August 11, 2015 Insight Report Premium July 2015 US Same-Store SalesThe five-week July period had 28 selling days both this year and last year.
August 7, 2015 Analyst Corner Register for Free Access Weekly Insights Aug 7 2015This week, FBIC attended the inaugural RISE tech conference in Hong Kong, hosting 525 start-ups and 5,000 attendees over two days
August 5, 2015 Insight Report Premium Stich Fix A Personal Styling E-Tailer for EveryoneStich Fix provides seamless and personalized style service based on information obtained via a 10-minute style survey
August 4, 2015 Insight Report 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.
August 2, 2015 Insight Report 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.
July 31, 2015 Analyst Corner Register for Free Access Weekly Insights Jul 31, 2015UK general merchandise retailer Argos claims to be the first British retailer to generate £1 billion in annual m-commerce sales.
July 28, 2015 Deep Dive 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.
July 24, 2015 Analyst Corner Register for Free Access Weekly Insights Jul 24, 2015Jet.com made a splash with its public launch this week, offering free six-month trial memberships and prices it claims are 10–15% cheaper than those from other e-commerce companies
July 20, 2015 Insight Report 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.
July 20, 2015 Insight Report 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).
July 17, 2015 Analyst Corner Register for Free Access Weekly Insights Jul 17, 2015This week, the FBIC Global Retail & Technology team followed Amazon Prime Day around the clock
July 15, 2015 Insight Report 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.
July 15, 2015 Insight Report 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.
July 15, 2015 Insight Report 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.
July 14, 2015 Insight Report 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.
