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385eCommerceBigCommerce Announces Support For Venmo And Masterpass
BigCommerce, the eCommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, announced Wednesday (November 14) the addition of Venmo and Masterpass as supported payment...
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455RetailRetailers Team With Providers For eCommerce Payments’ Tear
Online shopping is on a tear, and marketplaces are reaping the rewards. Some sites are seeing more active buyers and higher gross...
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962AmazonWhat’s Next For Real Estate In Amazon’s HQ2 Cities?
Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already),...
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676Platform PaymentsHow Choice Can Set Platform Providers Apart From Competition
One quarter of customers will abandon purchases if a merchant doesn’t accept their preferred payment method. However, managing payments made in 180...
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987AmazonAmazon Gains Juicy Incentives With New Headquarters Locations
No offense against a great part of New York City, but sometimes it can take a little bit of a push to...
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1.8KRetailChinese Consumers Favor Biometric Payments On Singles’ Day
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day shopping event on Nov. 11 was a huge success; with $30.8 billion in transactions, it surpassed Cyber Monday and...
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1.0KRetailAlibaba, JD.com And Singles Day’s Global Brand Consumption Grand Slam
Alibaba celebrated a milestone with its Singles Day this year. The popular Chinese shopping holiday turned 10. To top off the decade,...
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788RetailBrooklinen Pops Up And Branches Out To Cap Off 2018
A luxury product paired with direct-to-consumer sales – which brings the luxury item’s price down into more solidly middle-class territory – is...
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1.2KeCommerceCanIDeal Debuts First Cannabis eCommerce Platform
CanIDeal has announced that vendors of cannabis-related products can now start listing their merchandise on its eCommerce portal. “While we are only...
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1.6KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: BigCommerce On How Platforms Solve Big eCommerce Payment Complexities
When consumers make a purchase online or through a mobile app, they expect the process to be simple and secure. However, they...
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1.0KToday In DataToday In Data: Fighting The Many Flavors Of Friction
If one had to take digitization and sum it up under a single goal, fighting friction would probably be as good a...
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1.1KData DiveData Dive, Three S’s Edition: Singles Day, Swift And Settlements
With 49 days left in the year, there are 42 shopping days left until Christmas, and the official sprint to the end...
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1.7KMerchant InnovationPODCAST: Why Merchants Should Go ‘Auth Shopping’
Decline rates are on the rise, reaching 30 percent of CNP transactions, depending on where one looks. Bruce Parker, CEO of ModoPayments,...
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1.9KAmazonAmazon Takes On FedEx, UPS With 50 Pct Price Cut On Delivery
In an effort to get more sellers to use the shipping service it launched earlier in 2018, eCommerce giant Amazon is offering...
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3.4KRetailThis Weekend’s $25B Shopping Event
When Singles Day launched nearly a decade ago, the then-fledgling eCommerce brand Alibaba didn’t really think they were changing the face of...
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3.6KBlockchainOverstock Talks Up Its Blockchain-Based Future
Overstock may be best known as an eCommerce business, but these days its CEO and Founder Patrick Byrne is much more interested...
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2.5KEarningsYelp Stock Slammed On Advertiser Losses
Yelp would seem to have an enviable place in the digital future. Take the emerging world of connected cars, where various players...
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2.6KAppleApple To Sell iPhones, iPads, Watches On Amazon
In an effort to provide customers with access to items like the iPhone XR and the new iPad Pro, Amazon has reportedly...
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2.5KANTITRUSTICC: Flipkart, Amazon Not Abusing Competitive Position
Walmart’s Flipkart, and Amazon, have not broken competitive rules in India through their respective efforts to promote certain brands or select certain...
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1.7KRetailRetail Pulse: Glossier Goes Experiential In NYC; Holiday Retail Sales May Top $1 Trillion
It’s not uncommon for brands to open permanent stores after experimenting with pop-ups, but Glossier is taking an innovative payments approach to...
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2.4KInnovationRetail Innovation Has Changed — Can SMBs Keep Up?
It’s not your father’s customer loyalty anymore. The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in...
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1.8KRetailBread On Why The Early Financing Offer Catches The Conversion Worm
Offering financing to consumers can be a tremendous marketing and customer retention tool for retailers that do it right. The trick, Bread CTO and Co-founder Daniel...
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2.7KRetailThoughts Of Holiday Retail Cheer Tempered By Memories Of Failure
It’s the big stage for retailers, the holiday shopping season – when all the consumer world is watching (and, merchants and payments...
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1.5KToday In DataToday In Data: The Rise Of Faster Payment Systems
Businesses are able to deliver funds to buyers, sellers, employees and suppliers quicker than ever before with the rise of faster payment...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsPNC Bank Tests CNP Fraud Solution For Commercial Cards
PNC Bank’s Treasury Management unit is testing a new solution to address card-not-present (CNP) fraud for commercial clients. The company said in a...
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1.6KSmarter PaymentsHow Smarter Payments Help Build Smart Marketplaces
Not every eCommerce platform is as user-friendly as Amazon. Craigslist and its ilk, for instance, still require buyers and sellers to meet...
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2.0KSecurity & FraudPing Identity Survey Shows Consumers Will Go To Great Lengths To Protect Their Data
Ping Identity, the Identity Defined Security (IDS) company, announced on Wednesday (Nov. 7) that it has released the results of the Ping...
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1.8KRetailHow Clandestina (Literally) Snuck Into The US Market
Starting a new business is never easy, and new apparel lines are particularly challenging. There are many, many retailers and brands trying...
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1.3KRetailEtsy Excels Amid Accelerating GMS
Amid growth in active buyers and gross merchandise sales (GMS), Etsy beat analysts’ estimates for the third quarter. The art and crafts...
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1.4KAmazonAmazon Copies Sears, Publishes Holiday Toy Catalog
Amazon is launching its first-ever printed holiday toy catalog, shipping “A Holiday of Play” to millions of its customers starting this month....
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2.5KNewsFive At Five: France Aims To Tax Big Tech
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest European push...
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1.9KRetailUS Holiday Sales May Top $1 Trillion This Year
With strong income growth, increased customer confidence and low unemployment, U.S. holiday sales may top $1 trillion this year. eMarketer noted that...
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1.0KRetailDeliverr Vying To Become ‘Uber’ Of Ground Shipping In eCommerce
Before Michael Krakaris co-founded an online fulfillment platform for eCommerce merchants, he learned firsthand how companies could reinvent messy spaces with software. One...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsBusiness Buying Habits Are Shifting, But It’s Not Necessarily All About Speed
Business buying habits are shifting, and while B2B eCommerce may be about speed and convenience when professionals want to purchase office supplies,...
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1.9KInternationalAfrica’s Internet-Connected Population Provides Opportunity For Mobile Money
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, almost 90 percent of all payments and transactions are based on cash. But there is a...
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2.5KRetailDigital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style
To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers...
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1.4KAmazonAmazon’s AbeBooks Faces Ban From Antiquarian Book Dealers
Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website...
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2.6KEarningsAnt Financial Posts Rare Quarterly Loss
Ant Financial, the Chinese FinTech giant and an affiliate of Alibaba Group, posted an earnings pre-tax loss of 2.4 billion yuan ($353 million...
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3.1KRetailAdobe: Why Voice And Touch Retail Will Boost 2018 Holiday Sales
Consumers want to touch before they buy, and they want to talk when they purchase. Those promise to stand as two main...
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2.4KRetailWill Amazon, eBay And Apple Have A Happy Holiday Season?
After Halloween comes the lucrative holiday shopping season — sorry, Thanksgiving, but you’re only a speed bump — but there are serious questions...
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2.2KEarningsAlibaba Trims Guidance on Macro Uncertainty, Consumer Count Up 4 Percent
For Alibaba, the situation is a fluid one — uncertain enough on a macro level to cut guidance — as the Chinese...
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2.6KRetailRetail Pulse: goop Finds Stickiness In New York, Opens ‘Lab’; Nordstrom To Offer Early-Bird Pickup
Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with...
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1.6KRetailAmazon Opens Black Friday Store, Teams With Kenmore For Parts
To provide shoppers with greater access to sales and deals, Amazon opened a Black Friday Deals Store on Thursday (Nov. 1.) The...
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2.0KAmazonAmazon’s HQ2 To Be Decided By IQ And EQ
Amazon.com’s chief executive Jeff Bezos said he will pore over all the data when choosing Amazon’s second headquarter, but then it comes...
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1.8KeCommerceSamsung Pay Gets Online Boost With Braintree Integration
Braintree, the eCommerce payments company owned by PayPal, announced Thursday (October 1) that Braintree merchants in the U.S. can now accept Samsung...
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1.6KRetailDaily Harvest Pops Up In Manhattan
When one looks at the statistics on American eating habits, two things become pretty clear. The first is that, on average, Americans...
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1.6KRetail
Online Spending Could Top $124B Over The Holidays
Amid a change in shopping habits from brick-and-mortar to eCommerce, online spending is expected to reach $124.1 billion this holiday season —...
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1.5KBankingVietnam’s Largest Bank May Soon Open US Branch
Vietnam’s biggest bank has made a significant step in becoming the first Vietnamese bank to open a branch in the United States....
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1.7KOmnicommerceHow Lowe’s AR Bridges The Gap Between Real And Imaginary
Buying and selling home improvement goods has long been a source of frustration for consumers and merchants alike. For shoppers, installing something...
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3.5KRetailSecond Amazon 4-Star Store Set To Open In Colorado
Amazon.com is gearing up to open an Amazon 4-star store in Colorado later Thursday (November 1). According to a report in CNET citing...
