by Celine Matthiessen | May 15, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Conferences, Mobile-Social, SMBs
Smartphones are used by just about everyone, and they’re being used to make offline buying decisions. In fact, more than 50% of all retail purchases are influenced by mobile, according to the National Retail Federation, and that’s not just paid...
by BIA Advisory Group | Feb 15, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social
Comscore’s 2016 Retail eCommerce announced it’s 2016 total U.S. sales results this week. Overall, the eCommerce share of U.S. retail sales amounts to just eight percent. As GDP grows, retail’s total sales have dwarfed eCommerce’s growth,...
by BIA Advisory Group | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog, Mobile-Social
Despite the tech media’s adoration for eCommerce, roughly 93 percent of U.S. retail spending happens in the offline physical world. But it’s increasingly influenced by digital means. This is the topic of a recent panel we ran. The question then becomes, what’s...
by BIA Advisory Group | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog, Mobile-Social, SMBs
Gartner Inc. this week released a very bullish report on the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), the class of computational networked devices that are automating and animating consumer lives through voice assistance and personal tracking devices, such as the Apple...
by BIA Advisory Group | Jan 10, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, Newspapers
AirBnB, the home and apartment on-demand rental service, said yesterday it will lead a $13 million investment in Resy, a New York-based restaurant reservation service founded by entrpreneurs Gary Vaynerchuk, Ben Leventhal and Michael Montero. All have deep online...
