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River Island launches "app experience" for wearables

High street retailer River Island has launched a new app for wearables such as Android Wear and the Apple Wear, making it one of the first mass-market retailers to introduce an app for wearables. The debut app offers a number of features, such as customised feeds of the latest items and lets users save and view items in their wish list or add...

Retail

Mango implements Scan & Shop function via mobile app

Spanish fashion retailer Mango has integrated a new scan and shop function to its iOS app to boost mobile sales, which currently account for 30 percent of the retailer's global online turnover of 124 million euros (97.7 million pounds). The new function uses image recognition and augmented reality technology to identify Mango products in...

Design

Asos launches US shopping app

Asos, UK's largest fashion retailer, has launched its US shopping application, which offers over 850 labels as well as Asos home brand for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. "Mobile traffic has become an increasingly important channel, so the development of a shopping app was a major priority for us this year," commented Matt Hiscock, senior...