Apple’s Pay Later Option May Impact US Consumption Patterns
In the latest Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), some key updates were announced for Apple Wallet. Besides the Tap to Pay feature, which allows…
Online Smartphone Sales in Key SEA Countries at Record High in Aug
Southeast Asia (SEA) has been facing a fresh wave of COVID-19 for the past three months. While the cases are coming down in most of the region, full…
Amazon’s Big Fall Launches and Their Impact
Amazon recently held its annual Big Fall Event during which it introduced many devices mainly focusing on the smart home segment. Companies are…
COVID-19’s Online Handset Sales Impact: Temporary or Long Term Trend?
COVID-19 has had two major impacts so far with respect to the global smartphone market. One is negative growth and the other is a rapid shift to…
The Rise of Pinduoduo: The New E-Commerce Challenger in China
It came as a surprise when Pinduoduo, a four-year-old e-commerce platform, started to challenge the duopoly of JD.com and Alibaba in China. Founded…
Why Both Apple and Amazon Win in Newest Deal
Apple has made a deal with Amazon to sell Apple’s range of products including the new iPhone XR, iPhone XS / XS Max, Apple Watch Series 4, and iPad…
A New Leap Forward for China’s Smart Speaker Market
Ever since the launch of Amazon Echo in 2014, smart speakers have become an increasingly popular device among consumers. With AI and voice…
WWDC 2017 : Powerful New Hardware, Augmented Reality and Machine Learning
Apple's annual WWDC 2017 kicked off today in San Jose, California. Apple’s annual WWDC 2017 conference was centred on getting its legions of…
Amazon Echo Look: playing a longer game
Amazon is introducing a new variant of the Echo voice assistant, Echo Look. It is currently available only by invitation at a cost of $199. It is…
Amazon & Social ‘e’nfluence
The ecommerce battles are rising with Amazon being at the forefront of the landscape but many regional competitors (Flipkart in India, Lazada in…
In-Car Advertisement: Changing Landscape
The opportunity and the opportunist Ride hailing services like Uber, Lyft and Didi Chuxing are changing the commuting landscape. An average American…
Alibaba: Strong became Stronger
Alibaba posted strong quarterly results(Q3 2015) with 28% annual growth to reach 713 Bn yuan in GMV. Despite the chinese economic slow down, Alibaba…
Is China’s economic slowdown Affecting Alibaba?
China’s economic growth is marginally slowing down, as per China’s National Bureau of Statistic accumulated GDP growth slowed down 9.4% growth rate…
“Monthly Active User” Metric is Dead
Change is the Only Constant Social Media companies are mutating where their business models are rapidly changing from platform driven to ecosystem…
Time to go Vertical? Alibaba Vs Amazon
Alibaba is continuously growing at a significant pace; over 45% YoY for last several quarters. Mobile Monthly Active Users (MAUs) is growing faster…
Big Trend: Messaging Apps Becoming Ecosystems : Line, WeChat & Others
We have written previously and predicted on how the messaging apps are revolutionizing the tech industry. i.e. How Wechat has transformed into a huge…
Tweet, Tweet, Buy, Retweet, Buy, Tweet !! Welcome to Twitter Commerce
The world is going mobile thus use-cases are going mobile thus social behavior is going mobile thus advertising is going mobile and so is commerce is…
WeChat Is Leapfrogging Amazon With A Richer Mobile-Social-Commerce Strategy
We are in a mobile personal computing era living in a mobile-centric real-time social way. Consumers are moving quickly from fixed, shared computers…