Retail investors and the investing-curious give Reddit a push: Thanks to January's meme-stock craze, the 16-year-old platform's user growth helped fuel increases in ad revenue, which will help the company dive into international expansion and video.
About a third of K-12 students have already returned to class amid a fourth COVID-19 wave. While, earlier this year, analysts had predicted a very optimistic back-to-school (BTS) season for retailers and brands, not all is lost: Many parents still want to make school-related firsts and rites of passage as “normal” as possible for their children.
The new suite of credit cards could help Synchrony bolster its pandemic recovery by tapping into a top spend segment while entrenching itself as a major player for online-focused co-brand cards.
Twitter’s move toward greater accessibility causes issues: The social platform’s new layout helps users with low vision but makes it harder for some to tweet
Alcohol ecommerce is a sector to watch: Evolving consumption habits, new entrants, and antitrust concerns increase the category's intrigue.
Consumer sentiment drops to lowest level in a decade: Amid concerns over the delta variant, inflation, and hiring, consumer sentiment fall to below its early pandemic lows.
Retail social commerce is already a multibillion dollar industry in the US, having earned $26.97 billion in sales in 2020. That figure will more than double by 2023, when we predict retail social commerce earnings will hit $56.17 billion.
Delivery drones take flight
Savvy marketing could improve trust of online-only brands: Though ecommerce has boomed in the past year, consumers don't trust brands only available online.
With Pay Later, SMBs can apply for short-term loans and pay them in equal installments—helping Veem carve out a piece of the BNPL market through B2B payments.
Freeing the market from Amazon: Latin American ecommerce giant Mercado Libre is on the rise after strategic investments in Mexico pay off.
Il Makiage's bet on AI imaging could set it apart from competitors: The cosmetics upstart makes a major acquisition to double down on product recommendations and customer experience.