RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves from the past seven days, analysing how the giant is revolutionising the retail space. In this week’s edition: Prime Membership Numbers Announced; USPS Could Make Amazon Suffer; and [...]

Marketers in China need to consider 'seamless' user experiences and ensure their ads are appropriately designed to meet local market conditions and demands. The fragmented Android app store environment, for instance, means developers need to spend more effort building apps [...]

This week, the spotlight remains on Alibaba and its deal to buy out all remaining shares it does not already own in Chinese online delivery platform, Ele.me. The transaction was estimated to place Ele.me's market value at USD$9.5bn (£6.86bn), according [...]

RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: The Power of Couponing; Millennials Turning to Online Reviews; and An Eggcellent Easter. The power of couponing Nearly two-fifths of US grocery shoppers have [...]

This week, Alibaba Group takes the spotlight with its USD$2bn (£1.44bn) investment in Singapore-headquartered e-commerce operator Lazada, as it ramps up it expansion plans for Southeast Asia. This would push its total investment to USD$4bn (£2.88bn), following its initial USD$1bn [...]

This week, the spotlight is back on JD.com and its hopes to develop next-generation supply chain technologies with the launch of a new research facility. The Chinese e-commerce operator opened its Global Supply Chain Innovation Centre (GSIC) with the aim [...]

Technological advances in retail happen quickly, so retail marketers have to be able to react just as quickly. In this piece for RetailTechNews, Abigail Davies (pictured below), content marketing manager, Ometria, describes the changes we have already gone through, and how machine learning [...]

In this piece for RetailTechNews, Kelly White, general manager of WWT Asynchrony Labs, explores the range of technologies available to ensure retailers can cater to customer demand. Digital disruptor Amazon has decided to take on the high street. A few weeks [...]

The way consumers search has been evolving for years, but now, with the evolution of technology like voice and chat interfaces, that evolution has jumped to lightspeed. In the build up to Retail Week Live, which is run in partnership [...]

For traditional television broadcasters, revenue opportunities are shrinking. Earlier in 2017, subscriber growth fell dramatically. The industry lost a record 762,000 subscription customers in the first quarter of 2017, according to PwC. What’s more, ad revenue was expected to decline [...]