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Cross Border Commerce
PYMNTS Data Dive: The Coming Cross-Border Travel Explosion
June 10, 2016

With a perfect stream of events — including an emerging middle class in several global economies, an aging but healthy population with both money and time on their hands to expend all of a sudden and a host of digital technologies that make travel extremely...

Social Commerce
Facebook Urges Retailers To Start Investing In Mobile … Now!
June 10, 2016

Speaking at a trade conference in Chicago earlier this week, Facebook’s Head of U.S. E-Commerce Jeremy Lewis made his pitch for mobile for retailers, saying that it’s no longer optional because it is undeniably the future. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Retail
Restoration Hardware Looking To Rebuild After Rough Q1
June 10, 2016

Add another retailer to the bonfire of the earnings reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...

Merchant Innovation
Uber’s Rolling Out A Reservation System For Rides
June 10, 2016

Where Lyft goes, it seems Uber will follow (and vice versa). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing...

Retail
Lululemon Surprises And Beats The Street
June 10, 2016

After kicking up some drama last week with a letter from a very disappointed founder excoriating Lululemon’s “underperforming board,” the tide of the headlines managed to turn some with the announcement this week that Lulu had managed to beat the street when it came to...

Retail
Does Wayfair Have The Winning VR Use Case?
June 10, 2016

Virtual reality has gotten a lot of favorable press lately as an up and coming “next big thing in retail.” Big name brands from the North Face to Ikea have all thrown their hats into the ring, trying to build out the killer application for the technology...

International
Can Rio de Janeiro Withstand The Olympic Pressure?
June 10, 2016

As the Summer Olympics quickly approach, all eyes are on the host city: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But is this emerging tech center ready to step up to the plate? In the latest installment of the PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup, we travel south to...

International
In India, Foreign Retail Won’t Take No For An Answer
June 10, 2016

What Apple wants, Apple usually gets. Usually being the operative word here. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...

Partnerships / Acquisitions
Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Walmart Feeds On The Go, Starbucks Sips Tea With AB InBev
June 10, 2016

Randy Newman probably doesn’t get a lot of play in boardrooms around the retail sector, but that doesn’t mean that companies haven’t taken the message behind his hit “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” to heart. In fact, the tighter the margin between winners and...