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It's no secret that consumers flock to Amazon for their online shopping needs; last year, the e-commerce giant accounted for more than 40 percent of all digital revenue, while overall sales have grown year after year. Let's look at three questions every brand should ask to help determine if selling ...

Gamification places game-design elements such as gaining trophies, progressing to new levels, or gaining virtual currencies, into a non-traditional gaming context. This is aspect of app-based education technology and provides students with fun and unique ways to test their knowledge.

Nowadays almost anyone can launch a business online. If you have a great product and an effective marketing strategy, you're on track to build a large customer base and make profits. At some point you might need to carry out a valuation of your business. Let's explore what that involves.

Many financial services are already in the marketplace preparing for what has been classified as a cashless society. The push for this transition is not only coming from germ-fearing shoppers and front-line store workers. Businesses are also driving the trend to pay without paper money.

Regardless of all the buzz and activity around crypto, some demographics are still just not ready to veer away from what's familiar. Even though there is apprehension, many still understand that things are changing and that they must get on board or be left behind. For those who are not prepared for...

IT security firm NeoSystems last week announced it would host a panel of experts from the private and public sectors Tuesday centered around the cybersecurity implications of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. TechNewsWorld sat in on the Zoom-delivered panel discussion.

Automation will claim more than 11 million U.S. jobs over the next decade, according to a new report by Forrester. That's the bad news. The good news is that at the same time automation will create 9.63 million new jobs, for a net job loss for the period of 1.42 million jobs. The report noted that f...

A move by Equifax to enable buy now, pay later vendors to report their customers' "pay-in-four" loans to the credit rating agency could dampen consumer enthusiasm for the popular payment method.

During the first two years of the global pandemic, U.S. consumers spent US$1.7 trillion online, $609 billion more than the previous two years, according to an economic report released Tuesday by Adobe. More spending is to come in 2022, with Adobe forecasting shoppers will spend more than $1 trillion...

Shopping cart and checkout abandonment occurs millions of times daily for online retailers. Let's cover how to measure and improve these e-commerce abandonment issues using 'cartalytics'.

Internal documents recently leaked by a member of the Conti ransomware group reveal the gang's status as a multi-layered business organization. These chat logs present a deep dive into the gang's revenue numbers, leaders, recruiting practices and operations, and victims.

The ongoing tech real estate boom shows vendors planting their flags in smaller cities where home prices are more affordable, and commuting is less a gladiatorial sport. Studies suggest that much of the higher salaries people command in big cities gets eaten up in housing costs, so moving to smaller...

A surge in the use of the new marketing channel called social commerce requires online retailers to adapt their selling strategies to succeed. For that new marketing platform to get results for sellers, however, brands must recognize that traditional e-commerce and social media marketing are not the...

Facebook, Twitter and Google have made moves to prevent their platforms from being weaponized by purveyors of misinformation about the crisis in Ukraine. At the same time, Elon Musk has activated his Starlink satellite internet service over the country and has begun sending the hardware citizens wil...