The online shopping habits of Polish internet users As is common nowadays in almost all developed countries, Polish internet users also don’t limit themselves to a PC when making a purchase online. There is even one in every 25 users who has at least once done some online shopping using... read more →

45% growth in Polish cross-border ecommerce in 2014 There was a growth of 45% in the cross-border ecommerce industry in Poland this year. With this growth rate, it grew harder than the cross-border ecommerce industry in European countries like Romania, Greece and Hungary. Polish consumers would shop more abroad if... read more →

Belgian government wants to boost ecommerce Ecommerce offers many opportunities on the European market and it’s important that Belgium manages to keep a “piece of that pie” for itselves. That’s one of the things Minister Alexander de Croo told the audience during the first edition of E-commerce Xpo. The government... read more →

MasterCard plans 2015 debit card launch in Canada MasterCard plans to launch a debit-card service in Canada next year to take advantage of the growth in digital payments.This renewed effort – the company scrapped an initial plan to enter Canada in 2010 – reflects MasterCard’s attempt to grow its business... read more →

Polish ecommerce industry is worth €6.94bn in 2014 It’s estimated that the value of the Polish ecommerce market will be worth 6.94 billion euros (29 billion zloty) in 2014. That’s 1.2 billion euros more than the Polish ecommerce industry value in 2013. Nowadays, more than 60 percent of Polish Internet... read more →

AO has big plans for expansion into Europe AO, the British online retailer of domestic appliances, has launched its German website, but that’s not the only expansion it has planned. AO World is also looking at starting businesses in the Netherlands and Belgium. Austria, Switzerland and France are also potential... read more →

H&M launches online stores in 8 new European countries H&M will launch online stores in eight different countries in Europe during 2015. The new online markets will be Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Slovakia. H&M’s online stores are already available in eleven European countries. The press... read more →

MasterCard and Visa to replace defunct security standard MasterCard and Visa are working together to replace their unpopular security systems, MasterCard SecureCode and Verified by Visa, with a simpler solution using far fewer prompts for passwords and supporting a range of biometric technologies. The new protocol could begin rolling out... read more →

Europeans will spend €1.67bn online during busiest shopping days Soon it will be Christmas. And that means spending some precious time with your beloved ones, but Christmas is also about presents. And Europeans love to shop those presents online. As a matter of fact, in Europe 19.3% of online sales... read more →

Mobile payments set to boom by 2019 The next five years will be the tipping point bringing mobile payments to the mainstream according to a report from the research firm Forrester. The study, released on Monday, expects mobile payments in the US alone to reach $142 billion in volume in... read more →