Global coffee chain Starbucks has launched its mobile order and payment service across 300 stores in Beijing and Shanghai.

Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) has unveiled a major upgrade to its Net-a-Porter iOS app, with a new shoppable editorial platform intended to give readers a seamless path from content to purchase.

L’Oréal is set to launch a new AI-powered app able to diagnose acne and give users product recommendations on Alibaba’s platform. The beauty giant is set to launch The Effaclar Spotscan feature on Alibaba’s Tmall and Taoboa apps in June. Alibaba’s teams used AI and deep learning to scan 6000 scienti...

Samsung is understood to have found solutions to the numerous problems dogging its $2000 folding phone, following a disastrous initial release. In late April Samsung sent out its new Galaxy Fold to tech journalists around the world for review only for a myriad of issues with the device to be exposed...

Mobile retail spend in the UK is set to double to £33.2 billion over the next five years, with clothing and footwear representing the “driving force behind the channel”. According to new research from Globaldata, mobiles will account for over 40 per cent of all online spending by 2024, with revenues...

Yoox Net-a-Porter is set to capitalise on Instagram’s new shopping features and shoppers will be able to purchase directly from its accounts “in the next few days”. The luxury fashion retailer’s chief executive Federico Marchetti told the World Retail Congress that shoppers who followed the group’s...

Nike is set to introduce a new feature to its retail app which will scan shoppers’ feet to determine their exact size, aiming to eliminate ill fitting shoes for good. Nike Fit will be rolled out in stores and in the Nike app in North America in July, and across Europe in August. According to...

Facebook has selected London as the centre to launch WhatsApp’s upcoming push into mobile payments, providing some hope for post-Brexit London to maintain its position as a global tech hub. Last week at Facebook’s F8 conference its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced a raft of upcoming changes...

Google has launched a budget version of its flagship Pixel smartphone as it aims to ramp up pressure on its tech rivals Apple and Samsung. Yesterday at its annual developers conference, Google unveiled a £399 Pixel 3a, half the price of the Pixel 3 which was released last year. Its Pixel 3a and larg...

Samsung has apologised to its customers who have pre-ordered its $2000 (£1500) folding phone as its release continues to be delayed without a definitive end in sight. The South Korean tech giant said today that it could not confirm the shipping date for its flagship folding phone the Galaxy Fold, wh...