Literary critiques of Molière aside, Yahoo! can lay claim to coining the term “social commerce”. Back in 2005, David Beach a product manager for ‘Yahoo! Shopping’ launched ‘Pick Lists’ and...
Based on Cap Gemini’s recent global report on the future of retail (free download), local shopping search engine Milo has produced an infographic on how consumers see the future of retail. Putting aside the whole mis-attributed H. Ford quote...
…is over at Chris “Hunch” Dixon’s site. It’s the smartest discussion we’ve seen on the future of e-commerce, with 117 comments from industry thought leaders – including the CEOs of Fab (Jason Goldberg) and...
Establishing itself as the Bible of Retail Trends, PSFK has released its third annual survey of retail innovation – The Future of Retail – crammed with insights and inspiration. As you’d guess, mobile and social technology figure...
So is this how Facebook is going to make money? Facebook is now allowing real-money gambling apps into its app center. The first app went live yesterday Bingo and Slots Friendzy – bet a penny and win £56,717 ($88,000). The app – which...
After last week’s most excellent New York Times article on f-commerce (e-commerce on Facebook) as a smart SMB play (it’s easy and inexpensive for small businesses to set up a Facebook store), new research from market research giant TNS...
Two years ago, Facebook-centric marketing app for running social media promotions Wildfire launched Groupon-style group deals for Facebook, allowing retailers to offer group-discounts on Facebook when fans club together and buy together. W hotels...
Great report just out from consultants McKinsey – “The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies“. (download) It’s 170 pages long, a free download, and based on in-depth analysis of usage in...
So you’ve seen the results, shares in Nasdaq-listed Facebook fell more than 10% in after-hours trading yesterday to an all time low – after having already fallen 8.5% during the day as Zynga twisted the knife and blamed Facebook for poor...
So the 83,812 Facebook fans of Heineken’s leading UK cider brand Bulmers each consume 80 bottles more per year than average (non-fan) adopters. Or £198.64 (US $308.99) more revenue per fan per year. That’s a cool $25.8 million extra...
Here are five recent innovative social commerce initiatives from around the planet spotted by the brilliant go-to resource for entrepreneurial ideas, Springwise. Proof positive that there’s more to social commerce than social plugins on e...
Houston, we have a problem. Or so it would seem. New data from IBM (with accompanying report below) shows mobile commerce in 2012 is booming – now representing 15.1% of all online sales (Q2 2012 – up from 13.2% in Q1). If e-commerce...