Mobile commerce

RealTruck.com, an online retailer for pickup truck accessories, was recently recognized as a finalist in the third annual Internet Retailer Excellence Awards. The award series highlights outstanding and innovative online retailers and business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce companies for significant strides made in their nominated category over the past year. Selected by a panel comprised of Internet Retailer senior editors and e-commerce ... Read More »

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Bloomberg App Annie CEO Sees Mobile Commerce Growing FastBloombergThe fastest growth in app usage will be coming from mobile commerce, says Bertrand Schmitt, CEO of App Annie. This is because commerce is increasingly moving into the digital space, with mobile phones taking a more important role in the buying process. Source link Read More »

Consumer reliance on mobility throughout their shopping journey presents a huge opportunity for retailers to engage shoppers.  This is according to “Mobile Shopping: User Acquisition Trends and Benchmarks 2017,” a report from mobile app marketing provider Liftoff. The study analyzed 26.9 billion ad impressions across 4.8 million app installs between April 2016 and April 2017. According to the study, September ... Read More »

Martin Tan, Co-Founder, ForeverShop Bangalore- and Beijing-based Team Leaf Software Pvt. Ltd—which runs ForeverShop, a mobile platform connecting individual and small-time sellers with customers—has raised $300,000 (around Rs 2 crore) seed funding from Chinese early stage investor 91maker.com. Incorporated in November 2016, ForeverShop became operational in January this year. The mobile platform has already on-boarded 1,000 sellers across India, said ... Read More »

A new report from mobile app marketing specialist Liftoff reveals that the cost of acquiring new customers for mobile shopping apps is falling. The cost of getting someone to install an app is just $4.45, though converting that into a purchase costs considerably more (over $75), with an install-to-purchase rate of just 5.9 percent. The study which analyzed 26.9 billion ... Read More »

Asia-Pacific is the largest and one of the fastest growing online retail markets worldwide. The report reveals that this region is predicted make up almost half of global B2C E-Commerce sales by 2021. It also maintains a share of more than 50% in terms of global sales when services and C2C sales are included. In the time period between 2016 ... Read More »

Martin Tan, Co-Founder, ForeverShop Bangalore- and Beijing-based Team Leaf Software Pvt. Ltd—which runs ForeverShop, a mobile platform connecting individual and small-time sellers with customers—has raised $300,000 (around Rs 2 crore) seed funding from Chinese early stage investor 91maker.com. Incorporated in November 2016, ForeverShop became operational in January this year. The mobile platform has already on-boarded 1,000 sellers across India, said ... Read More »

Goodbox, an app that offers small and medium-sized businesses an e-commerce platform, has raised about $1 million (Rs 6.5 crore) in a fresh funding round led by existing investor Nexus Venture Partners, the company’s latest filings with the ministry of corporate affairs show. Mekin Maheshwari, founder of Udhyam.org and former chief people officer at e-commerce firm Flipkart, also participated in ... Read More »

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Mobile commerce to top US$6 trillion by 2021The Star OnlineLONDON: Tech stocks may be slumping, but the growth of mobile commerce – one of the key trends that has underpinned investor enthusiasm for the sector in recent years – is only likely to accelerate, according to App Annie, a research company … Source link Read More »

Dive Brief: Mobile commerce startup Packagd on Thursday unveiled its first application, Unboxed, a mobile video channel aimed at selling technology gadgets by leveraging the growing Internet phenomenon of “unboxing” videos and aggregating them in one app, according to a company press release. Packagd backed up the notion that many people watching such videos are researching their own future product purchases, linking ... Read More »