Criteo S.A. announces the launch of Criteo App Install, which now creates the most powerful independent full-stack mobile solution.

Contrary to the traditional approach of starting with a desktop site and then adapting it to smaller screens, a “mobile-first” approach involves designing a desktop site starting with the mobile version, which is then adapted to larger screens. A mobile-first approach generally means building your website with your mobile users in mind, with the main goal of improving these mobile users’ experience.

The willingness to share data depends for most consumers on many different aspects: for example, they want to know what type of data they should provide and how they should be stored. The reasons for data disclosure, whether data sharing with third parties takes place, or the possibility of deletion of data at any time is also of interest.

Criteo just released findings showing that brand loyalty is up for grabs when it comes to Singaporean consumers. The company’s ‘Why We Buy’ survey revealed that 78% are willing to consider shopping from a new brand across all product categories. ‘Groceries’ (95.8%) and ‘Apparel’ (93.4%) are the top two categories where consumers are willing to do so.

The leading Amazon analysis software, Egrow has announced the addition of a new SEO tool for Marketplace sellers. The new Keyword Rank Tracker tool, which has been integrated into the popular Egrow software, extends the already vast range of sales and marketing solutions offered by the all-in-one, comprehensive service for listing optimization and product promotion.

As part of its strategy, ZTE Corporation, a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and enterprise technology solutions, is committed to providing customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value as the telecommunications and information technology sectors converge.

Companies increasingly focus on automation in customer service and after-sales, meaning that past actions by users can be machine-evaluated in order to derive probabilities for future actions, since they must be resource-saving and, above all, can no longer process the huge amount of service requests personally that are coming from different devices of the customers. Depending on the complexity, individual measures can be triggered automatically: e.g. the chat window opens at the right time, emails arrive at the right moment with the appropriate content - or customer care picks up the listener personally if the customer has a problem. Certainly, personal conversations remain indispensable. The process behind it leverages predictive analytics and, through its use, enables the creation of a good customer relationship, as available capacity

Xandr, AT&T’s advertising and analytics company, and iflix, Southeast Asia’s leading entertainment service, announced that iflix’s brand solutions business, iflix Advertising, will adopt Xandr Monetize, Xandr’s strategic selling platform. As a result of the agreement, advertisers gain access to iflix’s premium brand-safe video inventory and highly-engaged audiences at-scale.

Socialbakers announced ithe enhancment of its marketing solutions by including paid social media oversight and control across multiple ad accounts into Socialbakers Paid Analytics.

As brands are shifting more budget to social media advertising, it becomes paramount that the budget owners gain a clear understanding of their advertising investment. According to Socialbakers, the process is currently plagued with inefficiencies - from the lack of insight into multiple ad accounts, managed across regions and teams, to the insecure way data is stored and shared between stakeholders.

Qlik, a leader in data analytics, just announced Qlik Sense Business, its latest offering supporting its cloud-first, SaaS strategy. The new product is the first and only pure SaaS offering that brings the power of the 3rd generation of data and analytics to small businesses and groups, accelerating their journey to modern analytics more quickly and with greater ROI than any other offering in the market.

In recent years, developments have taken place that are dramatically changing the role of stationary retail, putting it under pressure and questioning its right to exist.

Microsoft announced the global debut of a retail solution that empowers consumers to make informed purchase decisions amidst the myriad of options available online and offline.

The solution, called Microsoft Synchronized Shopping, is one expression of Microsoft’s broader retail reimagined strategy aimed at simplifying the consumer journey by leveraging intelligent cloud technology.

Hardly anyone abstains from checking the smartphone at least once a day, not to mention that our little all-around gadgets are used for tasks like shopping, booking restaurants or whole vacation trips, always assisting us in life. In fact, the phone feature is rarely used, since the communication preferences of the younger generation in particular focuses more on chatting than speaking. This trend has of course an impact on businesses and there is no reason to assume that it is different in B2B compared to the B2C industry.

The idea of sitting down at the desk and powering up a PC to log-in to the Internet already seems a thing of the past nowadays, although Apple launched the first iPhone just 10 years ago, ushering in the age of the mobile Internet.