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Fashion is the clear winner while event tickets have the most loyal customers. Durable and service-oriented goods won the hearts of Vietnamese online consumers in the first month of this year, according to a recent Nielsen Global Connected Commerce survey.…
Globally, 8.4 billion connected things will be in use in 2017, up 31% from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020, according to projections from Gartner. Total spending on endpoints and services will meanwhile reach almost $2 trillion in 2017, the research…
Each year thousands of internet users fall victim to a cybercrime that leaves them out of pocket. Research from Kaspersky Lab reveals that over half (52%) of internet users who’ve lost money at the hands of cybercriminals have only got some, or none, of their…
Internet penetration increased by 10% in the last 12 months to hit 3.773 billion, or 50% of the world’s population, according to a report from social media management platform Hootsuite and social media agency We Are Social. The report also showed that global…
Mobile technologies and services generated 6.2% of the GDP of Bangladesh in 2015, a contribution that amounted to around $13 billion of economic value, according to GSMA Intelligence. In the same year, mobile operators and the ecosystem provided employment to…
The Australian big data and analytics market is forecast to grow from $244.1 million in 2015 to $585.1 million in 2019, according to IDC. Banking, retail and government sectors have made impressive strides into the analytics domain with an objective of…
1. Retailers build competitive advantage through the Internet of Things With Hong Kong retailers still struggling in the face of falling tourist numbers, restricted spending from Mainland Chinese shoppers and fierce competition from e-commerce channels, I…
The mobile apps industry managed to achieve growth throughout last year, but signs suggest that usage growth is slowing down, according to Yahoo unit Flurry. Over the last year, the Flurry footprint grew to track more than 940,000 applications, across 2.1…
Electronic payments account for 69%1 of consumer transactions in Singapore – just slightly higher than the global average of 65%. The country’s e-commerce market, valued at US$1.39b in 2015, is predicted to exceed S$7b in 2025 with 60% of consumers saying…
Affin Hwang Capital Research is retaining its Neutral sector rating on the consumer sector and recommends stocks with solid track records and high yields, with Heineken as its top pick. It said on Monday while the Q3, 2016 earnings mainly disappointed, it…
Today’s consumers are increasingly looking for specific and engaging experiences while shopping, according to an analysis from Lotte Department Store’s research team for retail trends. The team proposed a set of guidelines to help retailers prepare next…
Once a consumer starts researching products on their smartphone, the actual purchase of a product is pretty close behind. In the U.S., the final purchase is most likely to occur in a physical store, which is not the case in some other countries. While…
Apple is working hard to break into the Indonesian smartphone market, announcing plans to invest roughly $44 million in a research and development (R&D) center over the next three years. The investment will let the company sell its iPhone 7 there after the…
They want more personalised reward programmes, not just the traditional point-based ones. Amidst Singapore’s retail doldrums, more than 75% of Singapore consumers indicate that the will buy more from retailers if they are better rewarded for their loyalty.…
Mobile operators worldwide earned a combined €11 billion ($11.7 billion) in revenues from the IoT in 2016, but revenues remain relatively low compared to lofty industry projections, according to Berg Insight. Despite a significant early install base, low…
Mobile device adoption in the workplace is not yet mature, research from Gartner indicates. Although 80% of workers surveyed by the analyst company received one or more corporate-issued devices, desktops are still the most popular corporate device among…
