The World Wide Web, which has radically changed the way we live, has just turned 25.

On 12 March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist working at CERN, submitted an idea for an infrastructure enabling information to be shared over the Internet. 

The global retail industry is worth a staggering $15 trillion, and according to Nicolas Franchet, three major trends are expected to dominate digital retail this year: discovery, timeliness and compression.

Franchet, head of Vertical Strategy for Retail at Facebook, thinks that people will continue to make use of feeds while they surf the web, as they offer a simpler, more organised way of discovering things. Therefore, retailers will focus their investments in feeds as a digital shopping tool to promote their products and lure consumers.