QR code usage doubles in Europe
Germans are most avid users of QR codes, while Spain ranks as fastest growing market, according to new research.
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Which US retailers lead the mobile commerce market?
Amazon, eBay, Apple and Walmart lead the way in m-Commerce market in the US, where 4 in 5 smartphone users are shopping via their device.
Most UK 5-year olds now going online regularly
More than four fifths of British five-year-olds now own or use an internet device, according to new research.
Facebook debuts real gifting service
Facebook has launched a new service that lets its users send friends real gifts via the social network. Members can send gifts from the birthday reminders link on the news feed or from a friend’s Timeline via the “Give him/her a gift” link or the present icon. Gift notifications can be posted to that friend’s … [Read more…]
YouTube scouts talent for new mobile music project
YouTube is looking to expand its mobile music services, after posting a job ad looking for a manager to oversee an ambitious new music catalogue based on the music videos on the video sharing site.
Shopper intention to buy food and drink online grows 44%- global survey
Online shopping for food and beverages is on the rise, with 61% of global online consumers using the web to research their grocery shopping, with 44% intending to spend more online during the past 2 years, according to a study.
Simultaneous use of Internet and TV ‘now an everyday reality’
Two thirds of Connected TV viewers frequently use the internet while watching TV, and a quarter are always online while they watch television, according to a new study.
West behind East for mobile commerce adoption
Shoppers in Indonesia and Thailand almost twice as likely to shop using their mobile device and three times more likely to recommend items to friends on social platforms as US and European counterparts, according to new research.
Less than 1% of online purchases come from social channels: Forrester
Thirty-nine percent of online retail transactions by new customers start with clicks from paid or organic search results and less than 1% come from social channels according to a new Forrester report.
US TV to broadcast first YouTube funded show ‘Recipe Rehab’
US TV network ABC is to broadcast a cooking show that began as part of YouTube’s “Original Channels” initiative, the first such deal to take a YouTube-funded program to national TV.