U.S. supermarket chain Walmart is making a major play for India's e-commerce market, dishing up USD$16bn (£11.82bm) for a 77% stake in local player Flipkart. The move put an end to weeks of market speculation, and was announced after SoftBank [...]

Although omnichannel has long been a buzzword in retail, implementing a successful omnichannel strategy is something which more often than not proves easier said than done. In this piece, RetailTechNews and Brian Green, head of EMEA sales, Magento Commerce, discuss [...]

With Asia-Pacific consumers spending more time on their mobile devices, retargeting tools for in-app marketing need to improve and help brands better engage customers. App marketers must to be able to follow the entire user journey from the time the app [...]

In a challenging market, where almost a fifth of retailers are issuing profit warnings, marketers need to extract maximum performance from every penny of their advertising budgets. In this piece for RetailTechNews, Ally Stuart, managing director EMEA, Sharethrough, outlines that, to [...]

In this piece, Grant Coleman, VP and market director, Emarsys UK, tells RetailTechNews how, today, customers enjoy more purchasing options and control than ever before. A shift in the balance of power from brand to customer has triggered a period of [...]

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 Multibillion-Dollar Advertising Business; Amazon Smashes Wall Street Expectations; and [...]

Retailers have known for years that to stay ahead of the game, they must improve their technological capabilities. However, some retailers have adapted to this change better than others. In this Q&A with RetailTechNews, Matt Sebek (pictured below), VP of [...]

This week, the spotlight is on Alibaba Group's plans to use blockchain to better monitor and manage supply chains, kicking off a pilot in Australia and New Zealand through its Food Trust Framework. The Chinese e-commerce giant said it was working [...]

The change digital technology is driving in retail is there for all to see. However, while some retailers are diving in at the deep end, others are only dipping their toes in the water for now. In this Q&A with [...]

Even though more sales are taking place online, shoppers have as many questions to ask as when they went in-store. This Q&A with Marie Sagarzazu (pictured below), UK country manager, iAdvize, looks at how conversational marketing tools can fill this gap, and [...]