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3.4KPayments InnovationDigital Lending’s $1.4T Travel Payments Plan
The family trip to Disney World, the honeymoon to Hawaii, the 25-year anniversary spent in Paris — the big trips people take...
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5.2KIntelligence of ThingsHow Autonomous Cars Will Upend The Grocery Industry
From connected cars to smart ovens, the Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem is projected to grow into every area of consumer life...
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1.6KAppleApple Analyst Predicts Q2 Earnings Will Beat Market Consensus
Despite a warning by Apple CEO Tim Cook about lower revenues for Q1 and disappointing sales of new iPhones and Apple Watches,...
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1.7KAppleThe World Anxiously Anticipates Apple’s Earnings
All eyes are on Cupertino, 24 hours almost to the minute before Apple’s earnings will be reported. Apple faces a very different...
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2.6KeCommerceAmazon Grows Exclusive Product Lines From Outside Brands
Amazon wants to get more exclusive — and it wants other companies to help with that effort by developing product lines meant...
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2.5KToday In DataToday In Data: Payment Protocols In The Age Of PSD2
The European Union’s (EU’s) PSD2 is making merchants that deal with payment data from Eurozone citizens enhance their payment protocols. In other...
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2.3KRetailAzazie Disrupts Bridal Retail With Crowdsourced Designs
The bridal industry has been a rapidly shifting place of late, because the up-and-coming generation of millennials (presently the most marrying demographic)...
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5.0KRetailWhy Mobile Order-Ahead Is A Must-Have Ingredient For QSRs
To help serve diners who crave convenience, restaurants and solution providers have started to test and grow their mobile ordering services. The...
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2.1KRetailCan Robots Be The Future Of College Food Delivery?
In an age when food delivery aggregators are making a push to attract students, universities are bringing food delivery into their dining...
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2.7KRetailRobots Tasked With Restocking Retailers’ Shelves
Retailers have been testing out shelf-scanning robots to find out if they can handle restocking a store’s inventory when needed. “We’re giving...
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4.3KMobile ApplicationsWeChat App Update Could Mean Bad News For Apple
Here’s another headache for Apple, which is already dealing with weakening iPhone sales: Its hold on Chinese mobile consumers looks set to...
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3.0KRetailCredit Suisse Out $60M After Chinese Boycott Of Canada Goose
Credit Suisse Group AG, a global financial services group, lost about $60 million after shares it held in Canada Goose plummeted in...
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2.8KInternationalSmartphone Makers Press India For Export Credits, Lower Tariffs
An association of smartphone manufacturers that includes Apple, Huawei, Oppo and Foxconn has submitted a 174-page report to the Indian government asking...
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6.0KRetailNectar Sleep Beds Down With Mattress Warehouse; Starbucks Expands Delivery With Uber Eats
In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and...
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4.4KRetailHow Top Merchants Are Tackling Subscription Conversions
To make life easier for customers, companies in many different industries, from consumer packaged goods to luxury automobiles, are adopting the subscription...
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3.6KRetailZappos On Running Shoes, Personalized eTail And Offline Realness
There is perhaps no pickier sub-group of shoe enthusiasts than runners. The average distance runner goes through three pairs of sneakers per...
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2.8KToday In DataToday In Data: Driving Contactless Adoption With Community Banks
Community banks could put more contactless cards into the hands of consumers with the help of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). At the same...
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2.1KRetailFurniture Retailer Article Launches ADT Delivery Program
Digitally-native furniture and home décor retailer Article has launched an in-house delivery program in Los Angeles and New York. The company’s Article...
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3.5KeCommerceWalmart Removes Products From Google Shopping, Express
There’s an old saying in battle that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. In eCommerce, all sorts of alliances emerge, with...
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2.6KAppleApple Wants To Equip Devices With Carbon Monoxide Detector
Apple has been granted a patent that would equip future devices with built-in sensors that can detect harmful, poisonous gasses, such as carbon...
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2.7KRetailOnline Liquidation Enjoys Fresh Growth As More Consumers Embrace Returns
If you are the gambling or adventurous type, and have a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket or purse,...
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2.8KDebtMore Americans Inch Toward Maxing Out Cards
Taking it to the limit, indeed. News came this week that global debt – that which is shouldered by governments and the...
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2.6KMobileGlobal App Spending Hit $101M In 2018, Driven By Developing Market Growth
Smartphone sales may be slowing, but the apps that consumers like to download and use on those phones are getting plenty of...
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2.7KRegulationUS Gov’t Pressures India Over eCommerce Rules
The United States government is raising concerns about India’s eCommerce regulations that go into effect on Feb. 1, which will prevent companies...
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2.0KRetailSeatGeek On Driving The Future Of Ticket Sales Via Rideshares
Ridesharing services aren’t just a way for passengers to get from Point A to Point B: They can also enable retailers and...
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2.2KToday In DataToday In Data: The Subscription Features Consumers Want
Target plans to bring contactless payments to all stores in the United States over the next several weeks. More retailers are tapping...
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1.9KRetailMinted And Creating Retail Via Up-Vote For The Instacrowd
Minted, the online stationery and printed goods business that specializes in greeting cards, children’s murals, artwork and other printed items, doesn’t go about design...
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3.0KRetailHow AR/VR Tech Is Reshaping Retail
Before consumers started to trade brick-and-mortar shopping experiences for eCommerce websites, retailers could bring customers through their doors with window displays. Now,...
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2.0KRetailSam’s Club Extends Partnership With Synchrony
Synchrony announced that it has extended its partnership with Sam’s Club to continue offering financing options through the Sam’s Club-branded credit cards....
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1.9KPersonnelDoorDash Hires Uber Eats Exec As New VP of Engineering
DoorDash announced that it has hired another Uber executive to join its team. This time, the new hire is Ryan Sokol, who...
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1.9KRetailNectar Sleep Partners With Mattress Warehouse
The eCommerce mattress company Nectar Sleep has announced that it has partnered with Mattress Warehouse. Nectar’s mattresses will roll out to Mattress...
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2.3KLegalWalgreens Agrees To $60M Settlement For Overpriced Prescriptions
Walgreens has agreed to pay $60 million to settle allegations that it overcharged government healthcare plans for prescription drugs. The settlement, which...
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2.3KRetailShopRunner Gets UPS Investment, Acquires Precognitive
Online shopping network ShopRunner has had a big week. First, it announced an investment from UPS which will allow both companies to boost their retailer...
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3.6KeCommerceOnline Sales Of Used Goods Spreads Globally — And Is Growing Up
What’s new is old – and then new again. That’s not some silly riddle, but a description of a growing part of...
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2.6KRetailLegal Canadian Marijuana Sales Top $40M In First Month
One month after Canada legalized marijuana for everyone in the country, Canadians spent C$54 million ($41 million) on the product, according to...
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2.3KRetailTudecora’s Clerk-Free Furniture Experience
The automated checkout process — where the customers can shop and check out without ever interacting with a human employee — is...
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1.7KToday In DataToday In Data: The Smart Shopping Cart Of The Future
Retail startup Caper is reinventing the grocery store experience with a shopping cart that automatically checks out the items shoppers place inside...
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2.1KRetailTapping Into Mobile Order-Ahead With Fixed-Price Menus
While working in Washington, D.C, TwentyTables Founder and CEO Alex Cohen thought he had three options for an affordable lunch: He could...
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4.1KRetailChina To Displace US As Leading Retail Market
China is expected to displace the U.S. this year as the leading retail market around the world. According to eMarketer’s worldwide retail...
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1.9KInvestmentsIndian eCommerce Used Car Marketplace Raises $14M
Truebil, an online marketplace to buy and sell second-hand cars, has raised $14 million in a Series B round led by Japanese...
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4.4KRetailVisa: Why Target’s Tap-And-Pay Leap Will Ignite Contactless Cards
After many years as a holdout in the world of near-field communication (NFC) payments, Target grabbed a lot of headlines yesterday (Jan. 22) with its...
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4.5KRetailThe VR Effect On Retail: Fad Or True Game-Changer?
Move aside, storefront mannequins. Hot on the heels of its close cousin, augmented reality (AR), more retailers are using immersive virtual reality...
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2.8KeCommerceFlipkart Preps For eCommerce Change, Invests $201M In Wholesale Unit
Flipkart, a huge eCommerce company in India, has invested $201 million into its wholesale unit, in a bid to stay relevant in...
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4.6KMobile PaymentsApple Pay Gets Support From Target, Taco Bell, Other Retailers
Apple announced Tuesday (Jan. 22) that Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee supermarkets in the Midwest, Speedway convenience stores and Jack in the Box all...
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3.5KAppleApple To Drop LCD Displays In Next iPhone Lineup
Apple is expected to get rid of LCD displays for its 2020 line of iPhones, offering completely organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays....
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3.3KAmazon ProfileAmazon Preps Brazilian Fulfillment And Delivery Network
Amazon is getting ready to launch the fulfillment and delivery network it has long been eyeing in Brazil, reported Reuters. Citing Amazon...
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4.4KRegulationMastercard Fined $648M Over X-Border EU Interchange Fees
Mastercard was slapped with a $648.3 million fine by the European Union, which alleged that the payments company raised the costs of...
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5.1KRetailDon Lee Farms’ Veggie Burger That Bleeds Goes Global
The animal agriculture industry is, on the whole, not great for the planet Earth. According to some estimates, industrialized animal agriculture is...
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3.7KeCommerceActivist Investor Pushes eBay To Drop StubHub And Classifieds
It’s time for eBay to say goodbye to StubHub. That was the takeaway from a letter sent by Elliott Management Corp. to eBay,...
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3.2KRetailGrocers’ In-Store Innovations For Boosting Consumer Spend
For many consumers, trips to the grocery store are a routine part of their everyday lives. In deciding where to shop, these...
