Retailers say they lose out to Amazon for many reasons. One of them is their inability to enable last minute gifting. Loop Commerce CEO Roy Erez tells Karen Webster how innovations in gifting, now, can help retailers gain at least 30 days of sales they...
The launch of the Unity Buy SDK from Shopify will make it easier for developers to build a store with real items right inside a game. According to TechCrunch, players can then buy T-shirts, mugs, toys and more emblazoned with a user’s logo and characters. Apple...
Denver, Colo.–based startup Baker Technologies has built an eCommerce platform that the company is touting as “Shopify for cannabis.” According to Fast Company, the three-year-old marijuana-marketing startup created the platform — Shop — to allow pot-selling establishments to set up online storefronts, list what they...
While many brick-and-mortar stores have been battling it out within the eCommerce arena over the past few years, it looks like one of the largest retailers may also be falling into the crosshairs. This week, Walmart announced it’s giving the axe to more U.S. corporate...
Amazon-backed independent digital money transfer startup Remitly recently told Reuters that it had launched its remittance services for users seeking to transfer money from the U.K. With the addition of Massachusetts earlier this year, Remitly serves users across all 50 U.S. states, in Canada and now...
German beauty products maker Coty denied that its distribution policies indicate an overall ban on online sales during a landmark case in Europe that could determine whether luxury goods companies can stop retailers from selling their products through online marketplaces. According to Reuters, U.S.-based Coty...
Vantiv, a leading provider of payment processing services and technology for merchants and financial institutions, announced it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration of the company’s eCommerce services with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2. According to a press release, to achieve Oracle Validated Integration, partners — like...
To enable the European SME market, U.K.-based payment service and gateway provider Creditcall and FinTech-company-turned-pan-European-acquirer Credorax have partnered to launch an integrated omnichannel payment platform — an end-to-end service that enables online, mobile, in-store and unattended payments acceptance. In recent years, the European SME community...
Hyperwallet, a global payouts provider to the digital marketplaces, announced Wednesday (March 22) it has hired a Sydney-based managing director to target eCommerce and gig economy businesses in the Asia-Pacific region. In a press release, Hyperwallet said Simon Banks, who previously headed PayPal’s Australian Merchant...
