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Jet.com Turns One
July 22, 2016

There are certainly no shortage of online marketplaces out there, but only one of them has attached itself to the epithet of “Amazon killer.” For better or worse, that honor over the last 12 months has gone to Jet.com, and as it celebrates its first...

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eBay’s Earnings Show Second Quarter Of Strength
July 21, 2016

Doing some work to counteract the image that eBay is struggling with since its amicable divorce with PayPal, eBay has posted its second straight quarter of sales gains. The market surely took the results as a sign of a corner being turned, as stocks were...

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StubHub Pushes Closer To Primary Ticketing Platform Status With The Acquisition Of Ticket Utils
July 15, 2016

It looks like StubHub is getting an upgrade – care of parent company eBay’s latest acquisition. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...

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Scott Thompson Leaves ShopRunner
July 13, 2016

After four years running Alibaba-backed eCommerce platform ShopRunner, Scott Thompson is stepping down from the role of CEO to pursue a new entrepreneurial venture. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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eCommerce Business Blue Acorn Slashes Jobs
July 11, 2016

Blue Acorn, the company that says it uses “data to turn eCommerce into science,” is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs but says its business is still growing, according to The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Facebook Messenger’s 11,000 Bot Expansion
July 05, 2016

According to reports emerging late last week, over 11,000 new chatbots have hit the beach on Facebook’s Messenger, with 23,000 developers waiting in the wings after having signed up for the platform’s bot engine. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Online Grocery Sales Growing Sharply
July 05, 2016

Consumers are increasingly willing to do their food shopping online. That is the takeaway from a new Harris Poll that indicates about a third of American consumers have ordered something to eat off the web in recent memory. If consumers who never buy anything online...

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UPS Expands Locker Pick-Up
July 01, 2016

UPS is making it easier for consumers to pick up their packages on their own time with the expansion of its Access Point smart locker package pick-up program. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Will Apple And Tidal Make Beautiful Music Together?
July 01, 2016

In one of the more surprising pieces of news taking the cycle home before the Fourth of July weekend, Apple is in talks to buy Jay-Z’s musician-centric streaming service Tidal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...