales, and have the items delivered to your doorstep? Shop online.
Flipkart's Trendstalk platform to help designers
International, fibre2fashion N.2098
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
India's e-commerce giant Flipkart has partnered with Italian fashion company Pitti Immagine, India's Arvind and designers including Timzy Batra and Prithvi Rao to help sellers on its marketplace create designs in line with global trends
Prediction: Ecommerce to exceed 10% of retail sales in 2016
International, Biz Report, N.2054
Monday, December 21, 2015
If the 2015 holiday season has shown one thing it is that shoppers are becoming more and more comfortable not only with online shopping, but with mobile shopping. There have been several $1 billion shopping days since Thanksgiving Day in the us, and one expert believes this trend will continue into 2016.
The Luxury Closet Secures $1Million Funding from Wamda Capital
UAE, Zawya, N.2055
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Dubai, UAE: The Luxury Closet, the fast growing online marketplace that buys, sells, and consigns personal luxury goods, mostly pre-owned and at a discounted price, announced that it has secured $1 million funding from Wamda Capital, the region's premier venture capital firm.
The Luxury Closet Secures $1Million Funding from Wamda Capital
UAE, Zawya, N.2033
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Dubai, UAE: The Luxury Closet, the fast growing online marketplace that buys, sells, and consigns personal luxury goods, mostly pre-owned and at a discounted price, announced that it has secured $1 million funding from Wamda Capital, the region's premier venture capital firm.
UAE’s eCommerce chugs along nicely
UAE, Gulf News, N.2032
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Dubai: The local brick-and-mortar economy might be looking quite subdued, but none of that seems to be reflected in the eCommerce space. New Web-based businesses are making it to the launch phase with regularity, with recent weeks seeing multiple ones in the classified and property listings space.
PayFort releases two new tools for ecommerce startups
MENA, Wamda, N.2031
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
PayFort announced December 15 the release of two new features to help MENA startups overcome online payment challenges.
The Middle Eastern online payment service provider released START, a service which offers startups and SMEs an option that allows them to set up online payment services in just a few hours.
Google reveals the most watched ads on YouTube in 2015
International, Ad News, N.2029
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
YouTube has revealed what ads Aussies watched most on its online video player this year, with an ad for mobile game Clash of Clans topping the list.
With more than 85 million views globally, the minute-long ad couldn't be beat, however several locally produced ads also made the list including Optus’ first reluctant Ricky Gervais spot and Dolmio's fun use of technology with its Pepper Hacker.
e-commerce scores over traditional retail
Internatioanl, Gulf News, N.2028
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Ecommerce is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Middle East and is a very closely analysed sector. The biggest advantage that this sector has over the traditional medium is ease of use. Today users can buy products while watching a movie in the cinemas.
Friday Market Announces Free Classifieds Website for GCC Arab Locations
GCC, PR News Wire, N.2027
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Friday Market, a premiere online trading and classifieds site, has launched its new website, http://www.fridaymarket.com. The cutting-edge website is currently focused on listings and resources for GCC Arab countries, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
7 ways to protect your ecommerce site from security threats
MENA, WAMDA, N.2026
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Ecommerce sites can open up a raft of avenues for fraud and hackers.(Image via iStock)
A single day doesn’t go by without hearing about someone, or some group, penetrating a website and stealing credit card or other sensitive data from ecommerce sites.
Asia-Pacific Is Home to Majority of World Retail Ecommerce Marke
MENA, E-Marketer, N.1901
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Retail ecommerce sales in Asia-Pacific will hit $877.61 billion in 2015, up 35.7% from 2014. For the first time, the region will not only have the largest digital retail market in the world, but its share of global digital retail spend will also reach 52.5%—the first time it holds an outright majority of the world market.
PAYFORT announces START, a solution to make it easy for start-ups to embrace ecommerce, and The FORT, a next generation payment gateway that allows enterprises to fully optimize their online payment processes
Egypt, Zawya, N.2025
Monday, December 14, 2015
Cairo, Dubai - PAYFORT , the Arab world's leading online payment service provider, today announced two trail-blazing solutions to help businesses in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) meet the region's online payment challenges. PAYFORT START,
3 Ways to Build B2B Relationships with Ecommerce
International, Practical ecommerce, N.1832
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
When it comes to building relationships, B2B ecommerce is different than B2C. There is still an individual relationship — there’s always a person on the other side. However, in B2B that person is doing a job, typically as a buyer or a distributor.
The Internet of Things is about to reshape e-commerce
International, Vision Mobile, N.1831
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
The UAE is at an interesting upward turning point in terms of technological space where recurrently new aspects of technology are emerging, closing the gap on what used to be done traditionally.
Using Ecommerce Site Search for Customer Insights
International,Practical ecommerce, N.1829
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
When shoppers search on an ecommerce site, they are sharing insights about what they expect from the site and what they think of its products. Ecommerce marketers can learn from these insights, potentially improving conversion rates and marketing effectiveness.
SEO for E-commerce: 7 Most Critical Disorders & How To Cure Them
international, Business2community,N.1737
Saturday, December 05, 2015
Many popular e-commerce sites have hundreds of thousands of products and a great potential to do well online. However, when it comes to optimizing for the search engines, they just assume their enormous size will stamp out any SEO troubles they might face.
Will v-commerce replace e-commerce?
international, Hypergrid Business N.1736
Saturday, December 05, 2015
More than a third of consumers say they would shop for more products online if they were able to try them virtually using headsets, and 63 percent say they expect virtual reality to impact their shopping experiences in the future, says the Reinventing Retail 2015 Report.
8 eCommerce Design Trends For 2016 To Ignite The Selling Potential Of Your Store
international, Business2community N.1728
Friday, December 04, 2015
As you probably saw (or did so yourself) over Black Friday and Cyber Monday, modern-day shoppers are buying their items online. As of earlier this year, nearly 30% of consumers were making an online purchase once a week! The growth in eCommerce consumption by consumers has led to an increased amount of competition for merchants. How do you stay ahead of the competition?
Trends in ecommerce packaging center on design
international, Packaging Digest N.1734
Thursday, December 03, 2015
A review of the best-read articles in 2015 about packaging for ecommerce reveals a decided interest in making a good impression with online or mobile shoppers. Our top three stories show multiple examples of creative packaging that please, as well as protect.
Meet Lisa Says Gah, the E-Commerce Site That Goes Way Beyond Shopping
international, Vogue N.1728
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
The promise of Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service as depicted in a video released on Sunday is incredibly exciting. Taken at face value, this could represent the first real introduction of robotic devices into the mainstream as a consumer service – flying robotic delivery agents!
3 challenges keeping Amazon’s delivery drones from taking flight
international, Mashable N.1649
Monday, November 30, 2015
The promise of Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service as depicted in a video released on Sunday is incredibly exciting. Taken at face value, this could represent the first real introduction of robotic devices into the mainstream as a consumer service – flying robotic delivery agents!
Crazydeals.com banks on customer convenience to strengthen its footing in MENA region
international, Kippreport N.1678
Saturday, November 28, 2015
In the midst of technological interventions in various walks of life, the prominence can be seen on the shopping front with the advent of e-commerce platforms. The love of the mall is significantly decreasing due to the current strengthening of the dollar and more consumers shifting towards online shopping which is cost saving, convenient and hassle free.
Cyber Monday madness hits the UAE
Source: Albawaba N.1624
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, offers all the holiday deals without the holiday crowds. It follows Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the Unites States when retailers offer huge discounts to kick off the Christmas sales season.
Ecommerce in India: you ain’t seen nothing yet (INFOGRAPHIC)
Source: Tech Nasia N.1577
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
More than US$3 billion of funding has gone into online marketplaces in India this year, as they expand and scale up rapidly across the country. While Flipkart and Snapdeal hogged the limelight last year, along with their global rival Amazon, the Alibaba-backed Paytm emerged as a shooting star in 2015. A number of niche sites also attracted eager investors to grow fast.
WHICH PAYMENT GATEWAY SUITS YOUR BUSINESS BEST?
International, Go Gulf N.1727
Monday, November 23, 2015
With everything online these days, it leaves you with no choice but to find a source reliable enough to be dealt with through a screen without the benefit of all those old ways we were taught; like looking in someone’s
Travel eCommerce: Past, Present and Future
Source: I am Wire N.1576
Monday, November 23, 2015
Tourism has become an important sector which helps immensely in the development of the nation. Tourism in India is growing rapidly and is very important economically. This sector accounts for more than 7% of the nation’s GDP and supports more than 40 Million jobs in India. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), this sector is growing at an average annual rate of 8%.
International ecommerce: Four things to consider when venturing into foreign markets
Source: Econsultancy N.1575
Sunday, November 22, 2015
In 2012, we conducted research into how the recession had affected attitudes towards global trading opportunities.
We found that many of the respondents had been forced to rely heavily on global markets to maintain or grow their revenues.
Black Friday sales are coming to UAE starting November 25
Source: Kaleej TimesN.1480
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
The online retailer aims to sell 100,000 mobile phones at the lowest prices, 50,000 watches with starting price of Dh29, 10,000 litres of perfume, 100,000 litres of Pepsi, and one million diapers at the lowest price of 58 fils per piece.
17 ways to personalize ecommerce for four types of customer
Source: Econsultancy N.1479
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
ack in 2013, our Realities of Personalisation report found that 98% of respondents saw personalisation as critical to success.
Fast forward to 2015 and Econsultancy’s latest Conversion Rate Optimisation report, in association with RedEye, and only 22% of respondents said they had implemented website personalisation.
Do E-Commerce Sites Completely Mess Up Their SEO?
Source: Customer Think N.1476
Monday, November 16, 2015
Ecommerce sales continue to grow, generating over $300 billion in the U.S. alone this year. Yet ecommerce still remains a small percent of overall retail sales at approx. 10%. So what can multichannel and ecommerce retailers do to increase their online sales?
5 Ecommerce Trends That Will Be Game Changers in 2016
Source: Multi Channel N.1475
Monday, November 16, 2015
Ecommerce sales continue to grow, generating over $300 billion in the U.S. alone this year. Yet ecommerce still remains a small percent of overall retail sales at approx. 10%. So what can multichannel and ecommerce retailers do to increase their online sales?
Jamba Juice Set To Roll Out Mobile Ordering App For 600 Locations
Source: Retail Touch Prints N.1474
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Jamba Juice has revealed that it will fully roll out a mobile "order ahead" option into its Jamba Juice mobile app in mid-November. The feature, which is designed to reduce in-store wait times, will be supported in more than 600 Jamba Juice locations in the U.S.
BitHappy — The Next Generation of Bitcoin Ecommerce is here
Source: Newsbtc N.1473
Saturday, November 14, 2015
BitHappy, a new bitcoin browser brings both digital currency and ecommerce together on the same page. The platform calls itself the first bitcoin browser in the world which enables people and businesses to sell things online for bitcoin.
Meals on Wheels: Internet to Table in the Middle East
Source: Knowledge @ UPenn N.1363
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
When the German e-commerce company Rocket Internet SE bought Kuwait-based Talabat.com this year for $170 million, the deal for the online food delivery platform was reported to be the largest Internet technology transaction in the Arab world to date. Kuwaiti entrepreneur Abdulaziz Al Loughani founded Talabat in 2004...
OnePlus launches its First Online Brand Store in the Middle East, exclusively on Souq.com
Source: Zawya N.1361
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Possessing the dream technology becomes accessible for those who "Never Settle". Souq.com , the leading online retailer in the Middle East, is pleased to announce its partnership with OnePlus to launch its first online brand store in the UAE on 11th November and in the KSA on 12thNovember.
Five Lessons From Alibaba's Record-Crushing $14.3 Billion E-Commerce Sale
Source: Advertising Age N.1470
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba just logged $14.3 billion of merchandise sold via its platforms in 24 hours, breaking its own record for the world's biggest one-day sale online.
Alibaba Smashes Singles’ Day Sales Record in Half the Time
Source: Gulf News N.1412
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Alibaba’s figures come as China’s retail sales accelerated in October
(Bloomberg) - It only took Jack Ma half the time Wednesday to sell the same amount of stuff he did a year ago with his online channels.
ABDUL WAHED WEBSITE: ONLINE SHOPPING MADE EASY
Internatioanl, Go Gulf N.1726
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Do you want to sell your products online better and faster with an effective e-commerce design? GO-Gulf is a leading web design company in the Middle East that puts its clients’ online business on the forefront with robust and scalable e-commerce solutions.
Abdul Wahed, a well known retail brand in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, had launched its e-commerce store in February 2015. But the company was unhappy with the constant bugs, slow speed and an unimpressive design of its website.
Technology is about the business of now not tomorrow
Source: Gulf News N.1347
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Over the years, the way international finance works has changed dramatically. Ever increasing technological innovation has demanded that financial centres revamp their infrastructure to stay competitive.
On Mobile, Black Friday Matters More Than Cyber Monday
Source: Social Media N.1346
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
When you’re a consumer tech company planning your Q4 marketing budget, it’s easy to think of Black Friday as a relic of the brick-and-mortar world: people waiting at the doors at Best Buy or laden with shopping bags from Macy’s, buying for others or for themselves
Retail trading website JadoPado sells $4m stake to GCC venture capital firm
Source: Arabian Business N.1345
Monday, November 02, 2015
Online retail marketplace JadoPado has sold a minority stake to an investor consortium led by BECO Capital, a GCC-focused venture capital firm that also hold stakes in Propertyfinder.ae and care hire app Careem.
E-commerce market in Qatar poised for growth
International, The Peninsula, N.1725
Saturday, October 17, 2015
DOHA: Qatar’s e-commerce market is poised for strong growth in the coming years. The B2C (Business-to-Consumer) market or e-commerce market in Qatar, currently pegged at $1bn, is likely to double in the next five years. According to the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ictQatar), this market is expected to grow at Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17pc over the next five years. E-commerce refers to the use of Internet to conduct business transactions between individuals and organisations.
Alibaba opens second US data centre in $1 billion cloud push
Source: Gulf News N.1186
Thursday, October 08, 2015
Alibaba is betting on internet-based computing and big data to boost growth in the next decade.
Hong Kong: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. opened its second data centre in Silicon Valley as it invests $1 billion in its cloud computing business globally to compete for clients with Amazon.com Inc.
