Author: George Hari Popescu

Freelance Communications Consultant and Translation Assistant for Creative Commons.

Weekly news: Coleto and evoMAG are buddies, the 2017 most innovative companies, Cassie the robot to the rescue

Coleto shakes hands with evoMAG Coleto announced an important partnership with evoMAG. The collaboration between the two companies will facilitate the delivery of parcels ordered online, in a large network of delivery locations. The customers will be able to pick-up their orders whenever they like and they will not have to wait anymore for the delivery agents at home or at the office. Coleto is a delivery network based on distributed delivery points that has just entered the Romanian market. evoMAG is one of the most important e-shops in Romania from in last 12 years. Citiți detalii la Ecompedia   Which are the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies? This year marks the 10th edition of the World’s Most Innovative Companies ranking. The reporting team sifts through thousands of enterprises each year, searching for those that tap both heartstrings and purse strings and use the engine of commerce to make a

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E-commerce sector is under European Commission’s analysis. What does it mean for Romania?

The European Commission (“EC”) announced on 2nd February 2017 that it launched 3 investigations with respect to certain anticompetitive practices in the e-commerce sector, says Lexology. The Romanian Competition Council launched a sector inquiry in the online segment following the EC practice. This was initially set to target the online sales of electronics and fashion products and, apparently, was extended to the majority online sold products.

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IREU Top500 Mobile & Cross-channel Report: personalize, personalize, personalize

In the second IREU Top500 Performance Dimension Report, the focus is on mobile and cross-channel retail. One device, in particular, has transformed this area: the smartphone. See how retailers are using mobile in their business models as they trade at scale in this continent, and how the use of mobile varies between markets.

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Weekly news: the 10 commandments of Internet safety, Amazon’s best practices, EC’s investigations

The 10 commandments of  Internet safety Our friends from the European Consumer Center Romania – ECC Romania issued their 10 “commandments” to ensure safety online, with the occasion of the Internet Safety Day (February 7). Here are the first of them: 1. On social networks, thou shall not post photos without asking for your friends’ permission; 2. On Facebook, thou shall choose wisely the security settings; 3. Thou shall read carefully the Terms and Conditions of the dating site in Romania or Europe, before subscribing. Read all 10 commandments on Facebook   Amazon, best practices in 2016 What were Amazon’s key strategic milestones in 2016? 1. Amazon Prime expanded (UK members benefited from free Amazon Music Unlimited for the first time in 2016); 2. Innovations (from the opening of the Amazon Go store in Seattle to the first Prime Air drone delivery and the Alexa voice service, the retailer has used technology to

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The mobile is the ideal tool for payments

According to the latest survey of mobile money from the Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF), 18% of people globally saying they have used their mobile phone in a shop in 2016. The research findings do show that in a year the use of mobile in stores to pay for things has jumped from 8% to 18%, largely driven by Apple Pay in China. What is important about mobile payments: the convenience; the security; the management of paying across the web, stores, anywhere.

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