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After four years running Alibaba-backed eCommerce platform ShopRunner, Scott Thompson is stepping down from the role of CEO to pursue a new entrepreneurial venture. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Moving ahead with its mission to be everything social, social networking behemoth Facebook is piloting a program, with payments powered by Braintree, in which Facebook users can purchase tickets to events directly from the social network’s website or app. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Blue Acorn, the company that says it uses “data to turn eCommerce into science,” is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs but says its business is still growing, according to The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
According to reports emerging late last week, over 11,000 new chatbots have hit the beach on Facebook’s Messenger, with 23,000 developers waiting in the wings after having signed up for the platform’s bot engine. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Consumers are increasingly willing to do their food shopping online. That is the takeaway from a new Harris Poll that indicates about a third of American consumers have ordered something to eat off the web in recent memory. If consumers who never buy anything online...
UPS is making it easier for consumers to pick up their packages on their own time with the expansion of its Access Point smart locker package pick-up program. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
The accepted wisdom of the current retail reality is that no formerly brick-and-mortar brand can operate in a vacuum from the destabilizing effects of online sales. This presupposes that industries are essentially the same online and offline, though, and an entire market of brick-and-mortar cosmetics brands...
In one of the more surprising pieces of news taking the cycle home before the Fourth of July weekend, Apple is in talks to buy Jay-Z’s musician-centric streaming service Tidal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
The best description of Handy is as a house cleaning service, insofar as cleaning is by far its most popular features. But Handy is, ironically enough, not quite correctly summed up so handily since its vision is a bit broader. In short, Handy is a...
