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.

Phone Data Adds Depth To Emailage Risk Assessment
Phone Data Adds Depth To Emailage Risk Assessment
November 13, 2017  |  Startup Check-In

As its name suggests, Emailage, an Arizona-based identity verification startup, uses customers’ email addresses to deliver risk scores to financial institutions (FIs) and online merchants....

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Spotify Expands Into Selling Makeup
Spotify Expands Into Selling Makeup
November 13, 2017  |  Retail

While best known as a $16 billion music streaming service, Spotify is expanding its ambitions and diversifying its platform — possibly in preparation for an initial public offering...

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Alibaba’s Singles Day Tops $25B, Crushing 2016 Record
Alibaba’s Singles Day Tops $25B, Crushing 2016 Record
November 13, 2017  |  International

Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese eCommerce giant, saw gross merchandise volume of $25.3 billion for this year’s Singles Day Global Shopping Festival, up 39 percent...

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Trouva Nabs $10M To Help UK SMBs Compete With Amazon
Trouva Nabs $10M To Help UK SMBs Compete With Amazon
November 13, 2017  |  Investments

Trouva, an online marketplace for merchants that don’t sell their products online, has raised $10 million in a new round of venture funding. Get the...

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Analyst Says Overstock Should Ditch Retail To Focus On Blockchain
Analyst Says Overstock Should Ditch Retail To Focus On Blockchain
November 13, 2017  |  Blockchain

Overstock got its price target lifted last week after the company indicated that it could sell the home eCommerce unit to focus more on its...

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Whole Foods, Prime Now and AmazonFresh Are Now Under A Single Executive Leader
Whole Foods, Prime Now and AmazonFresh Are Now Under A Single Executive Leader
November 09, 2017  |  Amazon Commerce

Amazon’s physical retail and fast delivery businesses are now under a single leader, company veteran Steve Kessel, according to Thursday reports from the Wall Street Journal. Get...

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Betting On Style For The Short-On-Time
Betting On Style For The Short-On-Time
November 06, 2017  |  Retail

The world is full of people who want to look nice but don’t have the kind of enthusiasm (or time) for retail commerce that would...

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Why Amazon’s Prices In Australia Are So Low
Why Amazon’s Prices In Australia Are So Low
November 06, 2017  |  Amazon

When it enters the Australian market, Amazon will be able to roll out prices that undercut its rivals – and many of those prices could...

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Getting Retailers To The Point Of No Returns
Getting Retailers To The Point Of No Returns
November 02, 2017  |  Retail

What’s the worst part of the holidays? It could be a draw between Aunt Martha’s fruitcake that nobody really wants, Uncle Eddie’s drunken political rants...

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