Amazon announced to buy the high-end organic grocery Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods counts 430 locations and it's strategic as both companies have a hard time competing head-on with mainstream grocery Walmart on their own. The acquisition is expected to…
Based on the Icecat sample of connected webshops in Q1 2017, the most popular standard webshop software platforms are Magento Commerce (9%), PrestaShop (8%) and VirtueMart/Joomla (4%). PrestaShop made relatively more progress, over the past years, than its contenders, and…
At the end of March, Amazon announced its acquisition of Souq.com, the leading e-commerce platform in the Middle East, for around 650 million US dollar. Souq.com operates in a geography of 50 million consumers and has just 2% share in…
