31 October 2018: Talking headlines On the Agenda with Sarah Jones, Founder & CEO of Sprii.
Abu Dhabi: Although Masdar City in Abu Dhabi launched an autonomous shuttle vehicle on Monday, the use of driverless vehicles on public roads has hit a speed bump due to a key challenge: regulations — or lack of it.
San Francisco: Facebook on Tuesday announced an overhaul of its Messenger smartphone app in an effort to simplify the service for its 1.3 billion monthly global users.
The social network began rolling out a redesigned version featuring three tabs instead of nine, saying it was “going back to its roots” seven years after the standalone app’s launch.
Dubai-based logistics firm Aramex announced on Sunday the launch of a more personalised customer interaction channel, through its partnership with WhatsApp for Business. The roll out of the service is part of the company’s efforts to enhance customer experience and digitise the end-to-end shipment journey.
The first Arab Youth Startup Marketplace (AYSM), organised by the Arab Youth Centre and Abu Dhabi investment company Mubadala, aimed to put young entrepreneurs in touch with potential investors.
E-commerce business models are undergoing a dramatic shift. Initially, businesses relied on consumers to do the heavy lifting to discover the product and to make the purchase decision.
The vendor’s role was to ensure that the product was discoverable and, most importantly, available at the geographic location where the transaction potentially would take place. But the new e-commerce business model is optimised by driving the consumer to subscribe to an “experience”.