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Google launches gaming platform Stadia
Google launches a new gaming platform: Stadia. The platform is built on the Google Cloud Platform and games are streamed directly to a Chrome browser. This means that the player...
March 28, 2019
Instagram trials in-app purchasing with leading brands in US
Social media platform Instagram works on making in-app purchases possible. The platform teams up with major brands like Adidas, Anastasia Beverly Hills, ColourPop, Huda Beauty, KKW Beauty, Kylie Cosmetics, Nike...
March 26, 2019
Rising sales for international e-tailer ASOS
ASOS said it had 16% more active customers and that 4% more orders were placed. However, the average selling prices and basket sizes both decreased by 1%. The basket value...
March 26, 2019
Spotify filed complaint over 30% app-tax against Apple
A complaint against Apple has been filed by Spotify, claiming that they introduce rules to their App Store that limit innovation and choice on purpose. This is at the expense...
March 21, 2019
Russian e-commerce to grow 170% in the next five years
The Russian e-commerce is growing. Last year, the total value of the market contained 13.7 billion euro. This year, it is predicted to be worth 17 billion euro. By 2023,...
October 22, 2018
TomTom improves operating results despite difficult consumer market
Navigation company TomTom saw its turnover decrease to 83 million euro on the consumer market in Q3 of 2018. Despite worrying analysts, these losses were compensated through profits in automotive...
October 16, 2018
H&M and Klarna announce partnership
H&M and Klarna have entered into a global partnership, the fashion retailer announced. Together, H&M and Klarna will further integrate H&M’s digital and physical stores to give customers a seamless,...
October 15, 2018
eBay Fulfilment and eBay Shipping launched in Germany
In Germany, eBay has started to offer two new logistic services: eBay Fulfilment and eBay Shipping, reports Tamebay.com. Both services will qualify sellers for eBay Plus a subscription service for...
October 12, 2018
iServe Acquires Global Ecommerce Consultancy Practicology
iServe, a growth intelligence organization for e-commerce that helps merchants to achieve massive e-commerce growth and marketplace control, has acquired UK-headquartered e-commerce consultancy Practicology. The acquisition is part of iServe’s...
October 5, 2018
E-commerce Nordics up 11% in the first half of 2018
There was an increase of 11 percent during the first six months of 2018 when looking at the e-commerce growth of the Nordic countries. They now have made online purchases...
October 1, 2018
Amazon Turkey has launched
Amazon has officially launched Amazon Turkey, a local, dedicated marketplace. On the platform, Amazon offers products from 15 different categories to Turkish consumers. Previously, Turkish consumers were only able to place...
September 25, 2018
Digital marketing: global spending near $100 billion
Last year, spending on digital marketing grew by 44% in the United States and Britain, bringing the total marketing value to $52 billion. A study estimates that the global outlays...
September 24, 2018
HipVan: Designer Furniture in South-East Asia
This article previously was published in Cross-Border Magazine Proudly founded in Singapore, HipVan is creating affordable furniture and home decoration for its customers. Inspired by the problem that in Singapore,...
September 20, 2018
Zalando launches Partner Program in Norway
Fashion platform Zalando launches its Partner Program in Norway, allowing brands to connect to its over 24 million active customers all over Europe. In Norway, the first partner brands will...
September 18, 2018
E-commerce in France: Q2 sales up 14.4 percent
According to the French e-commerce federation (FEVAD) the online retail sales in France rose in the second quarter of 2018 to 22 billion euros, reports Reuters. This is a growth-percentage of...
September 11, 2018
The Netherlands has the highest online store density
The Netherlands has the most online stores per capita, about 80.000 on a population of 17 million. This means that for every online store, there are 214 people. It is...
September 4, 2018
IWC expands e-commerce and opens new factory
The Swiss watch brand IWC, owned by Richemont, inaugurated its new factory in Schaffhausen. This to keep track with growing demands for its luxury watches. The new production location brings...
August 29, 2018
New E-commerce tax for multinationals in Chile
The government of Chile is planning to include a new tax on multinational digital (e-)commerce companies with local operations. This as a part of a wider tax bill set to...
August 28, 2018
Alibaba cross-border turnover: 652 million dollar
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba generated more turnover from its cross-border activities. This can be concluded when looking at the quarterly figures of the company. The cross-border turnover grew 64%, to...
August 24, 2018
Adyen: 70 billion euros in the first half of 2018
According to the figures that were published on the 22nd of August, payment agency Adyen has grown considerably in sales in the first half of this year. These figures are...
August 22, 2018
JD.com and Unilever partner in distribution deal
Chinese platform JD.com and Dutch-Brittish Unilever have partnered on distributing some products, e.g. Lipton tea and Lux soap, to China. Unilever states that it is trying to access the more...
August 20, 2018
Cdiscount marketplace crosses border to neighboring countries
French marketplace Cdiscount is expanding outside France. The online platform offers delivery of selected items to Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain. The products that will be shipped outside of France...
August 8, 2018
Dutch consumers spent 15 percent more on European webshops
According to the Dutch research company CBS, Dutch consumers spent around 400 million euros on products at foreign webshops in the European Union in the first quarter of 2018. This...
August 3, 2018
Amazon Prime: 10 million new members in 2018
The loyalty program Amazon Prime is not growing as fast as before. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) announced this during the international bargaining day Prime Day, in which only members of...
August 2, 2018
E-commerce Hungary: €1.65 billion in 2017
In 2017, Hungarian e-commerce was worth 1.65 billion euros, revealed eNet during the E-commerce Hungary conference. This means that, in about 10 years time, the domestic e-commerce revenue grew about...
July 3, 2018
Whitepaper: How to target an additional 58 million online shoppers? - Crossing the border to Germany
Cross-border business remains one of the very few growth opportunities in today‘s highly optimized e-commerce landscape. Utilizing the differences in pricing, taxes, consumer preference and scale, smart merchants can easily access huge potential even if...
June 20, 2018
173.000 e-commerce websites in France
The French e-commerce federation Fevad revealed that, at the end of last year, there were 173.000 active retail websites in France. This is an increase of 10% in comparison to...
June 18, 2018
JD.com brings China closer to European retailers by train
E-commerce giant JD.com introduced a new solution for online retailers from Europe who are looking to sell in China. The China Railway Express is faster than the sea and cheaper than...
June 7, 2018
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One in four Brits shop online once a week
In 2017, 22 percent of the British population shopped online once a week. The percentage of online shopping has increased to 26 percent in the last year. Also, 68 percent...
May 24, 2018
Jet.com becomes an Apple authorised dealer
Walmart’s subsidiary Jet.com has become an authorised dealer of Apple, setting them aside from US competitor Amazon. This means that, on Jet.com, you can now buy the iPhone, iPad, Mac...
May 22, 2018
E-commerce represents 42 percent of PostNL's turnover
Dutch postal company PostNL experiences that e-commerce is becoming a more important turnover factor every year. Last year, e-commerce logistics was responsible for 34 percent. This percentage increased by 8...
May 14, 2018
Amazon Prime users to drop service with coming price rise
Amazon will raise the cost of American Prime in the USA from $99 to $119. This change will come effective starting June, 16th. The announcement followed after the results of the...
May 11, 2018
Zalando grows to 24 million users in the first quarter
On May 8th, Zalando published its quarterly figures. These show that the number of active users of Zalando increased with 3.5 million users in the past quarter bringing the total...
May 9, 2018
Amazon raises storage fees
Amazon is increasing its fees for using its merchant fulfilment program Fulfilment by Amazon (FbA). As of April 26th, 2018, Amazon introduces a new pricing structure that will affect both...
May 1, 2018
EU Council adopts rules on cross-border parcel delivery to promote e-commerce
The EU facilitates consumers and businesses to compare delivery rates in the European Union to promote e-commerce. This way, it will be more easy to oversee the complex fulfilment market. The...
May 1, 2018
Acapture, Sift Science to Bring Merchants World-Class Fraud Products
Acapture has partnered with Sift Science, a machine learning company that protects businesses from fraud and abuse. Using the smartest technology for fraud management in their joint effort to make online...
April 5, 2018
C&A opens online store in eleven EU countries
Leading European fashion retailer C&A is boosting its focus on cross-border e-commerce. With the launch of a new EU shop, C&A delivers to customers in eleven new countries: Croatia, the Czech...
March 26, 2018
European Parliament: Improving cross-border parcel delivery to boost buying online
According to the European Commission, clearer information on the prices of parcel delivery services should help to increase consumer confidence in cross-border shopping and shipping. The new rules are part...
March 14, 2018
E-commerce in the Netherlands: €22.5 billion in 2017
In the Netherlands, e-commerce was worth 22.5 billion euros in 2017. This is a growth of 13 percent compared to the situation one year before. The Dutch made a total...
March 12, 2018
Amazon Australia starts with FbA
Amazon increased its service offering to merchants in Australia by starting with the Fulfilment by Amazon (FbA) program in Australia. Local businesses selling through Amazon Marketplace will now be able...
February 27, 2018
Report: Germany online
eTail has published their annual report about the online market in Germany. Insights show that customer demands are evolving quicker than many retailers can keep up. With Germany, the biggest...
February 21, 2018
Rakuten and Walmart announce strategic alliance
Rakuten and Walmart are about to launch an online grocery delivery service in Japan and a new eBooks and audiobooks offering in the U.S. According to Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon...
January 30, 2018
Marketplaces on top, cross-border surging and merchants feeling confident
This article previously appeared in Cross-Border Magazine Nr.4, October 2017 Author: Cheng Liem Li, CCO – Payvision & Acapture Since 2014, Payvision has been running the biggest annual global survey...
January 8, 2018
Cross-Border e-commerce library available to online merchants
Online merchants who want to expand cross-border can now find infographics providing actionable stats, facts and figures from an interesting e-commerce regions. Stats are provided by the data-driven omnichannel PSP...
December 20, 2017
Dutch e-commerce sector worth €22 billion in 2017
The e-commerce turnover in the Netherlands will be worth up to 22 billion by the end of 2017. During the first three quarters, 15.7 billion euro was spent online. Q4...
December 18, 2017
Letz’shop: Luxembourg’s national e-commerce platform
Luxembourg will launch LetzShop.lu, a national e-commerce platform which will be created to boost the urban e-commerce. The platform is an initiative of the Ministry of Economy. Economic Interest Group (GIE) is in...
November 28, 2017
Online records on Black Friday
American retailers have sold products for 7,9 billion dollars online last Thursday and Friday. A little over five billion of the turnover came from products sold on Black Friday, concluded...
November 27, 2017
A delightful unpacking experience
This column previously appeared in Cross-Border Magazine Nr.4, October 2017   Henk Teunissen, CEO and founder of Rivièra Maison talks to us what it means to create an experience on all...
November 22, 2017
Column: Demystifying Product Identifiers
This column previously appeared in Cross-Border Magazine Nr.4, October 2017 Despite working for several global retailers, until recently I was not aware of how the barcode works and the significance of...
November 16, 2017
Digitalisation: a B2B approach
Wholesalers have always pursued a multi-channel strategy. In earlier days, it may have consisted of using a catalog, a brick-and-mortar store and sales representatives. Digitalisation and the Internet resulted in...
November 8, 2017
Shoppers in the UK expect free delivery for orders over £10
In the United Kingdom, online consumers aren’t too eager to pay for a delivery. Only when a fee isn’t too high, they are willing to pay. Two-thirds of UK shoppers...
October 30, 2017
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