the first pure-play cross-border retailers in China to develop a Mini Program. WeChat WeChat’s social commerce model is not entirely unique to China; over the past two years, Instagram has...

...“Digital commerce is poised to explode,” with mobile expected to comprise as much as 15 percent of e-commerce sales this year. About half the daily traffic that Gilt sees comes...

...their phones to record seemingly everything, a countertrend—determination to better live in the moment—is building, observes The New York Times. -More people are turning to social clubs to find the...

according to The New York Times . – McKinsey Quarterly surveys China’s social media landscape. -MIT’s Technology Review spotlights how fast-growing mobile social networks in Africa are challenging Facebook. –GigaOM’s...

...consumers interacting with a brand via natural language, a growing trend that was dubbed “conversational commerce” in a Medium piece earlier this year by Chris Messina, a user interface expert...

–Bloomberg explores Instagram’s master classes that teach fashion and beauty executives about social commerce and how they can bridge the gap between retail and Instagram. –i-D describes how menswear is...

...has previously been called “WeWork for retail” and “the physical embodiment of a lifestyle blog.” Decisions about what to display are driven by social media trends and popular blogs. For...

...a $1 billion sale to Unilever this week. –I’m Blue: Well + Good discusses why blue algae “lattes” are Australia’s hottest health trend. –Tinder Social moves the app towards social...

A new wave of technology companies is finally—some would say inevitably—getting into the mobile commerce game. Instagram and Pinterest have both recently launched “buy buttons.” Even Google, which has long...

...Marketer assesses the state of mobile commerce. -New data shows deepening engagement with mobile devices, as MediaPost reports. -Companies are reworking their social media strategies, focusing on quality, not quantity...