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Magento Hops On One-Click Checkout Bandwagon
December 15, 2017

Magento Commerce, the cloud digital commerce company, announced Thursday (Dec. 14) the availability of Instant Purchase, which it said makes it the first commerce platform to deliver the functionality since the Amazon 1-Click patent expired in September of this year. In a press release, the...

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Mall Operator Predicts Online Shopping Ceiling Of 20 Percent Of Retail Sales
December 15, 2017

Unibail-Rodamco CEO Christophe Cuvillier said on Thursday (Dec. 14) that he believes brick-and-mortar retail will never go away and that eCommerce has its limitations. On a conference call covered by Reuters, the CEO of a company — that is spending $16 billion to buy Westfield to create...

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GM Brings eCommerce Marketplace To The Car Dashboard
December 05, 2017

Coming soon, General Motors will be building their car dashboards a bit differently — with eCommerce capability built right into the dashboard. GM is betting that given a choice, drivers would rather find fuel, buy food or reserve lodging with a dashboard tap — as...

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Walmart Gaining Strength In Price War With Amazon
November 27, 2017

According to news reports from Reuters and data from pricing experts, retail consultants, vendors and company sources, Walmart may soon be able to match Amazon’s online pricing as the shrinking gap between the two sites is becoming increasingly apparent. As of now, Walmart.com is only 0.3 percent...

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Online Grocery To Spike 50 Percent During Holidays
November 24, 2017

Many Americans do the bulk of their holiday shopping online — including groceries. In fact, one research company believes online grocery retail will see a 50 percent increase this season. While the consumer trend of eGrocery is much less developed in the U.S. than in European...

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Swiss Consortium Adopts Single Digital Identity For Online Purchases
November 22, 2017

A consortium of nine large companies — including UBS, Credit Suisse, Swisscom, Swiss Post, SIX, Raiffeisen, Swiss Railways, Zuercher Kantonalbank and Mobiliar — will enable Swiss consumers to use a single digital identity when making eCommerce purchases. According to a report in Reuters, the idea behind the...

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eBay Pushes AI Curation For The Holiday
November 21, 2017

eBay is giving its marketplace shoppers the gift of artificial intelligence (AI) this holiday season in the hopes of better connecting consumers to the things they really want. “If we know you like superheroes, there’s a world of things on eBay you don’t even realize...

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PayPal Livens Up P2P with eCards
November 21, 2017

This season, PayPal customers can think beyond the typical gift card: The company is co-creating six limited edition holiday digital greeting cards for PayPal’s person-to-person (P2P) gifting experience with PayPal Local Selects host Leandra Medine of “Man Repeller.” Medine will be bringing her fearless style...

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EA, Star Wars And The Force (Of Payments) That Wasn’t With Them
November 18, 2017

If EA Games — the third- or fourth-largest video game company in the world — had set out to write a step-by-step guide on how not to release a new high-profile gaming product to the world, they probably could not have succeeded any better than they did (by...