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IKEA Cancels Planned Stores Amid Focus On eCommerce

IKEA Cancels Planned Stores Amid Focus On eCommerce
IKEA Cancels Planned Stores Amid Focus On eCommerce
June 04, 2018  |  Retail

Following years of U.S. growth, IKEA is reining in its brick-and-mortar expansion efforts: The furniture retailer cancelled planned stores in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arizona. Instead,...

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Biometrics Could Be The Future Of mPOS
Biometrics Could Be The Future Of mPOS
June 04, 2018  |  Biometrics

Tap to pay. Dip to pay. Smile to pay. Forget reinventing the payments wheel — it seems many innovators are looking to replace it. As bigger...

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HelloFresh Comes To The Grocery Aisle
HelloFresh Comes To The Grocery Aisle
June 04, 2018  |  Retail

As meal kits from companies, such as Blue Apron and Plated, begin to appear on supermarket shelves, HelloFresh will soon sell its meal kits in...

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Advent Buys 80 Percent Stake In Walmart Brazil
Advent Buys 80 Percent Stake In Walmart Brazil
June 04, 2018  |  Retail

As Walmart refocuses its worldwide operations, Advent International plans to take a 80 percent stake in the retailer’s business in Brazil. With such a deal, Walmart...

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Flipkart Will Still Be A Board-Run Company With Walmart Deal
Flipkart Will Still Be A Board-Run Company With Walmart Deal
June 04, 2018  |  Retail

While Walmart has taken a majority stake in Flipkart, the company’s operating structure will remain the same: Flipkart Co-founder and Group CEO Binny Bansal said that...

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Mastercard Announces The Launch Of AI Express
Mastercard Announces The Launch Of AI Express
June 04, 2018  |  Mastercard

To help companies that want to jump into the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution — but are perhaps unsure where to actually start — the team...

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Facebook Faces Scrutiny For Sharing Info With Device Makers
Facebook Faces Scrutiny For Sharing Info With Device Makers
June 04, 2018  |  Facebook / Meta

As it turns out, Facebook handed an awful lot of user information over to phone and other device makers as it pushed to become the...

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Lyft Plans to Buy a Bike-Sharing Company
Lyft Plans to Buy a Bike-Sharing Company
June 04, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Lyft will buy the bike-sharing company Motivate, according to report in The Information. The potential deal follows a similar move by Uber in April. Get...

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