The on-demand economy is getting bigger every day with big players – like Amazon and Google – squaring off against startups trying to be the next Uber. DoorDash, an on-demand delivery service with 65 full time employees (and many, many more contractors who do the...
The European Union will spend a year studying why online shoppers in the 28-nation Euro zone don’t often buy products outside their own countries in what’s supposed to be a single digital market, the EU’s competition commissioner announced on Thursday (March 26). The inquiry, which...
Amazon is in “ongoing talks” to buy high-fashion online retailer Net-a-Porter for as much as $2.2 billion, Women’s Wear Daily reported on Thursday (March 26). The deal, if it goes through, would give Amazon a level of fashion respectability it has long coveted, if only...
Federal legislation to require reporting of a data breach within 30 days has passed its first milestone on the way to becoming law, but not everyone is happy with the details, The Hill reported on Thursday (March 26). The Data Security and Breach Notification Act...
Whatever U.S. retailers are doing to integrate mobile, online and in-store shopping…it’s not really working. Two research studies by Accenture on what the consulting company is calling “seamless retailing,” released yesterday (March 25), show a significant disparity between what consumers want (in terms of products and...
A retailers’ group formed to share cyberattack and threat information has launched a portal to speed up its ability to spread that information in the face of rapidly escalating attacks on payments and other retail data. The Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC) said on...
Barely a week after adding person-to-person payments to Facebook Messenger, Facebook said it is adding the ability for users to chat with businesses on the social network’s mobile app. The company announced the upcoming capability at its F8 developers’ conference on Wednesday (March 25) in...
Gone!, a six-month-old platform for selling used goods, has cut a deal with UPS that has let it expand nationally, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (March 24). The company originally launched in Austin and then expanded to San Francisco with an on-demand business model: Customers would...
German mobile-ordering and payment app Opentabs has added PayPal to its options for restaurant and bar payment, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. Customers who previously had to use a credit or debit card to pay with the app can now use PayPal at participating restaurants, including...
