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Yappn Global Ecommerce Framework Enables Online Stores to Offer Real-Time Multilingual Global Shopping With Shopify(R) App as First Platform Rollout
Yappn Global Ecommerce Framework Enables Online Stores to Offer Real-Time Multilingual Global Shopping With Shopify(R) App as First Platform Rollout.
About this update from Yappn Corporation
[{"type":"text","content":"\nNEW YORK, May 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yappn Corp. (\"Yappn\" or \"Company\") (OTCQB:YPPN) a leader in real-time language technology and translation is pleased to announce that it is launching its Windrose Global Ecommerce (\"WGE\") framework, allowing Ecommerce providers, developers and partners to offer vendors the ability to build once and deploy their active online stores in up to 67 languages, through a single store application. The first partnership with Yappn and Windrose will deliver a Shopify® app, available in Shopify's® app store, by late-June.\n\n\tYappn's WGE application for Shopify® is a Microsoft Azure® cloud recurring fee based software-as-a-service (SaaS) deliverable that is a combination of native Shopify® application (app) and a cloud-based portal enabling E-tailers to expand their reach into up to 67 different languages simply and easily, through an automated app install, without any development or computer programming experience. The Windrose app allows online stores to be viewed in multiple languages without the creation of additional Shopify® storefronts, making marketing, sales and support seamless and easy to both the customer and vendor.\n\n\tThe market for such an application is extremely large as demonstrated by the following statistics:\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tEmerging market population growth resulting in more non-English internet users\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tGrowing global ecommerce market\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t- Only 800.6 million of the 3.0 billion internet users surf in English*\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t- Top Ecommerce growth markets do not speak English as native language (China, Brazil, and Germany growing at 32%, 15.5%, and 15.9% respectively in 2015)****\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t- The market size of the global language services industry will rise from $34.7 billion in 2013 to a projected $47 billion by 2018**\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t- B2C Ecommerce sales has grown from $1.2 trillion in 2013 to a projected $2.4 trillion by 2017****\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t- Projected CAGR of 5.72 percent over the period 2013-2018 in global language services market ***\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t- 2015 will be the year that Ecommerce sales in emerging markets outpace developed countries. Asia-Pacific will have a 33.4% share of global B2C Ecommerce market versus 31.7% in North America*...