This week, Alibaba reports a 56% climb in revenue for the quarter ended 31 December, 2017, which it says is fuelled by a continued focus on the company's 'new retail' strategy. The Chinese e-commerce giant chalked up revenue totalling ¥83.03bn [...]

Much is to be said about the new wave of buying and selling throughout the greater digital ecosystem. As e-commerce continues to transform the way businesses and retailers alike generate income, the industry must look to divide programmatic buying into [...]

This week, we put the spotlight back on Alibaba as the Chinese e-commerce giant looks to extend its industry knowhow to other Asia-Pacific markets. Malaysia, for instance, sent 30 college students to Alibaba's global headquarters in Hangzhou, China, where they [...]

With millions of products listed on its site, and sales negotiation taking place mostly between consumers, Carousell recognises the need to ensure its marketplace remains a safe environment and it has turned to artificial intelligence, as well as machine learning, [...]

Alibaba is back in this week's focus with a new partnership that will see its A.I. Labs business unit work on an Internet of Things (IoT) project to bring more intelligence into homes. The Chinese e-commerce operator said it inked [...]

With customers increasingly moving away from brick-and-mortar stores for their shopping, finding new ways to personalise the customer experience has never been more important. In this Q&A with RetailTechNews, Aaron Glazer, CEO, Taplytics (pictured below), explains the role AI can [...]

Brands are a fundamental part of the way we experience modern life. They can function as a sort of consensual hallucination, triggering powerful and often subliminal emotional responses, according to Rob Gear, a futurist, and Chris Heap, a consumer and retail [...]

How do you drive interest in a washing machine? Just ask AEG, which recently partnered with AR specialists 3RockAR to deliver an experiential campaign to commuters at London's Kings Cross station through a ‘magic mirror’, immersing passers by in a [...]

Once a company that had just one product on its inventory, SunMoon is discovering a whole new world of possibilities that an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can bring. It is, however, taking the time to ensure all processes and [...]