Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 4, 2015 Premium INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING WITH SCREEMOWe recently met with Yonatan Zur, a cofounder of Israeli start-up Screemo. The company has built a platform that allows brands to easily create interactive mobile-to-screen experiences that improve customer engagement. Zur was in Hong Kong for the inaugural RISE conference taking place July 31–August 1, and he spent some time with us to tell us about Screemo’s technology and solutions. Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 2, 2015 Premium Automating the Interview Process with IntervyoWe met with Jacky Hazan, Founder and CEO of Intervyo, an Israeli startup that aims to automate the interview process for businesses. Hazan was in Hong Kong for the inaugural RISE conference taking place July 31–August 1, and he spent some time with us to tell us about Intervyo’s recruiting solution and the technology behind it.Read More
Product TypeDeep Dive Product TypeDeep Dive | July 28, 2015 Premium Connected Cars: A Mobile Device CruisingAutomobiles are logically the next devices to be connected to the Internet, since we spend so much time in them and want connectivity everywhere. They will function as nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT), which is forecasted to encompass 50 billion devices by 2020.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 20, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #4: Moment of the truth… recap“Thank you to the hundreds of thousands of new members who signed up on Prime Day, and our tens of millions of existing members for making our first ever Prime Day a huge success,” said Greg Greeley, Vice President of Amazon Prime, at the conclusion of Amazon’s inaugural Prime Day 24-hour super sale.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 20, 2015 Premium Jet.com: The Stealth Fighter with Amazon Squarely in Its SightsThere’s a new e-commerce startup in town—by the name of Jet.com—that’s poised to give Amazon some competition by combining the membership approach of Costco, the broad retail category coverage of Amazon, and some innovative analytics for computing pricing and shipping. The Jet.com team is extremely familiar with Amazon’s competitive advantages as well as its weaknesses, since Jet.com‘s CEO Marc Lore worked at Amazon for a couple of years after it acquired his startup (Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com).Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #3: AS THE DAY comes to the end…FBIC’s global team has been tracking Amazon Prime Day and its “lighting deals” around the clock today. Since midnight PDT, FBIC team members in Hong Kong, the UK and the US have been following Amazon’s global sites, social media outlets and media responses. Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #2: AS THE DAY GOES ON…FBIC Global Retail & Technology is tracking Amazon Prime Day live. The sales event is a global shopping day exclusively for Amazon Prime members who have been promised new deals every 10 minutes through the day on July 15.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #1: Launch UpdateThere was certainly a lot of hype surrounding the launch of Amazon's Prime Day, the big online sales day that the company announced on July 6 and which we previewed in our "Amazon Prime Day" report on July 14.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 14, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day PreviewLast week, Amazon announced that it is designating July 15 as Prime Day, set merely 6 days before its potential strong competitor jet.com’s July 21 launch date. Amazon Prime Day will be a global shopping event exclusively for Amazon Prime members who will be able to shop new deals offered every 10 minutes. Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 7, 2015 Premium Altar’d State Store ProfileAltar’d State is a retailer with a social conscience rooted in Christianity. The private company was cofounded by two former Goody’s employees, Aaron Walters and Brian Mason, a little over six years ago with the expressed goal to “fill a gap in the retail industry and change the world for the better.”Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 6, 2015 Premium Grana July 6, 2015Founded by Australian entrepreneur Luka Grana in 2013, Grana is a Hong Kong–based online apparel retailer offering wardrobe essentials with luxury-quality fabrics at affordable prices. Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 1, 2015 Premium Nanotechnology: The Next SmallExecutive Summary The world is indeed getting smaller. Nanotech was a buzzword at the turn of the millennium, however nanomaterials and nanoparticles are now in the everyday products we put on our faces and bodies, and they’re also hiding in our automobiles and smartphones. Nanotechnology has been silently transforming innovation in numerous sectors, including textiles, personal care, energy, healthcare and electronics, and it’s increasingly attracting worldwide attention thanks to its wide range of end uses. Nanomaterials come in all shapes and sizes: particles, tubes, spheres and quantum dots. Despite their small size, these materials have large surface areas, and they can haveRead More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 1, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Now Is Here Now!Amazon UK has brought its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, to London. Over in the States, shoppers in 14 metropolitan areas are already able to get their hands on Amazon purchases within an hour. We have tried this service and were very impressed! Now, Londoners too can get their goods delivered within 60 minutes of placing an order on the dedicated Prime Now app. The service is offered across 57 central London postcode areas, from Bow in the East End to Park Lane in the West.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | June 25, 2015 Premium PRIMARK PRIMED FOR THE USPrimark is about much more than price; it delivers value for money in the broader sense. It has a fast-fashion element in its apparel offer, and its newer flagship stores are impressive retail destinations.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | June 11, 2015 Premium May 2015 US Same-Store SalesThe four-week May period had 27 selling days this year and last year, reflecting Memorial Day in the US and Victoria Day in Canada.Read More
