A recent report by yStats predicts that global online retail sales are expected to reach $1.3 trillion this year. Most markets will experience growth, but the rate of growth will be higher in emerging markets than in established ones. Globally, the rate of online sales growth will reach 20 percent…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) and BABA stock have long been compared to Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) and eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY), but according to Money Morning‘s Executive Editor Bill Patalon, those comparisons are way off. In fact, Patalon says Alibaba is actually more like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)…
Ein Bericht von yStats.com nimmt das globale Wachstum im B2C-Bereich global unter die Lupe und berichtet von einem verlangsamten Wachstum im Online-Handel weltweit. Während Märkte in Nordamerika und Europa stagnieren, bieten sich mit Mobile Shopping und neuen Produktkategorien auch neue Möglichkeiten. Ebenso wachsen die Umsätze in diesem Bereich in aufstrebenden Schwellenländern. Ein…
Unable to ‘try’ before they buy, consumers would never embrace online clothes shopping – or so many retail analysts once argued. Yet according to yStats, apparel is now the biggest e-commerce sector worldwide, the fastest-growing US ecommerce category, and accounts for more than three-quarters of internet sales in China. With…
Over 50% of New Zealand’s adult population buys online, according to a report issued by the market research agency yStats. New Zealand takes advantage of a developed infrastructure which has propelled the country among the top 20 countries worldwide in B2C ecommerce potential despite the island nation’s small population size.…
Hamburg-based business intelligence organization yStats.com’s comprehensive new report on online retail sales worldwide tells of continued growth and trends in the industry. The report, titled “Global B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Market 2014” sees slowing growth rates overall following the vertiginous increases of recent years in North American and Western…
Mauro Bossetti, partner and MD for Synthesis Group Iberia & LATAM, offers an insight into the demand for localised games in Latin America Gaming is global. However, there are some regions still perceived as playing catch-up. Latin America is seen as an emerging gaming market, but to many it’s already…
Investors looking for Chinese stocks to buy in 2014 got an amazing opportunity with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA), the largest IPO in U.S. history, when it started trading Sept. 19. While Alibaba (which is actually based in the Cayman Islands, not China) is the biggest player in the…
Although Australia isn’t the largest market or country in the Asia-Pacific region, it still packs a big punch in e-commerce. yStats.com, researcher and reporter on international market trends, recently published a report regarding the potential growth of the business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce market is the Asia-Pacific region. The report details the…
With Twitter set to unleash a new ‘Buy’ button feature that will apparently offer people the scope to find and buy products directly from a Tweet, we take a look at its foray into mobile shopping, how other tech giants are getting in on the action and the evolving mobile…