Toys“R”Us has launched a free-to-play AR app, Play Chaser, for smartphones and tablets that virtually brings stores to life.

The Alibaba Group launched the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival 2017, a one-day global online shopping promotion earlier this month on November 11. It set a record of reaching half a billion new customers and generated US$25.3 billion (Bt839 billion) in sales in a single day.

Soon Amazon.com Inc will have ‘real’ presence in Australia. Amazon confirmed its plans to open in Australia in April and will now start shipping within Australia soon.

Cosmetics Company L’Oréal has emerged as an early adopter of’ New Retail’ in China. New Retail is a concept from Alibaba for the business model that integrates E-Commerce, Stores and Logistics by seamlessly weaving online and offline shopping into one experience.

In an attempt to integrate online and offline shopping without building its own physical stores, Alibaba has been on a lookout for buying stake in companies. The Chinese e-commerce giant has bought more than one-third stake in one of Chinese most prolific operators of hypermarket stores, Sun Art Retail Group.

Salesforce recently launched IoT Explorer Edition. This tool has been designed to ‘harness IoT data to build, iterate and deploy proactive sales, service or marketing business processes’.