Wayfair announced the launch of Patio Playground, the brand’s first-party virtual reality application, available on the Oculus Rift Experiences store. See how this will benefit the brand and what the application will include for consumers.
PayPal and Visa have entered a strategic partnership and recently outlined a number of anticipated benefits from the collaboration. While industry observers suggest the move will expand PayPal’s acceptance at point-of-sale locations and drive more Visa transactions across PayPal’s digital payments platform, the ensuing analysis has primarily focused on the key implications for the payments industry and how the partnership is likely to impact consumers and merchants.
Online payments through digital wallets and debit/credit cards have been emerging as a preferred transaction mode in India, mainly due to ease of transaction, availability of smartphones and internet access, and enhanced security and encryption methods. Here’s how to make the most of this developing growth opportunity.
Gaia Herbs announced that Angela McElwee will move into the role of president, effectively immediately. See what McElwee has planned in her new role as president and what other changes are occurring for Gaia Herbs.
It’s no secret that, in recent years, retailers have been challenged to keep customers loyal and remain competitive. See why shoppable and user-generated content is important for your brand.
Consumers today are making purchases both on and offline, through mobile devices, and even social channels from all over the world. Retailers are transforming their business strategies to engage these consumers, wherever they are, but not every retailer is seeing the payoff for their efforts.
PartCycle Technologies has launched The PartCycle Marketplace, an ecommerce platform providing recycled and remanufactured original equipment auto parts for collision and mechanical repair professionals and consumers. Here’s how PartCycle plans to connect buyers who need quality parts with professional automotive recyclers.
As the number of internet users in China is constantly on the rise, more consumers are looking to Social Media channels as their most trustworthy source of information for purchasing decisions. In the face of this new trend and as part of its mission to support Italian wine producers wishing to expand their share in the Chinese wine market, Vinitaly International carried out a survey aimed at mapping out, for the very first time, the social media preferences of Chinese wine professionals. Here’s a look at some of the findings.
Worldpay is expanding in Australia after winning its license to process payments in what is one of Asia Pacific’s largest ecommerce markets. The company’s expansion in Australia comes at a time of sustained growth for Worldpay, which processed 13.1 billion transactions in 2015 valued at £401.9 billion (approximately $593.3 billion) in 2015.
Alibaba Group has announced that as a continuation of the success of the Group’s inaugural 11.11 countdown gala last year, it will once again host a similar event this year in the hours leading up to the midnight start of the upcoming 2016 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. Here’s what Alibaba plans to do offline to get buyers to shop online this Singles Day.