How much spending goes online when you take away the travel bookings part? According to a study conducted by Comscore, the growth of retail eCommerce spending that excludes travel-bookings has been slowing down over the years. This is how the growth has been – In the second quarter of 2007, retail eCommerce grew 23% year-over-year. [...]

eCommerce in India is more or less the same as online travel. A study by Visa last year showed that all the three top categories in online shopping was related to travel booking. And one of the biggest companies to benefit from this is state-owned IRCTC which is responsible for booking the train tickets in [...]

Virtual goods are growing to become a massive economy in itself. Several companies including Facebook, SecondLife and game developers like Zynga are banking on the power of virtual goods to make money from their products. According to a recent study conducted by PlaySpan, 13% of online consumers have purchased a virtual good and close to [...]

Comscore conducted a study of digital music download among mobile phone users in five major European markets : UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The results are interesting. While iTunes continues to be a major force, there is some serious competition from Nokia Music Store that is now used by close to one-fourth of all [...]

The Western Europe region has been the leader when it comes to retail e-commerce sales. According to a report on e-Marketer, while Great Britain has traditionally been an ecommerce hotspot, other regions are increasing their contribution over time. France and Germany are among countries in this list and they have performed better than Italy and [...]

A recent study by Coda Research agency has revealed that mobile eCommerce in the US shall grow at a compounded rate of 65% between 2009 and 2015. According to this study, mobile phones will constitute 8.5% of all eCommerce revenues in the US. Here is an estimate of the value of mobile commerce in absolute [...]

Have you ever purchased any product through your mobile phone? I have not. A recent study conducted by Retrevo concludes that mobile phones are getting increasingly popular among the younger generation to research on products, they are yet to transform as a mobile shopping medium in a great way. As must be evident, people above [...]

One of the most interesting aspects about owning an online store is that many of the things that go with running an ecommerce shop may be outsourced – The back-end can be run with third party software, the payment gateway need not be your own, outsource the marketing and SEO to agencies dedicated to the [...]

eCommerce is truly taking over traditional retail stores in many segments like books, apparels and software. However, there is still a far way to go in segments such as health where sales through conventional retail stores is way bigger than online sales. Here are some numbers revealed by the US Census Bureau Books and Magazines [...]

Frauds in online commerce appear to be on the wane. This is according to a study published by CyberSource. According to the study, total revenues lost in 2009 due to online fraud was $3.3 billion – a 17.5% drop from the $4 billion recorded in 2008. Here are the estimated revenues lost due to ecommerce [...]