Ecommerce Club Blog

25th July 2023

A rare pair of Apple trainers is being sold by auction house Sotheby’s for £38,969. The shoes were custom-made for employees only in the 1990s and were a one-time giveaway at a conference. A pair have never been sold to the public before. The white trainers have a standout detail which is the old rainbow… Read more »

25th July 2023

Chinese-owned video streaming app TikTok says it will offer text-only posts as competition between social media giants heats up. The new feature gives users another way to express themselves. Earlier this month, TikTok launched a new music streaming service to rival platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. Last week, Elon Musk’s Twitter ditched its famous… Read more »

22nd June 2023

One of the UK’s oldest shops is set for a technology makeover after Marks and Spencer announced a new partnership with Microsoft. The computing giant will be working with M&S to bring its AI technologies into the company’s stores and customer experiences, helping transform the 134-year-old institution into a “Digital First” retailer. A team of… Read more »

22nd June 2023

  Australia’s cyber watchdog has called for Twitter, to explain its handling of online hate. The country’s online safety commissioner says Twitter has become one of the most complained about platforms, Twitter has 28 days to respond to the regulator or face potential fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read more at BBC  

21st June 2023

Shop Pay, the checkout service of Shopify, is expanding and now includes retailers not in the platform as well.  According to the e-commerce platform, turning Shop Pay into a part of the commerce process will enable corporate users to “upgrade their customer experience without having to rip up and replace all of their commerce infrastructure”. This will… Read more »

20th June 2023

Small and medium-sized businesses now have new flexible financial programme to rely on at Amazon.  This new system is based on companies’ sales. It will allow small and medium-sized businesses to “repay as they earn” according to their performances, but also to create a new flexible option to generate greater cash-flow flexibility for UK-based businesses.… Read more »

14th June 2023

Taimi the fully inclusive queer dating app, has announced a partnership with DICE the ticketing and live event discovery platform. Together they aim to revolutionize the way the queer community connects, combining the convenience of online dating with the thrill of real-life experiences. The partnership will see the app send gig recommendations to users who… Read more »

9th June 2023

Digital the Economy Index took a detailed look at how social media platforms drive traffic to eCommerce websites, and how newer platforms like TikTok continue to eat away at the share of social media traffic of the more established players, like Facebook and Instagram. UK consumers spent a total of £7.8bn online in May 2023, down… Read more »

8th June 2023

Advertising really does make a difference… Twitch is scrapping its own new advertising rules, after backlash that saw streamers leave the platform. The Amazon-owned live-streaming service originally said it would restrict the size and type of ads used by streamers who create content on Twitch. Doing this would have substantially reduced the ways in which streamers… Read more »

3rd June 2023

Very few people can say they’ve raced against Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel and won. However, Lucas Blakeley can. He’s also a racing superstar.  As a Scottish esports athlete he can usually be found on the virtual track – although his victory over Vettel was in a real car. The pair’s Race of Champions face-off in January was the… Read more »

3rd June 2023

 Some of the more powerful artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems may eventually have to be banned, a member of the government’s AI Council says.  Marc Warner, also boss of Faculty AI, spoke to the BBC about how AGI needed strong transparency and audit requirements as well as more inbuilt safety technology and over the next six months… Read more »

9th May 2023

Elon Musk has announced that Twitter plan to remove accounts left dormant for years as he says it’s important to free up abandoned handles. The move has been criticised online, as people feared losing access to accounts of relatives who had died. Musk hinted this may be avoided, as old accounts would be archived rather… Read more »