Historically, online sales on cyber Monday have been a good indicator of ecommerce’s year over year growth for the Holiday season.
ComScore reports that online sales for this year’s Black Friday grew a measly 2% year over year. “Early reports suggest that Black Friday sales in retail stores were slightly ...
Pandora, Last.fm, and iLike have broadened the appeal of recommendation algorithms and social discovery and sharing. Despite a challenging – even hostile - business environment, passionate entrepreneurs and music lovers are bringing to market new ways to explore and discover new music.
Mufin has gathered the most attention so ...
Yahoo! sold Kelkoo today for a mere €100M – a fifth of what it paid in 2004 to acquire it (€475M). Beyond Yahoo’s internal issues and ability to absorb a large entity, a few fundamental issues have plagued Kelkoo and its likes (Shopping.com, PriceGrabber.com, etc.).
Kelkoo and other first-generation ...
Today’s statistics about ecommerce show the devastating impact of the financial crisis. Ecommerce websites have been hit hard and revenue growth has ground to a halt.
Tim Walters at Forrester makes a compelling case for advancing personalization efforts in corporate and ecommerce websites, despite the current recession – and ...
