Forrester Forecast: Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014
Online retail sales aren’t growing at the torrid pace they once were, but they continue to grow steadily. Forrester Research put out a new five-year forecast today predicting that e-commerce sales in...
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Forrester: U.S. Online Retail Sales To Rise To $370BN By 2017 (10% CAGR) As...
Despite years of chewing the digital cud — not to mention a global financial downturn — there’s no sign of the U.S. or European ecommerce cash-cows ailing, according to two new forecasts from...
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WorldStores Raises $15M Series C To Build Out Its Amazon-Style Ecommerce...
WorldStores, a U.K.-based online retailer of home and garden products going after supplier scale to fuel its growth, has raised £10 million (US$15.2 million) in Series C funding, led by Serena Capital....
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Frank & Oak Ups Its Brick-And-Mortar Game As It Hits 1 Million Members
Online menswear retailer and subscription service startup Frank & Oak is opening two new retail stores, including one pop-up shop coming to Toronto tomorrow (something it’s experimented with...
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Chubbies Raises $4 Million Giving Bros A Weekend Uniform
Slangy marketing and a singular vision of weekend wear has netted Chubbies, a manufacturer and online retailer of men’s shorts, a $4 million round of funding from some of the biggest names in fashion...
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The Evolving Landscape Of Recommendation Systems
Everyday decisions, from which products to buy, movies to watch and restaurants to try, are more and more being put in the hands of a new source: recommendation systems. Recommendation systems are...
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E-Commerce Isn’t Everything
The holiday season is here. For many of us that means lots of shopping. Are you doing most of your shopping online or in stores? If you’re like most consumers, the answer is both, but with a...
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Vente-Privee buys Spanish fashion ecommerce site Privalia for ~$560M
Barcelona has just clocked up its biggest ever exit — albeit the price-tag on the sale of veteran Spanish ecommerce player Privalia, headquartered in the city, to France’s Ventee-Privee has not been...
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Shopping Quizzes is a quiz-based recommendation engine for e-commerce sites
A key tenet of e-commerce is the recommendation engine. If implemented correctly, it can be a major sales driver for online retailers. However, most sites normally just implement a basic engine that...
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BloomReach wants to deliver meaningful data directly to online merchandizers
BloomReach has always been about helping online retailers maximize their revenue algorithmically by adjusting content in an automated fashion based on what it knows about the visitor and his or her...
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How artificial intelligence is changing online retail forever
AI is all around us, from searching on Google to what news you see on social media. With the momentum around AI growing, it’s not surprising that some of the most innovative retail sites have been...
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Amazon launches Amazon Cash, a way to shop its site without a bank card
Amazon this morning announced the launch of Amazon Cash, a new service that allows consumers to add cash to their Amazon.com balance by showing a barcode at a participating retailer, then having the...
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Forrester Forecast: Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014
Online retail sales aren’t growing at the torrid pace they once were, but they continue to grow steadily. Forrester Research put out a new five-year forecast today predicting that e-commerce sales in...
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Forrester: U.S. Online Retail Sales To Rise To $370BN By 2017 (10% CAGR) As...
Despite years of chewing the digital cud — not to mention a global financial downturn — there’s no sign of the U.S. or European ecommerce cash-cows ailing, according to two new forecasts from...
View ArticleWorldStores Raises $15M Series C To Build Out Its Amazon-Style Ecommerce...
WorldStores, a U.K.-based online retailer of home and garden products going after supplier scale to fuel its growth, has raised £10 million (US$15.2 million) in Series C funding, led by Serena Capital....
View ArticleFrank & Oak Ups Its Brick-And-Mortar Game As It Hits 1 Million Members
Online menswear retailer and subscription service startup Frank & Oak is opening two new retail stores, including one pop-up shop coming to Toronto tomorrow (something it’s experimented with...
View ArticleChubbies Raises $4 Million Giving Bros A Weekend Uniform
Slangy marketing and a singular vision of weekend wear has netted Chubbies, a manufacturer and online retailer of men’s shorts, a $4 million round of funding from some of the biggest names in fashion...
View ArticleThe Evolving Landscape Of Recommendation Systems
Everyday decisions, from which products to buy, movies to watch and restaurants to try, are more and more being put in the hands of a new source: recommendation systems. Recommendation systems are...
View ArticleE-Commerce Isn’t Everything
The holiday season is here. For many of us that means lots of shopping. Are you doing most of your shopping online or in stores? If you’re like most consumers, the answer is both, but with a...
View ArticleVente-Privee buys Spanish fashion ecommerce site Privalia for ~$560M
Barcelona has just clocked up its biggest ever exit. The price-tag on the sale of veteran Spanish ecommerce player Privalia, headquartered in the city, to France’s Ventee-Privee has not been officially...
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