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Walmart Shares Skyrocket As Retailer Moves Into E-Commerce, Reports Best Sales Growth In A Decade

Walmart Shares Skyrocket As Retailer Moves Into E-Commerce, Reports Best Sales Growth In A Decade

A rock-solid earnings report today for retail giant Walmart has finally put fears to rest amongst investors and consumers alike that the blue and yellow brand may be losing too much ground to competitors like Amazon, according to CNN Money. Digital sales surged by an enormous 40 percent, likely aided by a complete teardown and […]

6y ago

Trump Executive Orders: ‘Trade War’ Over Mexico Wall, Muslim Ban Predicted

Trump Executive Orders: ‘Trade War’ Over Mexico Wall, Muslim Ban Predicted

Will President Donald Trump end up being bad for American businesses because of the isolationist nature of his executive orders such as slashing business regulations, being a climate change denier, imposing a Muslim ban, or building the Mexico border wall? Trump has been signing a number of executive orders during his first week as president, […]

8y ago

Walmart Grocery Delivery Test To Have Uber, Lyft Delivering To Customers’ Homes, Details Here

Walmart Grocery Delivery Test To Have Uber, Lyft Delivering To Customers’ Homes, Details Here

A Walmart grocery delivery test is underway as the retail giant has announced that it is piloting delivery with Uber, Lyft, and Deliv. Suddenly, the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans are just within reach. Walmart grocery delivery does already exist in San Jose and Denver, but the new pilot could be just the […]

8y ago

Facebook Messenger Becomes More Ecommerce Friendly With Business Chat Bots And Mobile Wallet

Facebook Messenger Becomes More Ecommerce Friendly With Business Chat Bots And Mobile Wallet

Facebook is continuing to update its Facebook Messenger to become more ecommerce friendly as it seeks to become the dominant messenger service in the world. Messenger has become more flexible in the way it can be used, including simple chat bots so businesses can answer simple questions automatically, a digital wallet that allows users to […]

8y ago

Amazon Buy Box Battleground: How Do Sellers Win the Buy Box War?

Amazon Buy Box Battleground: How Do Sellers Win the Buy Box War?

Every Amazon seller who wants to succeed on the e-commerce platform knows one thing: they must learn how to master winning the Amazon Buy Box. According to Marketing Land, over 70 percent of Amazon’s customers shopped using a mobile device during the 2015 holiday season. This number is up by 10 percent since the 2014 […]

8y ago

Amazon Leases Planes – eCommerce Giant Aiming To Make Its Own Deliveries And Save $11.5 Billion Annually?

Amazon Leases Planes – eCommerce Giant Aiming To Make Its Own Deliveries And Save $11.5 Billion Annually?

Amazon has leased planes to ferry its cargo across the length and breadth of the United States. The eCommerce giant is increasingly attempting to make its own deliveries and save a ton of money in the process. Amazon Inc. announced it has leased about 20 cargo planes. The e-retailer has been experimenting with multiple techniques […]

8y ago

Jessica Alba’s eCom Venture Gearing Up For IPO? Share Market Debut of ‘Honest’ Reportedly Assisted By Goldman Sachs And Morgan Stanley [Video]

Jessica Alba’s eCom Venture Gearing Up For IPO? Share Market Debut of ‘Honest’ Reportedly Assisted By Goldman Sachs And Morgan Stanley [Video]

Jessica Alba’s eCommerce venture is reportedly getting ready for an IPO. Honest Company, which sells baby products online, is being assisted by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for its share market debut. Honest Company, an online shopping startup that was co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, is gearing up for an IPO, reports Bloomberg. The report […]

9y ago

E-Commerce Goes Social, Twitter ‘Buy It Now’ To Revolutionize Retail

E-Commerce Goes Social, Twitter ‘Buy It Now’ To Revolutionize Retail

Twitter is partnering with the major E-commerce platforms to expand its tweets into the online retail business. The micro blogging site is already used by retailers to showcase products and now each post itself can be a product which can be clicked on and purchased. 67% of Twitter users use it to learn about products. […]

9y ago

Walmart Loses Retail Crown To Amazon

Walmart Loses Retail Crown To Amazon

With thousands of retail locations and an overwhelming online presence, Walmart has forged their name as king of retail… until now. So how did Amazon, with only warehouses and an aged web presence, convincingly overtake Walmart as most valuable retail establishment? Well, nobody really knows, but it happened last night in after hours trading as […]

9y ago

Borderless Ecommerce Allows Emerging Markets To Continue To Grow: Here’s How To Grow Your Ecommerce Business Now

Borderless Ecommerce Allows Emerging Markets To Continue To Grow: Here’s How To Grow Your Ecommerce Business Now

As ecommerce continues to expand across the globe, companies large and small have an opportunity to grow their revenues to make more money for their businesses. With 40 percent of internet users having bought something online, and an expected revenue of $1.59 trillion in sales, there really is no better opportunity than now to grow […]

9y ago

Google Quietly Testing A New Contextually Aware Mobile Payment System – Retiring Wallet?

Google Quietly Testing A New Contextually Aware Mobile Payment System – Retiring Wallet?

Google seems to be in the process of testing a contextually-aware mobile payment system. Codenamed “Plaso” (pronounced as Play-So), Google appears to be extensively testing a new mobile-only payment system around some of the company’s offices. Popular eateries around the company’s offices like Papa John’s and Panera Bread are quietly participating in the real-life testing […]

10y ago

SkyMall Going Out Of Business, Files For Bankruptcy — Will It Be Missed?

SkyMall Going Out Of Business, Files For Bankruptcy — Will It Be Missed?

SkyMall, the ubiquitous inflight magazine that served as catalog-based shopping mall, has filed for bankruptcy protection. After 25 years of offering ingenious products that frequently bordered on being outrageous, quirky, or plain indulgent, SkyMall filed for bankruptcy protection this week. Perhaps a victim of relaxing rules and the rising use of technology during flights, the […]

10y ago

Amazon UK Mistakenly Sent $5,600 Worth Of Goods To A Student, Told Him He Could Keep Them All – For Free

Amazon UK Mistakenly Sent $5,600 Worth Of Goods To A Student, Told Him He Could Keep Them All – For Free

A student was in for the surprise of a lifetime when goods worth thousands of dollars started pouring in on his doorstep. But Christmas definitely came early for him when he was asked to simply keep them by Amazon, the company for whom the goods were meant. The student, Robert Quinn, 22, started receiving parcels […]

10y ago

The Online Illicit Drug eCommerce Is Booming, Despite FBI’s Best Efforts

The Online Illicit Drug eCommerce Is Booming, Despite FBI’s Best Efforts

In the old days, drugs had to be procured from ‘friends’ or ‘dealers.’ However, with the advent of internet and eCommerce, drug peddlers too have gone online. As The Washington Post had earlier reported, anyone with a little knowledge of how the internet works could purchase contraband very easily. Exactly a year ago, the Federal […]

10y ago

PayPal And eBay Splitting Into Two Companies, And What That Means For You

PayPal And eBay Splitting Into Two Companies, And What That Means For You

A 12-year internet marriage is coming to an end. It was announced Tuesday as eBay revealed that it plans to spin off PayPal into a separate company in late 2015. What will the eBay-PayPal split mean for you? eBay snapped up PayPal in 2002 during a wave of dot-com consolidations, paying $1.5 billion for PayPal […]

10y ago

Alibaba Could Hit A Lofty Valuation Of $1 Trillion, Is The Pedestal Deserved?

Alibaba Could Hit A Lofty Valuation Of $1 Trillion, Is The Pedestal Deserved?

Alibaba, a global virtual Business-To-Business (B2B) platform, will have its stocks officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today. What’s important about the company is that its valuation is expected to be the largest ever. As per latest estimates, the Chinese e-commerce giant will reportedly price its shares between $66 and $68 each, […]

10y ago

eBay Down: Did Hackers Crash eBay’s 19th Birthday Party?

eBay Down: Did Hackers Crash eBay’s 19th Birthday Party?

eBay is down and sellers are making their frustrations known on Twitter, using the hashtag #eBayDown to connect with other users who are having problems logging into their accounts on September 3. While many fear that the site has been hacked, scheduled site maintenance may be the problem. Ironically, eBay is down on its 19th […]

10y ago

Here’s Why Social Networking Platforms Are Better Than Dedicated Online Selling Portals

Here’s Why Social Networking Platforms Are Better Than Dedicated Online Selling Portals

Social Networking platforms like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and others have certainly helped the world get closer. But these portals are now increasingly expanding their scope to allow users to actually sell their pre-owned products online, while saving a lot too. People are strongly urging others to just forget eBay, Gumtree, Amazon Marketplace, and other dedicated […]

10y ago

Will Technology Help Olive Garden Rise Again?

Will Technology Help Olive Garden Rise Again?

Olive Garden had finally decided to incorporate technology within its business to boost sales. Reported by the Inquisitr, the chain of Italian causal restaurants will slowly introduce online ordering as well as some nifty tech–assisted table–side ordering techniques. Olive Garden’s parent company Darden Restaurants had been searching for ways to uplift sagging business and one […]

10y ago

Amazon Expanding ‘AmazonFresh’ Online Grocery Business [Report]

Amazon Expanding ‘AmazonFresh’ Online Grocery Business [Report]

Amazon.com is reportedly planning to expand AmazonFresh beyond Seattle, the backyard of the company’s headquarters. The online grocery service makes home deliveries in Seattle area, a experiment that has lasted five years, but apparently it will launch in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the coming weeks according to unnamed sources. These are two areas […]

11y ago

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