On Dec. 31, 2014, Facebook rolled out a banner that enabled Messenger users to send selfies to their friends to wish them a Happy New Year. Instead, a lot of people went to the bug reporting feature of the Messenger app to send selfies to...
Consumers increasingly depend on their laptops, phones and tablets to reveal the best shopping deals online, and the recent holiday shopping bonanza was no different. A new infographic released by Alliance Data Retail Services offers insight into exactly how holiday shoppers took advantage of technology...
Amazon has set the 2015 bar high for itself. The company announced Monday (Jan. 5) that it set a new sales record in 2014 in terms of number of items purchased through the online market place. According to Amazon, more than 2 billion items across...
Alibaba’s spectacular, $25 billion IPO earlier this year made many of its former employees sudden millionaires. Now, the company’s Executive Chairman Jack Ma is encouraging his old team to spend their earnings wisely – and preferably on Chinese startups. Those former employees are now the...
January 29, 2015
Even though global consumer confidence has been on an upswing since late 2012, Nielsen reported on Jan. 28 that the global consumer index — the indicator that projects consumer spending — dipped slightly to 96 in Q4 of 2014 from the quarter prior, though this is still up from Q4 2013, signaling both a strengthening […]
January 26, 2015
On Dec. 31, 2014, Facebook rolled out a banner that enabled Messenger users to send selfies to their friends to wish them a Happy New Year. Instead, a lot of...
January 16, 2015
Consumers increasingly depend on their laptops, phones and tablets to reveal the best shopping deals online, and the recent holiday shopping bonanza was no different. A new infographic released by...
January 06, 2015
Amazon has set the 2015 bar high for itself. The company announced Monday (Jan. 5) that it set a new sales record in 2014 in terms of number of items...