Emerging From The Pandemic With eCommerce And IoT

By  |  May 27, 2020
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Emerging From The Pandemic With eCommerce, IoT

Chinese eCommerce firms last worked together for an online shopping holiday called Singles Day on 11/11. China is now tallying its take from the “May 5th Shopping Festival” after consumer spending dropped over the past few months due to COVID-19. And smarter cities could emerge stronger from the pandemic, with the Internet of Things (IoT) poised to transform societies in the coming months and years. All this, Today in Data.

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    Data:

    $101.1B: The projected value of the global smart home technology market in 2020.

    95%: Decrease in U.K. pedestrian traffic recorded by smart city sensors in March 2020 over the prior year.

    5.9%: Year-over-year increase in online sales of physical goods in China in Q1.

    3.9M: Number of iPhones that Apple sold in China in April.

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    $2.21B: Minimum GMV in the Shanghai area from the May 5th Shopping Festival 24 hours after launch.


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