Bits & Bytes | Retail's Holy Grail, Vogue on Amazon, Social Commerce

"Instagram: Retail's Holy Grail" (The Financial Times)
"Millennial females' anxieties about appearing too many times in the same outfit in their internet photographs is driving fundamental changes in the way they shop."

"Vogue's September Issue Will Be Sold on Amazon" (Page Six)
"The publisher has partnered with Amazon to make its arguably most-desired print product — Vogue's September issue — available to Amazon customers."

"For Impulse Shoppers, a Brave New Retail World on Social Media" (Re/Code)
"While it seems to make sense to combine the experiences of socializing with friends and shopping — as the inventors of the mall discovered ages ago — it's easier said than done online."

"Amazon Opens Huge Photo Studio In London To Feed Its Fashion Ambition" (TechCrunch)
"Amazon has opened up a new photography studio in Shoreditch, London — a 46,000 square-foot venue with 22 photography bays that Amazon says is one of the largest of its kind in Europe and will help it create and add more than 500,000 images of clothes to its sites every year."

"Instagram's Ad Sales Are Expected to Top $2 Billion by 2017" (Adweek)
"Instagram will earn $2.81 billion in ad sales by 2017, outselling Google and Twitter when it comes to U.S. display ads."

"The Timepiece That Will Change Everything" (Slate)
"It's less glitzy than the Apple Watch, but this product has the potential to set off a quiet revolution."