Technology - E-Commerce

German Online Retail Sales Increase By 12%

The turnover of German online retail business rose to €14 billion in the second quarter of 2017, according to data from the Bundesverband E-Commerce u...

Ocado Holds Talks With Several US Grocers After Amazon Deal

Ocado Group chief executive officer Tim Steiner said the UK online grocer’s chances of licensing its technology to a US counterpart have been boosted...

Alibaba Invests $1 Billion In E-Commerce Platform Lazada

Chinese online marketplace Alibaba has announced that it is investing approximately $1 billion to increase its majority stake in the Lazada group, from 51%...

Cdiscount Records 4 Million Visitors On First Day Of Summer Sale

French online retailer Cdiscount recorded more than four million visits on its website on 28 June, which the company says is a record for the first day of...

Dansk Supermarked Expands Wupti Online Marketplace

Dansk Supermarked Group says that its online retail platform Wupti has doubled the range of products it provides as it collaborates with other online marke...

E-Commerce Prospering In Europe, But Markets Growing At Different Speeds: Report

EuroCommerce, in cooperation with E-commerce Europe and the E-commerce Foundation, has published the European E-commerce Report 2017, which reveals th...

Google Braces for EU Ruling That May Slow Shopping Ad Boom

Google executives will wake up on Tuesday to the largest antitrust fine in European history. Even a whopping financial penalty would do little to faze a co...

Amazon's E-Commerce Whirlwind Upsets The Grocery Cart: Gadfly

It seems Jeff Bezos is serious about the grocery business. Amazon spent years essentially dabbling in the $795 billion annual US market for food and bev...