2017 could go down as the year that e-commerce decidedly went to the small screen. Conversion rates are still much higher on desktop, according to Adobe data. Salesforce found personalization mattered.
If you follow the money and the billions of dollars spent on shipping, Amazon's move to create its own air force is an experiment worth taking.
Amazon launches Fire TV and the pricing and lack of initial Prime and e-commerce hooks could disappoint. However, Amazon's Fire TV appears to be courting non-Prime engagement. Can Amazon woo non-believers to its platform?
Amazon's big win with the acquisition of Goodreads is that it can make the Kindle more social and juice Kindle sales.
The USPS has been rattled by digital payments, email and online marketing. However, e-commerce bolsters the USPS and may even help save it.
E-commerce sites have two seconds to load a Web page or consumers will click away. And after three seconds nearly all customers will split, according to research by Forrester and Akamai.
The returns on investment for Amazon's Dash program may be a bit murky for now, but there are some intangibles to ponder.
Cynics, optimists and realists will all have valid points about Amazon's drone delivery plans. In the meantime, Amazon has managed to dominate the headlines on Cyber Monday.
ComScore's data---along with other information from IBM's CoreMetrics and ShopperTrak---will likely contribute to the clicks killing bricks argument for retail.
EBay's reported solid first quarter results and upped its earnings outlook for 2008.The auction giant reported first quarter net income of $460 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $2.