Shopping Online is Better with WePower
According to the best retail industry research, the number of people who shop online will soon top 1.5 billion worldwide. That creates a huge market that, while many companies have sought to take advantage of, leaves room for plenty more. WePower Shopping is an online marketplace, essentially a web store, that utilizes social elements to create a relevant shopping experience and guarantees the lowest prices online. It organizes and displays products based on consumer interests and rewards users for engagement. Using analytics easily gathered from consumer networking and “shares” on its site, it can identify trending products and secure deals directly with vendors and manufacturers to cut out the cost of middle men. This means savings for its customers and a greater ability to provide more people with the things they truly want. Read more »
Stock photos are an easy and free means of finding an appropriate photo online to attach to a blog, Facebook post, or webpage, among a wide range of uses. Unfortunately, these stock photos are easy to identify as such, very obviously staged, and may only vaguely convey what you are communicating. Twenty20 is a startup that looks to change this through crowdsourcing. It offers what its creators call “the world’s largest crowdsourced image catalog.” Along with solving the stock image issue for users, it provides an opportunity for anyone to upload photos and potentially make money on them. It provides the added benefit that the photos people can find on the Twenty20 website are much more creative and interesting than the ones typically found on similar websites or through a random image search. People who are seeking photos that they can legally add to their blogs can get a subscription at Twenty20 to purchase some at a lower cost than hiring a photographer, while photographers can display their smartphone photos to big brands and marketing agencies. 
Much of the technological innovation that makes life easier does so through its application to retail and improving the connection between buyers and sellers. Utilized in a number of different ways, technology has completely changed the way people do business. CloudTags is a new startup that looks to take advantage of tech in retail and improve upon it in a unique way.