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.

Business Buying Habits Are Shifting, But It’s Not Necessarily All About Speed
Business Buying Habits Are Shifting, But It’s Not Necessarily All About Speed
November 06, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Business buying habits are shifting, and while B2B eCommerce may be about speed and convenience when professionals want to purchase office supplies, the procurement process...

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Africa’s Internet-Connected Population Provides Opportunity For Mobile Money
Africa’s Internet-Connected Population Provides Opportunity For Mobile Money
November 05, 2018  |  International

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, almost 90 percent of all payments and transactions are based on cash. But there is a large opportunity to...

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style
Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style
November 05, 2018  |  Retail

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S....

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Amazon’s AbeBooks Faces Ban From Antiquarian Book Dealers
Amazon’s AbeBooks Faces Ban From Antiquarian Book Dealers
November 05, 2018  |  Amazon

Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website owned by Amazon...

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Ant Financial Posts Rare Quarterly Loss
Ant Financial Posts Rare Quarterly Loss
November 05, 2018  |  Earnings

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 USD) for the...

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Adobe: Why Voice And Touch Retail Will Boost 2018 Holiday Sales
Adobe: Why Voice And Touch Retail Will Boost 2018 Holiday Sales
November 05, 2018  |  Retail

Consumers want to touch before they buy, and they want to talk when they purchase. Those promise to stand as two main traits of the...

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Will Amazon, eBay And Apple Have A Happy Holiday Season?
Will Amazon, eBay And Apple Have A Happy Holiday Season?
November 02, 2018  |  Retail

After Halloween comes the lucrative holiday shopping season — sorry, Thanksgiving, but you’re only a speed bump — but there are serious questions about how happy...

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Alibaba Trims Guidance on Macro Uncertainty, Consumer Count Up 4 Percent
Alibaba Trims Guidance on Macro Uncertainty, Consumer Count Up 4 Percent
November 02, 2018  |  Earnings

For Alibaba, the situation is a fluid one — uncertain enough on a macro level to cut guidance — as the Chinese consumer continues to...

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Retail Pulse: goop Finds Stickiness In New York, Opens ‘Lab’; Nordstrom To Offer Early-Bird Pickup
Retail Pulse: goop Finds Stickiness In New York, Opens ‘Lab’; Nordstrom To Offer Early-Bird Pickup
November 02, 2018  |  Retail

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. Lifestyle...

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