Investment in technology for commerce and business operations is tapering off the growth rates of recent years, but there are still significant trends this year for spending on ecommerce and related customer-facing technology systems among B2B as well as retail companies, Forrester Research Inc. says.
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Technology budgets among companies in the United States will grow about 4.2% this year over 2019, down from growth rates of 4.5% in 2019 and 6% in 2018, Forrester says in the report, "2020 to 2021 US Tech Budgets: The Industry Outlook," by Andrew Bartels and other Forrester analysts. Moreover, technology spending by manufacturers—in a slowdown because of international trade matters involving the U.S.-China trade war and the coronavirus outbreak—will increase by only 3% or less.
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LimeLight CRM Rebrands as sticky.io, Extends Ecommerce Order Management and Recurring Billing
Company processed more than $4 billion in client gross merchandise volume in the last 12 months
The rebranding from LimeLight CRM to sticky.io reflects the company's evolution from a customer relationship management solution to a fully integrated, enterprise ecommerce platform built for performance and scalability. The change is effective immediately, and will be reflected in the company's identity, product, services and mission.
Ecommerce in the Netherlands: €25.8 billion in 2019
Ecommerce in the Netherlands was worth 25.8 billion euros last year. This is an increase of 7 percent compared to the situation one year before. The Dutch online retail industry grew mostly because of an increase in online grocery purchases.
IRX 2020: Thrive in the digital world
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Activision hires Google ecommerce, transaction pro as new president | TweakTown
Activision hires ex-Google sales whiz Daniel Alegre as its new president and chief operating officer, the company today announced .
Activision is shaking up its senior leadership. The company just made a very interesting hire with Daniel Alegre, a former Google executive with strong background in ecommerce and sales. Coincidentally, Activision just signed a huge multi-year deal with Google to use its servers to host its online games. Alegre is basically second in command and will report directly to Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick.
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Media and e-commerce brands are top targets for phishing attacks - TechRepublic
For its latest research released on Tuesday, Akamai discovered 1,221 domains, or 1,381 URLs, associated with phishing campaigns during late 2019 and early 2020. More than 20 different brands were used in these campaigns. But the majority of the brands, a full 84%, were from media and e-commerce industries. The rest of the URLs hit companies in the financial, high tech, and dating industries.
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The URLs detected were not directly associated with Akamai customers, though they were still found to be consuming or using resources from them. Akamai's business is as a content delivery network, or CDN, which distributes web content to users based on location and other factors. Akamai highlighted three reasons why web traffic associated with phishing websites are often seen on CDN platforms.
Coronavirus Cuts Smartphone Sales 55% In China. But E-Commerce And Delivery Businesses Are Booming
The 56% drop in February follows a 38.9% drop in January and a 14.7% drop in December. And, truth be told, smartphone sales in China — as in the rest of the world — have been slowing for most of a year now. The last monthly increase was in May of 2019, and that was only 1.2% in the positive.
In circumstances like that, it's not hard to see how shopping and retail sales will be very constrained.
Smartphone manufacturers seem to be responding to the crisis by delaying product launches. China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) says that new product launches are down over 70%.
How Headless Commerce Can Level Playing Field | PYMNTS.com
It's a simple concept, but one that is quickly revolutionizing how consumers buy from eCommerce. It's called headless commerce. Aside from the funny name, technically it's a digital architecture that separates the back end and front end of a retail website to optimize search results, customer experience and the purchase journey. New research says it may be the key to leveling the future eCommerce playing field for Amazon competitors.
Discount Retailers Move Away From eCommerce | PYMNTS.com
If it weren't for a certain pandemic that is dominating most news, the two biggest stories in retail over the past week would have been stunning at any other time. Both of them came from companies that rely on a decidedly old-school business model: brick and mortar. And both of them are turning away from online sales. That's right – no eCommerce .
The first of the two stories came from Burlington , which announced on its last earnings call that it will stop selling its off-priced goods online. From a revenue perspective, it's no big deal. eCommerce represented just 0.5 percent of its $2.2 billion in annual revenue. But it's the thinking behind the move that's noteworthy. Burlington, after all, could have announced it was doubling down on eCommerce to compete with Walmart.
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