24 Million of Clients Data Exposed after Hacker Attack on Zappos.com
After the Christmas’ sales, Zappos.com got a surprise. The company that focuses on clothing and shoes –purchased by Amazon on 2009– was chosen by hackers to be the resource of millions of data from...
View ArticleE-commerce in Africa – the World of New Possibilities
If you want to get rich, move to Africa. This could be the slogan of an imminent revolution of the forgotten continent. Internet’s explosion, social media and e-commerce that so many new millionaires...
View ArticleAmazon’s Shares Reach New Highs Due to 2012 Historical Incomes
While other sectors have not found a clear way to use Internet as an accurate tool to reinforce their market (like Journalism, for example), e-commerce has established itself on Internet as an...
View ArticleBurger King and Jeep’s Twitter Accounts Hacked
On February 18, Burger King found out that its Twitter account was manipulated by hackers. Where its picture profile used to be appeared McDonalds instead and some insulting tweets on the wall....
View ArticleWill the Rumor Become True: Physical Google Retail Stores?
Beyond the screens of electronic devices, Google could become. Not just typing, but touching. Fik Observatory reports on the rumours of the 9to5google blog about a probable opening of a Google physical...
View Article5 Chines eBays for Cheaper Shopping
If Apple chooses China as its provider for electronics, why not take advantage of e-commerce to get closer to the biggest factory country in the world. Every single day, more Chinese websites are...
View ArticleBarcelona Hosts the World Mobile Congress
Throughout 4 days, Barcelona became the world’s capital of the mobile technology. 72.000 attendants among those who were businessmen or experts from 200 countries have gone to the most visited Mobile...
View ArticleGoogle Play, Close to Conquering The Apple App Store
App Annie, a data collector firm, discovered that the Apple App Store earned a 350% more than Google Play, the Android app store in 2012. However, they also note that in the last quarter of that same...
View ArticleHow to Increase Sales With Recommended Products: Cross-Selling
It doesn’t matter what sector we’re talking about these days. All the headlines point in the same direction: product cross-selling (and Big Data) will be the online store’s priority in 2013. The...
View ArticleGoogle Reader Will Disappear in 2013
After almost eight years, Google has decided to retire its RSS Reader. The initiative has been used by many people to get the latest updates about their business area, whatever it could be for a long...
View ArticleThe British Demand Amazon to Pay Sales Taxes
Just one month ago, The Fik reported on the risk of Amazon facing tax commotion. Now, citizens take the lead to combat the money drain and the unequal huge-corporations deal with the government....
View ArticleBlackberry Hits a Record: Order of One Million Devices
While everybody knows that the there is a competition between Google, Apple and Microsoft, BlackBerry is hot on the heels of them. An unusual petition has raised its prestige. The market was expecting...
View ArticleGoogle Keyword Advertising Could Be a Let-Down, Says eBay
Businesses may be wasting billions of pounds a year buying up keyword advertising on search engines such as Google, is the eBay’s assertation after carrying out research about AdWords. Google has based...
View ArticleAmazon, The Most Satisfactory E-commerce Website for Customers
Good news do not stop coming for Amazon. They started the year with the rising value of its shares, as Fik Observatory reported earlier, and now the customers’ satisfaction is a new reason to...
View ArticleWho is the owner of your LinkedIn account?
A concrete case has focused on the rights that an individual has over the control of their social media accounts when there is an enterprise in the middle. After almost two years, a federal judge has...
View ArticleWill Your Social Data Last Forever On the Internet?
Social media is the ultimate expressions of the human interconnections, so it is a synonym of being alive. Still, death is not the most common topic to think about regarding the online world. It is a...
View ArticleNuance Ads Gives Your Customers a Voice for Communication
The voice-recognition company Nuance, developer of voice technology solutions in limitless fields, has taken a step towards paving a new way for ads in mobile devices. The idea is simple but...
View ArticleFireSearch Leads an Anti-Trust Complaint Against Google
Google is in the spotlight again. This time, is the European business and organizations coalition FairSeach the one that has filed a complaint with the European Commission denouncing its allegedly...
View ArticleInditex online stores recive 3 million visits per day
Since its beginning, talking about the Inditex group, it was a successful offline case. Especially Zara. Right now, they can proudly say that the unbreakable relationship between the company and the...
View ArticleAn App Allows You to Try Glasses with 3D Virtual Try-On
No more limits for shopping online. You will not have to wonder if something fits you or not before making your purchasing decision. Glasses.com, an online shop which gathers different glasses models...
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