RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: The Power of Couponing; Millennials Turning to Online Reviews; and An Eggcellent Easter. The power of couponing Nearly two-fifths of US grocery shoppers have [...]

This week, Alibaba Group takes the spotlight with its USD$2bn (£1.44bn) investment in Singapore-headquartered e-commerce operator Lazada, as it ramps up it expansion plans for Southeast Asia. This would push its total investment to USD$4bn (£2.88bn), following its initial USD$1bn [...]

This week, the spotlight is back on JD.com and its hopes to develop next-generation supply chain technologies with the launch of a new research facility. The Chinese e-commerce operator opened its Global Supply Chain Innovation Centre (GSIC) with the aim [...]

Technological advances in retail happen quickly, so retail marketers have to be able to react just as quickly. In this piece for RetailTechNews, Abigail Davies (pictured below), content marketing manager, Ometria, describes the changes we have already gone through, and how machine learning [...]

In this piece for RetailTechNews, Kelly White, general manager of WWT Asynchrony Labs, explores the range of technologies available to ensure retailers can cater to customer demand. Digital disruptor Amazon has decided to take on the high street. A few weeks [...]

The way consumers search has been evolving for years, but now, with the evolution of technology like voice and chat interfaces, that evolution has jumped to lightspeed. In the build up to Retail Week Live, which is run in partnership [...]

For traditional television broadcasters, revenue opportunities are shrinking. Earlier in 2017, subscriber growth fell dramatically. The industry lost a record 762,000 subscription customers in the first quarter of 2017, according to PwC. What’s more, ad revenue was expected to decline [...]

JD.com takes the spotlight this week with the launch of a new accelerator dedicated to the development of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Dubbed 'AI Catapult', the accelerator would be part of the Chinese retailer's AI programme and work [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: APAC Marketers More Likely to Adopt New Tech; China App Users Hardest to Keep; Malaysia Publisher Platform [...]

Having well and truly settled in to 2018, many retailers are in the midst of defining their latest business objectives, as well as how they plan to continue improving across all areas of their business, writes David Buckingham, CEO, Ecrebo [...]