May 01, 2024
Carvana’s Inventory ‘Constrained’ as Online Used Car Retailer Posts Record...
Online used car retailer Carvana reported “milestone” first quarter (Q1) results on Wednesday (May 1), fueling a 30% surge in its stock price. This strong performance comes on the heels of...
April 11, 2024
CarMax Deploys Tech to Gain Efficiency in Challenging Used-Car Market
CarMax is deploying tech solutions to boost efficiency as it continues to deal with a tough environment for buying and selling used cars. “Fiscal 2024 was a challenging year across the...
March 29, 2024
Bidpath Launches Payments Platform Designed for Auctions
Bidpath has launched a payments platform designed for auction payments. The new AuctionPay platform is designed to streamline merchant services for auctioneers and organizations, catering to both online and in-person payments, the provider...
February 16, 2024
Data at the Frontline: The Economic Theories of Data-Centric Antitrust...
Data is a strategic resource in the digital economy. The ability to rely on expansive, high-quality data sets has allowed firms not only to offer consumers cheaper and better products,...
February 15, 2024
Merchants Returns Create Consumer Bargain-Shopping Opportunity
As eCommerce players grapple with effort-intensive, costly returns, startup buyWander sees the opportunity to both solve this headache for retailers and meet consumers’ demand for lower-cost goods. In an interview...
January 31, 2024
FTC Pushes Review of CoStar’s Commercial Real Estate Antitrust Case
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has intervened in the antitrust allegations swirling around CoStar’s commercial real estate business. The FTC is urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider...
January 24, 2024
Ebay Cuts 9% of Staff Amid Rising Competition
Online marketplace company eBay says it will lay off 9% of its workforce, citing a difficult macroeconomic environment. Those job cuts will affect about 1,000 full-time employees of the eCommerce platform, CEO Jamie Iannone said in...
December 19, 2023
Ebay to Take on Poshmark, The RealReal for Luxury Resale...
In a bid to draw consumers to its eCommerce platform, eBay is exploring new retail avenues. The online retailer served as a go-to site for online shopping in the past,...
December 10, 2023
Google Defends Adtech Against EU Antitrust Charges
Google is pushing back against proposed measures by EU antitrust regulators that would require the tech giant to divest part of its adtech business. The company contends that such a...