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If your ecommerce business does one thing in 2016 – it should be to adopt HTTP/2. From faster webpage load times to improved SEO
While it can be difficult to predict what a new year will bring in the fast-moving world of the internet, one technical development should be on the radar of every organization in 2016: HTTP/2. Here's everything you need to know about HTTP/2 and why your...
Four Predictions For Ecommerce In 2016
Online retail is evolving at lightspeed with new and better technology arriving seemingly daily. Here, we take a look at innovations that will get better, faster and more powerful in 2016. Personalisation, the growth of mCommerce, real-time support and the importance...
Number Of People Using Non-Bank Options To Manage Their Money Could Double In 2016
In the first nine months of 2015 alone fintech startups raised $10.5 billion from venture capitalists and other big investors. But are real people actually using their products? In the early days of fintech companies plowed their often sizable war...
Why data mining is the future of online retailing
Imagine for a minute that the year is 1849. A new resource has been discovered in the rolling hills of California, and some say it can make you rich. Do you pack your bags and head west? Or do you pass on the opportunity and focus on your livelihood at home? An...
Plastic is So Passé
Sixty-one percent of shoppers want to use mobile pay this holiday season. Once upon a time, a man said, “As far as I'm concerned, [technological] progress peaked with frozen pizza.” Well, that person spoke way too soon because now consumers have the...
Just in time for holiday shopping, e-commerce gets AI upgrade with IBM Watson
The North Face has partnered with IBM Watson and Fluid to bring AI to online shopping. Hopefully, it will make gift buying a little easier. Shopping for yourself is hard enough, but buying gifts for someone else can be even more difficult. And with the holidays fast...
Wearables’ User Experience Isn’t a Good Fit for Payments
At a recent HCE Payments conference attended by Helixion there was an interesting debate about what form would drive contactless payments forward: mobile or wearables. One opinion was that it would not be the mobile phone but “wearable devices”...
Swatch partners with Visa to bring NFC payments to its analog smartwatch
Launching in the US, China, Brazil, and Switzerland next year Swatch has announced that it's bringing contactless payments to its forthcoming Bellamy smartwatch in the US next year. The Swiss company, which is the largest watchmaker in the world by...
Building brand loyalty in the next generation of commerce
Believe it or not, a 16-year-old and his or her 56-year-old father are part of the same generation. This generation isn’t defined by age. Rather, its members share the same attitude towards how to apply digital technology to their most mundane,...
Planning to shop for the holidays before Black Friday? 29% of consumers say they’ll be shopping before Black Friday week this year.
“I’ve tried Black Friday in the past and I regret it. The lines are crazy. It was miserable and I will never do it again.” — survey respondent All the anticipation around and build-up to the Black Friday...