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387AmazonPrime Day Expected To Lift US eCommerce Spend Past $2B
Amazon’s impact from Prime Day this year will again lift the U.S. eCommerce market, according to a report by TechCrunch. Adobe Digital...
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200RetailReady, Set, Go: Here Comes 2019 Amazon Prime Day(s)
Only Amazon could alter the meaning of long-established units of time. We at PYMNTS occasionally employ benign exaggeration for journalistic purposes, but...
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1.1KMobile CommerceCan A Line Of Code Fix Customer Onboarding?
Few activities in the digital economy are as filled with friction, and as frustrating and risky for merchants, banks and other businesses,...
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1.1KAmazonAmazon Prime Day(s): Prime Opportunity for Credit Unions
Amazon Prime Day as prime opportunity for credit unions? Billions of dollars of spending activity will mark the annual promotional event, which...
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1.4KDigital PaymentsThe ‘Invisible Change’ Coming To Online Shopping
For those who are focused on how better payments can lead to better eCommerce, the upcoming months promise to be an exciting...
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582InternationalNew China Guidelines Increase Foreign Business Opportunities
The world’s second-largest economy wants to make business transactions easier, from nurturing private enterprises to widening market access. The 30-page draft guidelines...
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1.2KRetailUS Retailer Store Closures Could Top 12K By Yearend
So far this year, 7,062 retail stores have closed, and that number could reach as high as 12,000, which would be an...
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1.9KRetailWalmart Looks For eCommerce Chief Revenue Officer
To help lay out its battle pay to take on Amazon, Target and other competitors, Walmart is on the hunt for a...
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1.5KB2B PaymentsInvestors Eye B2B eCommerce, Expense Tools
Though not the busiest week in B2B venture capital funding, investors presented a clear preference for corporate expense management and B2B eCommerce,...
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1.1KInternationalDocs Show Walmart Lobbied US Gov About India eCom Rules
Reuters is reporting that Walmart communicated privately with the U.S. government in January of this year about India’s new rules for eCommerce,...
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1.2KRetailSam’s Club To Offer Same-Day Grocery Pickup Across US
Walmart-owned Sam’s Club will now offer same-day grocery pickup for online orders, according to sources. The retailer’s announcement comes nearly a year...
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1.3KRetailThe Sharing Economy’s ‘Rotating Wardrobe’ Subscription Prescription
To help make fashion more accessible to consumers, eCommerce innovators are allowing shoppers to rent their clothes and accessories through subscription box...
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1.1KRetailEU: Amazon Not Required To Offer Phone Support
The world’s biggest online retailer doesn’t have to answer your calls, Europe’s top court ruled on July 10. In fact, Amazon doesn’t...
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963RetailHow Beef Jerky Is Driving Digital Payments Innovation
Sometimes entrepreneurs start companies due to a confluence of factors: Prevail Jerky Founder and CEO Glen Kohn, for instance, was inspired to...
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1.2KRetailWhy Prime Day Is About More Than Amazon
The annual retail event known as Amazon Prime Day is about more than Prime or the giant eCommerce operators. It’s also about...
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1.3KRetailLady Gaga Beauty Line Coming To Amazon
In a move that bolsters the eCommerce retailer’s cosmetics business, Lady Gaga plans to roll out a line of beauty items that...
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1.1KRetailCan Digital Platforms Solve The Fraud vs. Friction Dilemma?
Digital platforms facilitate everything from online shopping to ridesharing to booking a hotel. These platforms promise fast, seamless transactions, which most deliver...
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1.5KeCommerceEtsy Unveils Free Shipping Plan For Orders Over $35
Etsy has revealed plans to offer free shipping on orders $35 and over, according to a release by the company. Etsy said...
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1.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsIndian Delivery Co Milkbasket Buys eGrocer PSR Supply Chain
Indian online grocery delivery company Milkbasket has acquired online grocery distributor PSR Supply Chain, according to reports. The amount of the acquisition...
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1.2KToday In DataInnovating With Cashierless Checkout In The UK
Tesco, among other British grocers, is working to bring cashierless shopping to the public in the age of Amazon Go. In other...
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1.5KAmazonKohl’s Views Amazon Returns As Key Sales Driver
Kohl’s has announced that Amazon Returns is now available at more than 1,100 Kohl’s stores nationwide. “The nationwide rollout of the Amazon...
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1.9KArtificial IntelligenceBrighterion And Elavon Strike AI Anti-Fraud Deal For The Acquiring Space
The rise of artificial intelligence is not a single force or event — not like the tide rising in the distance. It is...
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1.3KeCommerceAnalysts Peg Shopify As Growing Amazon Threat
A KeyBanc analyst says Shopify could eventually rival Amazon in gross merchandise volume, according to a report by Bloomberg. Josh Beck wrote...
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1.5KeCommerceProject Verte Launches Blockchain Marketplace For DTC Brands
Project Verte has launched the MyVerte blockchain-based marketplace for direct-to-consumer brands. According to a press release, MyVerte will launch with over 100...
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1.2KToday In DataThe Buy Button’s Evolving Role In eCommerce
Buy buttons are almost a given in 2019, with a majority of eCommerce sites offering at least one. And, in other retail...
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2.0KeCommerceMerchant Adoption Of Multiple Buy Buttons Growing
So-called “buy buttons” have captured the imaginations of online retailers and social media platforms over the years, but they have had far...
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1.7KSubscription CommerceNews Streaming Service Coming To Firefox
A new subscription service for news is in the works from Mozilla, according to a report. It said that Mozilla had previously...
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1.2KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Regulation And eCommerce Loss Blues
This week Amazon.com celebrated its 25th birthday. For the most part it’s been a good two-and-a-half decades, and it is hard to...
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1.3KRetailAmazon Faces Consumer And Regulatory Challenges
While Amazon eyes the next step in its seeming bid for domination around the world, it will have to tackle challenges from...
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1.8KAuthenticationThe Government As Catalyst To Innovating Digital ID
The ongoing and complicated work to build better digital identification systems for commerce and payments involves a host of players. The government...
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1.7KNewsReport: The State Of Buy Buttons In Q2 2019
In the year of 2019, buy buttons are so common, they are almost a given. More than seven in 10 leading eCommerce...
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1.4KDigital PaymentsWhy Contactless Payments Are This Summer’s Big Music Headliner
Cruise ships and musical festivals are not that different from each other, not these days. Both feature large crowds of generally like-minded...
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1.6KRetailWalmart Looks To Sell ModCloth, Will Keep Bonobos
Walmart has reportedly talked about selling three brands that it recently acquired to appeal to younger shoppers, all of which are unprofitable,...
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2.1KInternationalChina To Add More Cross-Border eCommerce Cities To Stabilize Trade
China is going to promote cross-border eCommerce in additional cities as an initiative to stabilize trade in the country, according to a...
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1.8KAmazonAmazon To Charge Some Grocery Brands To Offset Prime Day Losses
With this year’s Prime Day approaching, Amazon is reportedly charging “additional funding” to some brands in the grocery space during Prime Day...
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1.8KRetailWalmart’s eCommerce Business Posts $1B Loss
Walmart’s eCommerce division is projecting losses of $1 billion in its bid to catch up with Amazon, which is causing tensions between...
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1.9KAmazonAmazon Raises Privacy Concerns With Voice Storage Practices
Amazon has confirmed that it keeps Alexa voice data with no intention to delete it unless done so by a customer, and...
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878RetailScrutiny Of Big Tech Could Slow Amazon’s Deal-Making Pace
While Amazon has committed over $20 billion to investments and acquisitions as of 2017, the scrutiny of large tech companies by the...
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2.5KOmnicommerceOmnichannel Moves Beyond Retail
Let’s start this story with a trip to the dentist’s office. No, we don’t want to be there, either, but life requires...
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1.6KeCommerceSame-Day Delivery Wars Heat Up
You know things are getting real – really real – when booze enters into the mix. And that’s what’s happening with same-day...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsAmazon Business Prime Hits UK Market
Ahead of Prime Day this year, Amazon is introducing Business Prime in the U.K., according to reports on Monday (July 1). According...
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1.9KDigital PaymentsIndonesian E-Wallet LinkAja Debuts In Jakarta
A state-owned e-wallet platform called LinkAja was launched on Sunday (June 30) in Jakarta, Indonesia, according to reports. The service was supposed...
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1.4KCommerceSeniors Help Drive Progress In The Digital Economy
Younger consumers — millennials, Generation Z — seem to get all the focus when it comes to eCommerce and digital payments these days....
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1.3KSmarter PaymentsBuilding Project Libra’s Infrastructure From Scratch
Facebook’s Libra crypto push brings together 28 companies (so far), across industries, to shape its charter and go-to-market approach. However, what do...
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1.0KRetailWalmart To Boost Logistics In China With $1.2B Investment
To help upgrade its logistics, Walmart plans to invest $1.2 billion or 8 billion yuan in China over the next 10 years,...
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7.1KInnovationeCommerce … The 1950s Way
Despite the fact that eCommerce has become a way of life in the last two decades, it is harder than it might...
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2.3KThe WeekenderDigital Debit, Libra And The Roaring 2020s Top Week’s News
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plans continued to dominate the week’s news, but Visa and Bank of America both made big news, and new...
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1.5KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Powering Up In-Store Pickup
The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and...
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1.7KRetailThe RealReal Notches $300M In IPO
In its U.S. initial public offering (IPO), eCommerce luxury reseller The RealReal Inc. has notched $300 million. The company priced its shares...
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1.1KRetailWalmart Expands Next-Day Delivery
Walmart is expanding its next-day delivery service before the start of back-to-school shopping season. The retailer is adding more than a dozen...
