11/30/2018 8:38:32 PM Record Mobile Sales Hit $2B On Biggest Black Friday Ever By Gareth Jones US consumers purchased more than $2 billion of goods straight from their phones on Black Friday.
2/16/2018 5:14:12 PM Bloomberg made a retro 80s-style game where you try to stop a mall going out of business. By Gareth Jones Bloomberg launched an 80's style arcade game last week which gives players a glimpse into the tough choices American mall owners face in...
10/12/2016 11:00:36 PM FlyPay pivots and raises £3.5M Series A from Just Eat. By Gareth Jones Just Eat, the online takeout ordering behemoth, has invested in U.K. startup Flypay, which has built a platform to help restaurant and...
5/26/2016 10:21:41 PM Twitter Disbands Commerce Team, Ceases Product Development On “Buy” Button By Gareth Jones Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest have all embarked on major product initiatives in this area. Twitter backing away from social commerce...
12/3/2015 8:36:14 PM Amazon Dominated 36% of Online Black Friday Sales By Gareth Jones Slice Intelligence, which gathers e-commerce data from receipts noted that Amazon dominated online Black Friday sales, accounting for...
12/2/2015 3:45:25 AM Black Friday and Cyber Monday are big in the UK too By Gareth Jones Shoppers in the UK spent a record £1.1bn with UK online retailers on Black Friday, with analysts forecasting another £934m in sales for...
7/31/2015 11:28:09 AM Facebook wants to be the place where you go to shop. By Gareth Jones “Buy buttons” and in-app purchases aren’t new. Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest have all been testing them. Facebook just went a step...
4/22/2015 3:17:20 AM Twitter Begins Selling Sports Tickets By Gareth Jones Picked up by Jason Del Ray at Re/Code, Twitter has started to sell sports tickets - a logical fit according to Jason because of the large...
4/22/2015 2:55:28 AM A New Kind of Financial Culture is Brewing in Latin America By Gareth Jones It is staggering to think that with the explosion of mobile devices the majority of the world will experience the internet for the first...
4/7/2015 10:28:11 PM The Criteo report on the state of Mobile Commerce is out with some great data By Gareth Jones Mobile now accounts for over 30% of eCommerce sales globally according to Criteo. They analyzed individual transaction data covering over...