As much fun as it is to ride a high-speed train across Europe, it’s just about that miserable to buy the tickets online. But Paris-based travel startup Capitaine Train is working to make the ticket purchase as smooth and quick as the train ride —...
Hong Kong-based startup PassKit has added another item to its mobile loyalty toolkit: a digital-wallet version of that old small-business loyalty standby, the stamp card. PassKit’s Loopy Loyalty stamp card system is clearly aimed at cafes, coffee shops and other small enterprises that can’t afford...
Alibaba has become the target of the latest political ad from the Alliance for Main Street Fairness — a spot previously held by Amazon. This 30-second radio and TV spot ad from the organization, which includes retailers like Best Buy, Target and JCPenney, claims that...
From Black Friday to Cyber Monday to Singles Day, to say that online shopping is booming around the globe would be a far, far understatement. US shoppers may have earned a notorious reputation across the globe with their holiday shopping, but experts are predicting that...
Retailers and consumers have wised up to each other’s habits: Offer more sales and consumer will shop more. But if stores offer longer sales, it also may spread out how, where and when consumers are spending their money. That may be the future of Cyber Monday...
As the struggling RadioShack chain is trying to restructure and survive, the last thing it needs is a public battle with its lenders. And yet, the last thing one needs is sometimes exactly what happens—and such is the plight of RadioShack. “The standoff marks the...
After a disappointing Black Friday, retailers saw E-Commerce sales jump 15.6 percent on Monday (Dec. 1), aka Cyber Monday, compared with the same day last year. That stat comes from Channel Advisor, which tracked transaction data for more than 2,700 retailers selling online between midnight...
Competing in the e-Commerce space can be tough enough for big retailers, leaving it that much tougher for the small, local stores to get their voices heard and products seen online. High costs of technology investments and lack of employees have left many small businesses...
Amazon’s overseas expansion into Europe has already hit a snag. Amazon’s emergence into the market was putting pressure on Europe’s postal firms, but now it’s been announced that the e-Commerce giant is dropping same-day delivery in the U.K. Cyber Monday is what has been cited...
