Among Amazon’s most prominent and decisive steps in achieving retail dominance over the last few years has been its focus on expanding its...

For today’s shoppers, instant gratification is the need of the hour. It’s, therefore, no surprise that furniture e-retail has be...

We’ve come a long way from face paint and medicinal herbs to multi-billion dollar industries revolving around health and beauty. Customers...

Online holiday shopping (Nov-Dec) in the US for 2019 is projected to be $143.7B, a 14.1% increase from 2018. This sets a rather exciting sta...

The holidays are around the corner and that much awaited holiday cheer, has now become directly proportional to the arrival of an Amazon pac...

Target and Walmart offered more appealing discounts than Amazon during Prime Day 2019. Statista estimates that e-commerce fashion accounted ...

Just as with electronics, other retailers actually offered far better discounts than Amazon during Prime Day 2019. Online furniture sales ha...

Our preliminary analysis reveals that Prime Day 2019 had other retailers offering better deals than Amazon in many cases. As Prime Day exten...

Nine out of 10 leading retailers price their private label products lower than the average prices of their respective categories, reveals th...

Online retailers in the US have enjoyed an impressive turnover during 2018’s Thanksgiving weekend sale. Over the last few weeks, DataW...

Consumer electronics has always been one of the most popular product categories for consumers during the Thanksgiving weekend sale each year...

The biggest holiday sale event of the western retail calendar — the Thanksgiving weekend sale, which includes Thanksgiving Day, Black ...

An average of $11.7 million per second was the rate at which Alibaba clocked $1 billion in sales during the first 85 seconds of Singles’ D...

Recently, Karthik Bettadapura, Co-founder & CEO at DataWeave, was interviewed by Vishal Krishna, Business Editor at YourStory, in the Ba...

As with many other product categories, Amazon has made a significant incursion in Apparel — a key battleground category in retail today. R...

It’s festival season in India again and shoppers took advantage of aggressive cutthroat competition between Indian online retailers to dri...

Natt Fry, a renowned thought leader in the world of retail and analytics, published recently an article expounding the value and potential o...

Another year, another round of media frenzy, and another set of records broken. In only three years, Amazon’s Prime Day has evolved into o...

Confidence amongst retailing analysts was rocked last month by two successive announcements. H&M’s most recent quarterly report, which...

From initially lagging well behind early high-penetration categories such as consumer electronics, books, and apparel, furniture is now emer...

Apparel remains one of the key battleground categories in retail today, and like in most other product categories, Amazon has made significa...

Following a successful Black Friday in November, the United Kingdom geared up for the 2017 Christmas season in December. Analysts estimate t...

Following three back-to-back mega-sale events leading up to Diwali, India’s eCommerce companies once again opened the discount floodgates ...

Commencing on the 11th of November and ending just a few days ago on the 12th of December, Southeast Asia’s biggest sale event, the Lazada...

While the Thanksgiving weekend sale, which includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is famous for attractive offers across all consumer categ...

Fashion has always been one of the great engines of retail, and two of its iconic sale events are Thanksgiving and Black Friday. While Black...

Alibaba may have raked in some $25 billion on Singles’ Day in the largest one-day sales turnover ever. In the Western world, however, Blac...

$17.5 million every 60 seconds. That’s the volume of sales Alibaba generated on 11.11, or Singles Day. This mammoth event, decisively the ...

Lazada’s signature event, Online Revolution, is a month-long sale extravaganza that commenced with a Mega Sale on 11 November, and culmina...

In today’s rapidly evolving online and mobile worlds, few things encapsulate the competitive nature of the online retail battlefield like ...

As the battle of the Indian eCommerce heavyweights continues to accelerate, we have witnessed three separate sale events compressed into the...

In the lead up to October’s Diwali celebrations, almost all major Indian e-retailers had announced mammoth sale events for last week. Resu...

Earlier this year, we witnessed Amazon and Walmart going head to head in a CPG goods price war of fluctuating intensity that soon rippled ou...

Amazon.com, America’s retail behemoth, dominated headlines in August when it completed its acquisition of Whole Foods in early August 2017...

When retailers today look to compete in the cutthroat world of online commerce, they face several challenges unique to the nature of modern ...

Matching images is hard! Images, intrinsically, are complex forms of information, with varying backgrounds, orientations, and noise. Develop...

Hint: Only in some product categories Amazon’s Prime Day sale, the first-of-its-kind in India, made a conspicuous splash across the media ...

For years, the consumer electronics chain Radioshack has endeavored to stay alive in our ever-changing world. Despite their efforts, they ha...

We all know, online shopping offers a lot of benefits to shoppers. Apart from the convenience it offers access to a wide-assortment base and...

After a thorough assessment of our product FinancesOnline, a well-known software review platform and SaaS leads generation source, awarded...

Top pricing strategies for online retailers “When it comes to retail markets, law of one price is no law at all” — Hal Varian Hal ...

Social media can be defined as virtual communities and networks, where social interaction takes place among people and a wide variety of co...

PriceWeave provides Competive Intelligence for eRetailers, brands, and manufacturers. Competitive Intelligence helps businesses understand...

In the aggressive business of online retail every detail you know about your competitor gives you an edge over them. To help you stay ahead ...

[This is Part 2 of a series of posts on Competitive Intelligence for Retail. Find the previous post here.] Competitive pricing is arguably ...

[This is Part 3 of a series of posts on Competitive Intelligence for Retail. Find the previous posts here: Part 1 and Part 2.] 1. Accurat...

Smartphones vs Tablets: Does size matter? We have seen a steady increase in the number of smartphones and tablets since the last five years...

Product Matching is a combination of algorithmic and manual techniques to recognize and match identical products from different sources. Pro...

Research shows that the colour of the clothes we wear significantly affect our day to day lives. For instance wearing black might help us a...

Picture this. You’re approaching the biggest sale of the year for your business, the number of offerings are ever growing and your competi...

In retail, product assortment plays a critical role in selling effectively. It impacts the everyday decision making of category managers, br...

In today’s world dominated by technology and gadgets, we often wonder how well a particular product or technology is being perceived by so...

Twitter, as we know, is a highly popular social networking and micro-blogging service used by millions worldwide. Each status or tweet as we...

GNU Parallel is a tool that can be deployed from a shell to parallelize job execution. A job can be anything from simple shell scripts to c...

Let’s revisit our raison d’être: DataWeave is a platform on which we do large-scale data aggregation and serve this data in forms that...

Several months ago we released our Telecom recharge plans API. It soon turned out to be one of our more popular APIs, with some of the lead...

[The idea for this post was given by Mahesh B. L., who is a friend of DataWeave. We are going to have some fun with data below.] Ayudha Puj...

In today’s world, the analysis of any social media stream can reap invaluable information about, well, pretty much everything. If you are ...

We have taken a special interest in colors in recent times. Some of us can even identify and name a couple of dozen different colors! The ge...

Without argument, one of the most common used data model is JSON. There are two popular packages used for handling json — first is the sto...

Scaling is a common challenge when you have to deal with a lot of data everyday. This is one thing we face at DataWeave a lot and have man...

[This post was written by Dipanjan. Dipanjan works in the Engineering Team with Mandar, addressing some of the problems related to Data Sema...

Social media can be defined as virtual communities and networks, where social interaction takes place among people and a wide variety of co...