ecommerce

eCommerce (also known as electronic commerce) is a process of buying and selling of products or services, making money transfers, and transferring data over an electronic medium (Internet). This network allows people to do business with no barrier of distance and time.

SoftBank Leads $140M Investment In eComm Company VTEX
SoftBank Leads $140M Investment In eComm Company VTEX
November 22, 2019  |  Investments

VTEX, an eCommerce company that has helped companies like Walmart sell online, has raised $140 million in a funding round led by SoftBank’s Latin American...

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Top News In Payments: The Fed Takes A Closer Look At Big Tech; Goldman CEO Denies Apple Card Credit Bias Claims
Top News In Payments: The Fed Takes A Closer Look At Big Tech; Goldman CEO...
November 22, 2019  |  News

In today’s top payments news, ongoing security concerns have caused the Federal Reserve to take a closer look at the Big Tech firms that serve...

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Toy Retail Innovations: Walmart Launches ‘Toy Lab’; Target Teams With Toys R Us
Toy Retail Innovations: Walmart Launches ‘Toy Lab’; Target Teams With Toys R Us
November 22, 2019  |  Retail

It’s that time of year: toy-buying season. Things have changed for that retail and consumer tradition, though, and toys serve as a constant source of...

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Jet To Discontinue NYC Fresh Food Delivery
Jet To Discontinue NYC Fresh Food Delivery
November 22, 2019  |  Retail

With another indication that the urban-focused site is scaling back, the Jet subsidiary of Walmart is concluding its fresh-food delivery business only a year after...

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Betting On A Big Mall Fizzle
Betting On A Big Mall Fizzle
November 22, 2019  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

The holidays are approaching. The money that comes into retailers’ coffers at brick-and-mortar locations will filter up to pay the landlord; the landlord will stay...

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Why DTC Is A Better Path Than A Marketplace For Bespoke Offerings
Why DTC Is A Better Path Than A Marketplace For Bespoke Offerings
November 22, 2019  |  Retail

When it comes to their pets, Americans are more than willing to shell out impressively large sums of cash. In 2018, American consumers spent $70 billion...

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Online Marketplaces Attract Consumers – And Fraudsters, Too
Online Marketplaces Attract Consumers – And Fraudsters, Too
November 22, 2019  |  Today In Data

Payments made through the platform economy, through the online marketplaces that bring together individual buyers and seller – sometimes far-flung – happen in an instant. So...

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L’Oréal’s Integration With Salesforce Brings eCommerce Boost
L’Oréal’s Integration With Salesforce Brings eCommerce Boost
November 22, 2019  |  Retail

L’Oréal has been using various cloud-based enterprise and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions from Salesforce to sell its products online, resulting in a 48.5 percent...

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Moving Issuers — And Auth Rates — Past Fraud Prevention To Revenue Protection
Moving Issuers — And Auth Rates — Past Fraud Prevention To Revenue Protection
November 22, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Fraud is hardly a new phenomenon in retail — in fact, it is probably safe to assume that fraud in some form or other has...

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