shopping
- Technology
Instagram to end live shopping feature on March 16
San Francisco: Social media platform Instagram has announced that it will discontinue its live shopping feature, which allows users to tag products in their live broadcasts on March 16. “Beginning on March…
- Technology
YouTube starts testing shopping features on Shorts
San Francisco: YouTube has started testing new shopping features on its short-video platform Shorts, along with affiliate marketing. According to TechCrunch, the new shopping features will allow users to buy products as…
- Technology
TikTok begins testing in-app shopping feature
San Francisco: Chinese short-form video platform TikTok has started testing its in-app shopping feature, which will allow users to make purchases directly inside the application. The new feature has begun to roll…
- Technology
40% of Indians defrauded while shopping online during festive season
New Delhi: Around 40 per cent of Indians surveyed have been defrauded when shopping online during festive season, finds a study. The study was conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of…
- Lifestyle
Diwali sales in Hyderabad: Check list of offers, deals
Hyderabad: The festival of lights ‘Diwali’ is around the corner, and most of us have already started prepping up for the celebrations with enthusiasm. We have a Diwali gift for those who…
- Technology
Flipkart partners with eDAO to launch virtual shopping experience in metaverse
Bengaluru, Oct 17 (IANS) Homegrown e-commerce platform Flipkart on Monday announced that it has partnered with Polygon-incubated organisation eDAO to launch Flipverse — a metaverse space where consumers can discover products in…
- Business
Amazon brings live shopping via content creators to India
Bengaluru: Amazon on Friday rolled out its live commerce feature ‘Amazon Live’ in India where customers can directly interact with content creators and social media influencers and buy products from links provided…
- Technology
Shopping on Twitter can bring ‘individual or societal harm’ to users
New Delhi: Twitter shopping, which allows brands to list items for sale and tag products at the top of a merchant’s profile, has content moderation risks and can lead to ‘individual or…
- Business
Snapdeal to go live on govt’s ONDC network next month
New Delhi: E-commerce platform Snapdeal is set to debut on the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-type initiative of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, next month.…
- Technology
New Amazon shopping cart lets users scan & pay to skip checkout lines
San Francisco: Amazon on Tuesday unveiled an updated smart Dash Cart — a shopping cart that helps users scan and pay for their purchases and skip the checkout line. In September 2020,…
- Technology
Apple captures half of all smartphones sold during Chinese online fest
Beijing: Apple captured half of smartphones sold in China during the 6.18 online shopping festival, at the expense of Chinese brands Xiaomi and Honor. According to new research from Strategy Analytics, 14…
- Technology
Amazon suffers outage with error messages for thousands of shoppers
New Delhi: Amazon went down for thousands of users for a couple of hours as the e-commerce portal pages did not load at all, displayed error messages, or loaded slowly with missing…
- Technology
Twitter testing new shopping feature ‘Product Drops’
San Francisco: Microblogging site Twitter is testing a new shopping feature — Product Drops — that will preview upcoming product releases from different merchants. The new feature lets brands tease items before…
- India
Myntra EORS 16 set to serve 50 lakh shoppers between June 11-16
Bengaluru: Myntra has announced that its 16th edition of biannual EORS, India’s grandest fashion event, is arriving for millions of fashion aficionados in the country and the company is gearing to serve…
- Technology
Pinterest acquires AI shopping startup ‘The Yes’
New Delhi: Photo sharing social media platform Pinterest has acquired AI-powered shopping startup ‘The Yes’ for an undisclosed sum. THE YES was founded in 2018 by CEO Julie Bornstein, an ecommerce and…
