Daily Archives: November 28, 2015

Statistics show a record high in mobile shopping, iOS users are leading the frenzy

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The holiday season is almost upon us and with it comes the annual shopping craze and retailers are wasting no time, especially online with deals already flying all over the place. Be it Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday or simply good old-fashioned Christmas shopping it is no secret that an increasing number of us are doing an ever-growing portion of our shopping online and as it turns out, this year people are reaching for their smartphones for online bargains more than ever before.

The first set of numbers comes courtesy of Adobe, which has been monitoring around 4,500 sites, including 80% of the top 100 e-tailers over the past few frantic shopping days. It turns out, from a total of $2.72 billion spent on Black Friday and $1.73 billion on Thanksgiving, a whopping $1.6 billion were wired via a smartphone. Mobile devices are still not as popular as PC’s for online purchases, but these numbers show a huge increase over last year. According to IBM, 60% of all online traffic on Thanksgiving was via mobile devices and 54.4% on Black Friday. That is a yearly increase of 14.8% and 16.6%, respectively. As for actuals sales, the same statistic says 40% were completed via a tablet or phone on Thanksgiving and around 35.5% on Black Friday.

Overall, smartphones continue to be the device of choice, outweighing tablets with about 23.9% of all registered sales, compared to 16.1%, so we seem to favor portability over a bigger screen. And another study, conducted by Custora’s E-Commerce Pulse on more than 200 online retailers claims that iOS devices amount for a lot more sales than their Android cousin. According to the numbers, iPad and iPhone orders this Thanksgiving made up 78.3% of all mobile purchases. This is about 1.6 percent down from last year, but still overwhelmingly more than the 21.5% Android users tallied up.

It is also interesting to note that while overall sales, mobile or otherwise, have risen year-over-year as well, the average value per order has dropped. So, we are definitely ordering more, but paying a bit less for each purchase. Also, it comes as no surprise that iOS users generate more than 3.6 times the commercial online revenue of Android users.

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UN Climate Change Conference: The Babel Tower Comes To Paris

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When I began teaching as Visiting Professor in the MBA program at the University of Hong Kong in February 2012 I had entitled the course “Asia in the New Global Order”. At the first class one of the students asked, “Order? What Order?” Good point, I noted, and the course was re-titled “Asia in the New Global Disorder”. It is the title that has been used in Hong Kong since, but also of the courses I have been teaching at NIIT University in Rajasthan, India, and the theme for my Forbes blog.

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Best Buy Offering Two New Xbox One/ HDTV Deals

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Black Friday may be over in the most strict sense, but as we all know, America’s annual shopping holiday has a way of stretching out over a week and a half at least. Best Buy’s Friday deal on a 40-inch HDTV and an Xbox One for $499.99 was one of the steepest discounts on any console yesterday, and now the retailer is offering two more HDTV/Xbox One bundles for anyone who happens to be in the market for a new screen and something to do with it. The first features the Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Xbox one Bundle along with a 55 inch 4K Samsung TV for $999.98 for a listed savings of $550, the second a 55 inch Samsung HDTV and the same Xbox One bundle for a listed savings of $420.

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The Future Of Work Isn’t Just About Big Technology Companies

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Many times when we (myself included) speak about  the future of work, the conversations tend to skew toward larger companies. However, the reality is that smaller companies are actually poised to do quite well when we think about the changing workplace. They can move fast and are agile when it comes to change. Smaller organizations are able to get access to the same type of technologies that were once reserved for larger companies, they can find the best talent by utilizing the freelancer economy to help drive and shape their business, and they can do a much better job of  avoiding office politics and bureaucracy.  

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Bitcoin Exchange ‘Ramps-Up’ OBITS Cryptocurrency Profits For Future Buyback

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The cryptocurrency exchange behind the recently launched OBITS currency initiative, CCEDK, is increasing the future payouts derived from profits and fees generated through user registrations on OpenLedger and other associated revenues – including profits from a start-up ‘crypto’ casino project. As a sweetener over Black Friday it is offering the same Friday price this Saturday.

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Astroquizzical: What Could Be Low In The Sky And Flashing Many Colors?

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I live on the east coast of the US (NJ). I noticed in August about 10pm looking ESE a star that was pulsing bright colors. It looked like an LED toy light flashing red, green, blue, red, white and yellow in very rapid succession. It was low in the sky and it is there every night I look. Please explain.

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