According to reports emerging late last week, over 11,000 new chatbots have hit the beach on Facebook’s Messenger, with 23,000 developers waiting in the wings after having signed up for the platform’s bot engine. “We’re looking forward to building a future of amazing Messenger experiences...
Consumers are increasingly willing to do their food shopping online. That is the takeaway from a new Harris Poll that indicates about a third of American consumers have ordered something to eat off the web in recent memory. If consumers who never buy anything online...
UPS is making it easier for consumers to pick up their packages on their own time with the expansion of its Access Point smart locker package pick-up program. Access Point is rolling out to 300 new locations in five states —Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and...
In one of the more surprising pieces of news taking the cycle home before the Fourth of July weekend, Apple is in talks to buy Jay-Z’s musician-centric streaming service Tidal. Those strong ties to big names in music – Kanye, Beyonce and Madonna have all...
The best description of Handy is as a house cleaning service, insofar as cleaning is by far its most popular features. But Handy is, ironically enough, not quite correctly summed up so handily since its vision is a bit broader. In short, Handy is a...
Walmart is upping the stakes in its war for retail dominance with reigning eCommerce champion Amazon by expanding the rage of their free two-day shipping. Going forward, Walmart will allow any U.S. customer with a $49 per year members ship to access its free two-day...
Times continue to be tough over at Birchbox, the online makeup peddler, which has just fired an additional 30 staff members. The cuts come at a particularly unfortunate time, as a few weeks ago Katia Beauchamp was touting plans for the firm that she was...
Today (June 29), MasterCard announced the integration of its Simplify Commerce solution with Microsoft Dynamics AX, their cloud-based ERP solution, in order to bring secure online payments to 13 markets around the globe. As a result of this collaboration, Simplify Commerce, MasterCard’s cloud-based payments platform, will give Microsoft...
It’s becoming increasingly common for analysts to release less-than-encouraging reports on this or that brand’s online sales potential. So much so that these doom-and-gloom reports can be used to wallpaper the average retail executive’s office. However, when Goldman Sachs decides to give a retailer’s eCommerce...
