social commerce

WhatsApp Offers Cloud-Based API to Businesses

WhatsApp Offers Cloud-Based API to Businesses
WhatsApp Offers Cloud-Based API to Businesses
May 19, 2022  |  API

In an effort to attract more businesses to the app, Meta is adding free cloud-based application programming interface (API) services to WhatsApp, its messaging platform,...

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Small Online Sellers Get Chance to Install a Big Tech ‘Buy Button’
Small Online Sellers Get Chance to Install a Big Tech ‘Buy Button’
May 17, 2022  |  eCommerce

The one-click “buy button” simplicity popularized by the Amazons and PayPals of the world is no less desired by small online sellers, and FinTechs are...

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Egypt’s PayTabs Unveils Social Commerce Platform Paymes
Egypt’s PayTabs Unveils Social Commerce Platform Paymes
May 12, 2022  |  Social Commerce

Egyptian payment company PayTabs has launched Paymes, a new social commerce platform for customers in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. Get the Full Story...

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TikTok, Foursquare Partner to Garner In-Store Visit Data
TikTok, Foursquare Partner to Garner In-Store Visit Data
May 11, 2022  |  Retail

TikTok and Foursquare are partnering on an effort to help sellers and advertisers gather more data about in-store visits across the U.S. and Canada through...

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Pinterest Makes Itself More Shoppable as Platform Positions Commerce to Pick up Ad Slack
Pinterest Makes Itself More Shoppable as Platform Positions Commerce to Pick up Ad Slack
April 28, 2022  |  Retail

Moving deeper into its shift from social sharing and lifestyle app to a product discovery platform, Pinterest is putting commerce at the center of 2022...

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High Fashion’s Digital Transformation Taking More Measured, Experimental Approach
High Fashion’s Digital Transformation Taking More Measured, Experimental Approach
April 27, 2022  |  Retail

Luxury is tactile, flooding the senses with feel, fit, look and other qualities not well conveyed by eCommerce. Be that as it may, luxury brands...

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The Container Store Gets Social and Emotional About Nesting Trend
The Container Store Gets Social and Emotional About Nesting Trend
April 25, 2022  |  Retail

Whether you call it spring cleaning, clutter busting or simply getting organized, these offshoots of the nesting trend are, for many consumers, a concept that...

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It’s Time for Netflix to Stage Its Next Blockbuster Pivot
It’s Time for Netflix to Stage Its Next Blockbuster Pivot
April 25, 2022  |  Streaming

When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and INSEAD Professor Erin Meyer released their business book bestseller No Rules Rules in September 2020, they wrote that it...

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The Next 3 Years: P2P Sites Bring Friendly Betting Into the Online Gaming Orbit
The Next 3 Years: P2P Sites Bring Friendly Betting Into the Online Gaming Orbit
April 19, 2022  |  Social Commerce

Gaming won big in 2021, with the American Gaming Association (AGA) declaring it “a new record as the highest-grossing year ever” for U.S. commercial gaming...

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