This week, two of Singapore's online marketplaces, Carousell and Carro, have secured funds totalling USD$145m (£106.82m), while Alibaba says it has acquired South Asian e-commerce platform, Daraz. Classifieds site Carousell snagged USD$85m (£62.62m) in its Series C funding, which also saw [...]

Today's tech-savvy consumers are on the move; and if you want your brand to succeed, you need to keep moving with them. In this piece for RetailTechNews, Smriti Kataria, director for research and marketing, Near, explains how retailers and brands need [...]

Moss Bros, East, Mothercare, Carpetright, Toys R Us, Maplin, New Look, Poundworld, and House of Fraser – it has been a torrid 2018 for the UK high street with liquidations, CVAs, and restructurings. Here, David Courtier-Dutton, founder and CEO, SoundOut, explains [...]

In this piece, Lars Engelbrecht, director, ad operations and solutions, Retail Media Group (pictured below), tells RetailTechNews how advertisers have increasingly come to understand that it generally makes little sense to roll out campaigns using a scattershot approach. Pure branding [...]

The concept of virtual reality (VR) as a serious commercial concept has been brewing for well over a decade, with the technology regularly heralded as the next big step in gaming, entertainment, and design. In this piece for RetailTechNews, John [...]

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: Amazon's Could Represent 10% of All Retail by 2020; Walmart [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Significant Increase of Mobile Fraud; Mobile App Video Exchange by OpenX; Media iQ Rebrands to 'MiQ'; Cheetah Mobile Co-operates with Protected Media [...]

Because a significant part of its hardware business is driven by resellers, Hewlett-Packard (HP) may not always have access to its customer data and needs to find ways to work around such limitations. Over the last couple of years, as [...]

RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Organisations Struggling to Activate Their Data; Similarities Between Sainsbury’s & Asda Customers; and The Battle for Mobile Wallet Dominance Continues. Organisations Struggling to Activate Their Data While sales and [...]

This week, China's two largest online retail operators have posted higher quarterly revenues and attributed the growth to efforts in driving their respective offline-online commerce strategy. Alibaba said its revenue climbed 61% in the quarter ended 31 March, 2018, hitting ¥61.9bn [...]