RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Shopping Apps Help Mobile Account for Half of European Online Sales; Nearly Half of UK Shoppers Put Off by Irrelevant Offers; and For Most [...]

Selling goods online is by no means an even playing field. Some companies base their whole business models around it, while some find it a perennial thorn in their side. Speaking exclusively with RetailTechNews, David Trolle (pictured below), head of online [...]

JD.com takes the spotlight this week with the launch of a new accelerator dedicated to the development of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Dubbed 'AI Catapult', the accelerator would be part of the Chinese retailer's AI programme and work [...]

Amazon has retailers trapped in a corner. Partner with the behemoth, and retailers can grow sales, but are only offering Amazon more data on their customers, thereby helping their growth. Don't partner, and retailers risk losing ground on the competition. In [...]

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: Australian retailers turning to tech to fight Amazon; Amazon syphoning [...]

With China celebrating the lunar new year, we put the spotlight this week on India, where online consumer spending is projected to climb from USD$40bn (£28.5bn) to USD$100bn (£71.24bn) by 2020. This growth would be fuelled largely by e-commerce spending, [...]

Virtual reality in retail has always been something of a gimmick, but with Walmart acquiring VR company Spatialand and Kantar starting up a new consultancy specifically applying VR to the retail sector, it seems there’s a change in the wind. [...]