Posts Categorized: Ecommerce

Under the hood: How Chrome’s ad filtering works

Posted by & filed under Advertisement, Collaborative filtering, Ecommerce, Google.

While most advertising on the web is respectful of user experience, over the years we’ve increasingly heard from our users that some advertising can be particularly intrusive. As we announced last June, Chrome will tackle this issue by removing ads from sites that do not follow the Better Ads Standards. Source: Chromium Blog Date: February 23rd, 2018 Link: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-works.html Discussion… Read more »

Amazon leans into tipping point for online apparel

Posted by & filed under Amazon, Ecommerce.

The outlook for physical retailers is grim, the sector roiled by store closings, layoffs and bankruptcies. This year, Amazon will surpass Macy’s, which last year announced it would shut 100 stores, to become the largest seller of apparel in America, by several analysts’ estimates. It is looking at ways to keep expanding, too. Amazon is… Read more »

Tech boom marks revival in fortune for Ontario government

Posted by & filed under App Economy, Ecommerce, Emerging Technologies.

Computer-design and related jobs rose 26 per cent in Ontario over the past five years to 162,000 in 2016, driving a 13 per cent increase in technology-services employment, as manufacturing fell 2.9 per cent over the same period, according to Statistics Canada. Job growth in computer-design was even faster than the 16 per cent increase… Read more »

Sorry, But Amazon Isn’t Actually Annihilating Retail Jobs

Posted by & filed under Amazon, Automation, Ecommerce.

There is a problem with much of the current rhetoric claiming that the automation of industry is leading to the annihilation of jobs and/or the enslavement of humanity. Source: Wired Magazine Date: March 1st, 2017 Link: https://www.wired.com/2017/03/sorry-amazon-isnt-actually-annihilating-retail-jobs/ Discussion 1) “By 2016 e-commerce comprised just 8.3 percent ($102.7 billion) of the total retail market ($1.2 trillion). While that’s a big… Read more »

Trump Can’t Stop the Globalization of Work—the Internet Will See to That

Posted by & filed under Apple, Competitive advantage, Consumer Technology, Ecommerce, Ethical Issues, IT and Politics.

DONALD TRUMP IS promising to make America great again by keeping others out. That approach is already undermining the smidgen of tentative good will he had enjoyed from the tech industry. As a strategy for keeping jobs in the US, it’s also fatally flawed. Turns out that in a world connected by the internet, isolationism… Read more »

These conveyor belts are a trip

Posted by & filed under Consumer Technology, Ecommerce.

=16 These Intralox conveyor belts are just fascinating to watch. Source: YouTube Date: November 1st, 2016 Link to video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLYhhV7u7Y&list=PLKfWL8IXgKBte4TfD53pLaHONfSYCX0RH&index=16 Discussion 1) As amazing as this is to just watch, what practical applications can you think of that could use this technology? 2) How might Amazon use this technology?

Now Competing To Be The Master Of Your Domain: Squarespace

Posted by & filed under domains, e-payment, Ecommerce, godaddy, marketing, online business, squarespace.

Description: Squarespace’s newest product offering takes direct aim at domain registrars like GoDaddy. Source: Fast Company Date: April 15, 2016 Squarespace and a handful of companies like Wix and WordPress parent Automattic serve as the 800-pound gorillas of the website hosting and content worlds. Now Squarespace is looking to take on GoDaddy and other web domain… Read more »

BuildDirect Wants To Become The Amazon Of The Home Improvement Industry

Posted by & filed under Amazon, Analytics, business models, Ecommerce, market intelligence.

Description: BuildDirect is an online marketplace for buying home improvement products. Today, the company is opening its platform to third-party sellers with the launch of its Home Marketplace. Source: TechCrunch Date: February 11, 2016 Unsurprisingly, selling heavyweight products like flooring and roofing materials online takes a very different approach to logistics than selling books. As BuildDirect’s… Read more »