She brought antitrust investigations against Google and fined Apple $15 billion for tax avoidance. She is also starting to take an interest in Amazon. Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for competition, is the only person in the world seriously trying to create and maintain an even playing field for business against the tech giants of the west.
...read moreA bold statement indeed, what if retail apps for m-commerce are really on their way out? That’s what a recent study by Vanson Bourne and WP Engine found out. More than 80% of IT, R&D and marketing professionals across the UK, US and Australia think that apps could be going the way of the dodo – that forward-thinking organisations will be implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Progressive Web Apps (PWA) within the next 12 months.
...read moreE-commerce in Germany continued to grow last year, but for smaller online stores, that growth is – increasingly – only being seen by the top online players. The small online players don’t have much of a chance to grow. In a recent EHI study, the 1,000 top-selling online stores in Germany were able to generate revenues worth €42.8 billion. That’s an increase of 8.1% compared to the previous year. So why are the players towards the end of that list showing less growth than in previous years?
...read moreAt the MagentoLive Europe in Barcelona, Adobe showcased the first integrations of Magento Commerce into the Adobe Experience Cloud. Companies are now able to integrate shopping experiences and to personalise those in many ways. Additionally, Magento presented the new version 2.3 of Magento Commerce, which will include new functions into Adobe Commerce such as the Progressive Web Applications Studio, Magento Payments and Sales Channel integrations like Amazon and Google.
...read moreLet’s face it: Amazon is a juggernaut in e-commerce. Their market value reflects this, recently having broken the $1 trillion mark. Mr. Bezos and his company are absolutely smashing at disrupting commerce. What once started as a humble bookselling company has grown to sell almost everything (yes, even groceries!). The thing is, even a company of Amazon’s gargantuan size has weaknesses. It’s just a matter of finding ways of exploiting these weaknesses.
...read moreCEO Kevin Systrom and CTO Mike Krieger are leaving Instagram. That means the photo-sharing app’s future will be much more tightly controlled by Facebook executives. It goes without saying that this will have major implications for the service. The news has shocked those around Silicon Valley, mostly because it was so unexpected. So what will the future bring for both Instagram and Facebook?
...read moreIf you love PayPal and live in Europe, you now have a wider range of payment methods with the Smart Payment Button. Introduced in the US three months ago, Smart Payment gives consumers more choices when it comes to paying. The checkout dynamically shows the most relevant payment methods when one goes to pay. These include PayPal (that goes without saying), Venmo and PayPal Credit.
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