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2.4KAppleApple’s Ahrendts Says Future Of Retail Is About “Town Squares”
Apple’s vice president of retail, Angela Ahrendts, doesn’t see the Apple stores as simply places to learn and purchase Apple devices. In...
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2.6KSecurity & FraudA Fraudster Speaks Out On Account Takeover Fraud
If fraud attacks are the flu, then the Equifax data breach was a raging fever: a symptom (albeit a dramatic one) of...
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1.6KSecurity & FraudFour “Need To Knows” About Balancing Digital UX And Security
What do consumers want? Merchants think they have the answers: ease, efficiency and instant gratification. Oh, and security, too – but not...
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2.1KOmnicommerceTRENDING: The Role Of Pop-Up Shops In Driving Omnicommerce
Customers are increasingly making purchases online and making decisions based on shipping – namely, how fast and how cheaply a retailer can get...
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1.4KBlockchainBlockchain Provides Boost To Overstock Shares
Shares of Overstock.com rose 11.6 percent on Tuesday (Oct. 17) as a result of the company’s investment in blockchain, CNBC reports. The...
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2.5KRetailWalmart CEO Says More Acquisitions To Come
After making a handful of recent acquisitions, Walmart is hungry for more, with its CEO of U.S. eCommerce revealing that the company...
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1.3KPayment MethodsCardstream And Creditcall Team Up To Power Omnichannel Processing
Cardstream and Creditcall have joined forces to free merchants and their acquirers from single-stack payment acceptance solutions. Cardstream — an independent white label payment...
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1.4KAmazonAmazon Tracker: Raising The (Pop-Up) Bar
From teenagers to Tokyo, Amazon is perpetually looking for new ways to meet new consumers where they are. In this week’s tracker,...
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1.2KAmazonTeens Can Shop On Amazon Using A Parent-Controlled Login
Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday (Oct. 10) it has launched an easy way for teens aged 13 to 17 to shop on the...
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2.1KeCommerceAffirm’s Plan To “AMP” Retailer Margins And Conversions
You’ve heard the old story: If brick-and-mortar merchants watched 75 percent of their customers walk in their stores and then walk out...
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1.4KRetailWalmart Says Online Sales To Increase 40 Percent In 2018
Walmart is placing a bigger emphasis on online sales, with the company’s executives saying they are cutting more costs to free cash...
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1.7KAmazon DeliveryAmazon Wants To Deliver Stuff To Your Car
As if it wasn’t enough to deliver packages to millions of consumers’ homes, Amazon is now reportedly working to deliver packages to...
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1.9KAmazonAmazon Tracker: Whole Foods Numbers Aren’t Great News For Anyone
It’s now been a month since Amazon took over Whole Foods, and the initial stats have likely kept execs of other grocery...
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2.5KRetailHow Retailers Can Avoid Reinventing The Wheel In 2017
The retail game has evolved so much over the last half decade that, in some ways, it might be unrecognizable to a...
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2.0KAmazon DeliveryFedEx, UPS Stocks Tank On Amazon Delivery News
United Parcel Service and FedEx stocks were under pressure Thursday (Oct. 5) after reports surfaced that Amazon is testing its own delivery...
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2.4KMobile CommerceShopify Defends Citron Research Drubbing
Shopify, the Canada based eCommerce software provider, is out defending its business after short-seller Citron Research slammed the company, sending shares down...
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4.5KLoyalty & RewardsUbiquity And The Holy Grail Of Rewards Redemption
Consumers don’t really spend a lot of time redeeming their rewards. Maybe that’s a function of the programs where paying for points is...
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5.8KRetailMajor Marketplaces: Friend Or Foe To The SMB?
Are major online marketplaces a friend or foe to the SMB (small- to medium-sized business)? Although many smaller merchants see behemoths such...
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2.7KAmazon CommerceAmazonBasics Is Bigger Than You Think
In recent Amazon news, AmazonBasics — Amazon’s private label retail merchandise brand — made news as a “spearhead” of the company’s private brands, according to...
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2.4KMobile Order AheadDomino’s Says Alexa Powers One In Five One-Click Pizza Orders
Two months after it made it possible to order pizza through voice-controlled devices in the U.K., Domino’s is seeing positive results. According...
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2.2KRetailNordstrom And Everlane Pair Up For A Pop-Up
High-end department store Nordstrom will be offering a unique in-store shopping experience, featuring an in-store pop-up shop with the ethical fashion e-tailing...
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5.6KRetailFIS: Why Retailers Must Put Payments At The Tip Of The Spear
As consumers, payments and channels evolve, many traditional merchants have been holding onto solvency by their fingernails. Most would not call the...
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1.9KRetailNew School Commerce Meets (Extremely) Old School Production
Maybe it was a sweater, maybe it was socks — but, for most people with knitting-inclined relatives, Christmas wasn’t quite Christmas until...
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1.7KAmazonAmazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond
Amazon’s empire just keeps getting bigger, and although it’s conquered much digital territory, we’re actually talking about its geographical empire this time....
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3.7KRetailAlibaba, Paytm Could Make Joint Investment In BigBasket
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba and India-based digital payment company Paytm are gearing up to invest around $200 million in Indian online grocer BigBasket. According...
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2.5KInternationalGoFro And Taking The Treasure Hunting Out Of Travel
American consumers have long since forgotten when booking travel was like a treasure hunt. Instead of having to search through countless sites...
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2.6KRetailAptos And Billabong Surf The Cloud
Billabong is a bigger company than most people might imagine. Apart from its well-known namesake brand, Billabong is also the parent behind...
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5.4KRetailAre You Ready For Some Football (Commerce)?
Well, we had a totally different intro written for this piece before the New England Patriots blew it on Thursday night and...
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3.6KRetailTarget Stock Falls More Than 3 Percent As It Slashes Prices
Target recently announced it has lowered its prices on thousands of items, a news report which resulted in its stock price falling more...
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3.0KRetailAI Tracker: From Game Of Thrones To Biases, AI Had A Big Week
There are those who get excited about AI and those who fear it — and for everyone in between, there’s speculation. The...
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1.6KB2B PaymentsIFC Places Confidence (And $10 Million) In Power2SME
Months after first signaling plans for the investment, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has placed $10 million in group buying site Power2SME. Reports...
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2.1KRetailAlibaba Is Building A Five-Story Physical Mall
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba is building a physical mall to meld the worlds of offline and online commerce. According to a report by...
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6.5KMobile CommerceConsumers Love The Sharing Economy, But Are Ambivalent About eCommerce
Most Americans think ride-sharing — à la services like Lyft and Uber — has been good for the U.S. Online shopping, on...
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6.9KInternationalThe Myth Of The Global Marketplace
Don’t forget the seller. That’s among the takeaways of this “appetizer” conversation between PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and Hyperwallet’s SVP of Digital Markets,...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsFrom AI To T&E, B2B FinTechs Rake $141 Million
Don’t let the lack of news about mega-grossing venture capital (VC) rounds fool you. This week’s B2B venture capital activity led to...
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2.5KSecurity & FraudNo Place For Hate Group Transaction Laundering
Agree or disagree with the Second Amendment, there’s nothing wrong with a website selling goods like hats and t-shirts to people who...
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2.1KRetailOfferUp And Building A Better Goods Swap
Everyone has problems, and an awful lot of people are good at solving them. What separates entrepreneurs from the rest, though, is...
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2.8KPayment MethodsApple To Let Chinese Consumers Pay For App Purchases Via WeChat Pay
Tech giant Apple is embracing WeChat Pay, giving consumers in China more ways to pay for purchases. The WeChat Pay digital payment service is...
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4.4KSecurity & FraudMan Plus Machine: Better Together In The Fight Against Fraud
Fraudsters are like those wanton drivers running red lights while they text or granting themselves the right of way in a rotary...
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3.0KIntelligence of ThingsNEW REPORT: When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be There … Now?
Being smarter than the competition can have its advantages in everything from athletics to business. So, by this thinking, can smarter IoT-powered...
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2.3KRetailGoogle Tracker: Challenging The Champions
Google seems to want a slice of everybody else’s pie this week. Some of the search engine giant’s latest moves are strikingly...
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2.0KRetailNordstrom Brings ‘Reserve Online & Try In-Store’ To More Locations
Many consumers enjoy shopping in department stores, others enjoy making purchases directly via eCommerce — and then there are those who fall...
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2.1KRetailMiddle East Online Marketplace Slowly Taking Shape
eCommerce has become a natural part of life in many parts of the world, but that hasn’t been the case in the...
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2.1KInternationalNaspers Chairman Pushes Back On Calls To Sell Its Tencent Stake
Faced with calls to break up the eCommerce and Pay TV company and sell its stake in Tecent, the chairman of South...
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3.5KAmazonAmazon Top Up Allows UK Underbanked Users To Pay With Cash
Amazon has added the ability for U.K. users to pay for products and services on its eCommerce platform using cash with Amazon...
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2.4KEarningsAd Agencies Hit By “Digital Disruption,” Bits And Bytes Take Bites From Middlemen
London-based multinational advertising and public relations company WPP’s sneeze shows a flu spreading across the advertising sector, and the malaise is borne...
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1.9KRetailBack To The Roots And Taking The Friction Out Of Natural Foods
Watching fish swim is an inherently relaxing activity. It’s why there are cable networks that showcase nothing but footage from inside fish...
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4.3KSecurity & FraudAustralia Blames eCommerce, Bitcoin For Uptick In Organized Crime
Australia is blaming the growth in online banking and digital currencies like Bitcoin for a huge increase in organized crime in the...
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3.1KStartup RoundupThe Start-Up Secret Sauce
For all the wonderful things to be said for entrepreneurship, there remains this fact: It is extremely hard work that carries with...
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1.9KAmazonAmazon Opening Two Brick-And-Mortar Bookstores This Week
eCommerce leader Amazon is moving more deeply into the brick-and-mortar retail arena with the launch of two new physical bookstores, both of which will...
