With China celebrating the lunar new year, we put the spotlight this week on India, where online consumer spending is projected to climb from USD$40bn (£28.5bn) to USD$100bn (£71.24bn) by 2020. This growth would be fuelled largely by e-commerce spending, [...]

Virtual reality in retail has always been something of a gimmick, but with Walmart acquiring VR company Spatialand and Kantar starting up a new consultancy specifically applying VR to the retail sector, it seems there’s a change in the wind. [...]