Customer-tracking vendor Nomi Technologies failed to give in-store customers an adequate chance to opt out of being tracked through their smartphones, according to a settlement announced on Thursday (April 23) with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The FTC charged that Nomi’s privacy policy said it...
Jet.com, the second eCommerce brainchild from Diapers.com founder Marc Lore, goes into the market valued at $600 million – and that is before the company has sold a single item, according to The Wall Street Journal. However, CEO Lore has a long history of winning at...
As heavy as the head that wears the crown can be, on the upside, at least you get a crown. Being the No. 2 guy to the guy that wears the crown is not so much heavy as it is a headache – particularly if the...
It’s like Black Friday, but in spring. (And it’s online, and it lasts for a week.) But the gist of Home Depot’s new “Cyber Week” event is that the home improvement retailer aims to duplicate some of the success from chockablock wintertime holiday shopping days — the...
Wedding guests plan to spend 13 percent more to see their friends and family say “I do” in 2015, according to a newly released American Express Spending & Saving Tracker survey. Based on the survey of nearly 1,900 U.S. adults, about 79 million Americans are...
Twitter’s Buy button is finally beginning to find its most natural use: Selling live-event tickets on short notice. On Monday morning (April 20), the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks tweeted that the team would sell a limited number of tickets to Wednesday’s game straight from Twitter, Re/code...
Omnichannel activewear retailer Outdoor Voices has brought in $1.1 million in a bid to expand so it can challenge Lululemon and other activewear brands, according to TechCrunch. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Red Sea Ventures, Collaborative Fund, SWTLF Ventures and...
These days one can almost feel bad for the people who work hard to bring you television commercials each night. It is reportedly intensive, expensive, highly creative and very demanding work – which must make the ever declining number of eyeballs those commercials attract extremely...
Alibaba will be selling and offering financing for General Motors cars through its eCommerce sites, and using its data-crunching capabilities to target Chinese buyers for GM, Reuters reported on Friday (April 17). Chevrolet, Buick and Cadillac automobiles are already sold on Alibaba’s Tmall online marketplace,...
