Anti-trust questions prove that Congress is serious about this topic. But in the meantime, the same tech companies keep reporting record profits. Shareholders are happy. Congress is not. Life goes on... Listen now on your favorite podcast platform: Apple [...]
MGR eCommerce Edge Weekly | July 29, 2020 Top News This Week Who Will Win the Social Commerce Space and What Platforms Should You Watch For? First, let's address what is the difference between social commerce, and social media [...]
The airline industry is in trouble unless they can fill their planes. Parents don't know if their children will or should go back to school this fall, and retailers are considering canceling in-store Black Friday sales events and replacing [...]
MGR eCommerce Edge Weekly | July 22, 2020 Top News This Week Walmart & Other Retailers are Reducing Black Friday Plans, May Even Cancel Altogether Retailers are reducing and possibly cancelling their in-store Black Friday plans as they are [...]
This time, it's Twitter that is in trouble. We discuss the recent hack of high-profile Twitter accounts, was it an inside job? Then we move on to the situation with the USA and Global economy. Manuel ends with his [...]
MGR eCommerce Edge Weekly | July 15, 2020 Top News This Week Walmart Launches Walmart+ for $98/year Competing with Amazon Prime Walmart has finally launched its own Amazon Prime competitor, called Walmart+. The program will cost $98/year (vs $119/year [...]
In this episode, we discuss the banning of TikTok in India, Hong Kong and possibly soon in the US. Each government claiming that it's a matter of national security. Walmart launches its own Prime service. Plus David's "Rant [...]
In this episode, we go over our predictions for the second half of the year. The first half has been... well, not what anyone expected when we rang in the New Year six months ago. So let's try it [...]
MGR eCommerce Edge Weekly | June 30, 2020 Top News This Week Uber Buying Postmates? Could They Form the Logistics Company to Rule Them All? Uber is reportedly attempting to acquire Postmates for $2.8 Billion. This merger could be [...]
Join Manuel and David as they talk about the Future of Livestreaming: The Most Important Battleground No One is Talking About. And how will livestreaming shape the future of social commerce? Listen now on your favorite podcast platform: [...]
MGR eCommerce Edge Weekly | June 23, 2020 Top News This Week The Future of Livestreaming: The Most Important Battleground No One is Talking About The battles to own the platforms and audiences of the future are never ending, [...]
In this episode, we cover the new partnership between Shopify and Walmart, retail sales growth in May, online advertising costs keep increasing and the EU wants to tax American tech giants. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform: [...]
MGR eCommerce Edge Weekly | June 17, 2020 Top News This Week Shopify and Walmart Announce Marketplace Partnership The Shopify news over the past two months has been relentless, and this week they've dropped another bomb. Shopify and Walmart [...]
Today we discussed where we expect eCommerce to be headed for the rest of 2020 and into 2021, then we discuss the fall of retail and malls, and we finish with our thoughts on what we think will happen [...]
MGR eCommerce Edge Weekly | June 10, 2020 Top News This Week Facebook Launches Built in Email Marketing + How Will Retail Come Back? Facebook quietly launched its own built in email marketing tool yesterday. The tool seems to [...]
