March 01, 2019
Ex-GM EVP Finds A New Home At Amazon
Amazon has hired General Motors‘ (GMs’) executive vice president of global manufacturing. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that Alicia Boler Davis has joined the eCommerce...
March 01, 2019
Apple Adds Delivery, Flight Siri Shortcuts
Apple has launched five new Siri Shortcuts that are now available. The Siri Shortcuts feature was introduced last fall as part of iOS 12. According to USA Today, the tech...
March 01, 2019
Western Union CEO: Speedpay Sale Speeds Way To X-Border Payments...
The year 2019 is already shaping up as a big year for deal-making in financial services and payments. Western Union, of course, just sold Speedpay, its U.S. bill payments unit,...
March 01, 2019
Why Retailers Are Crowdsourcing Delivery
Imagine getting paid to go home. (Really, take a moment and do so. Feels nice, right?) Now, imagine not only getting paid to go home, but doing so in a...
March 01, 2019
How Cannabis Merchants Seek To Clear the Online Sales Haze
One-click ordering in the Amazon age has made consumers impatient for their products. When it comes to subscribing for new services, that behavior hasn’t changed. Customers want to input their...
February 28, 2019
US: FTC Penalty on fake reviews created
One cannot have the good without the bad, and that holds especially true, it seems, with online product reviews — a vital, useful part of eCommerce that is reviled by...
February 28, 2019
US: New antitrust task force goes after Big Tech
The Federal Trade Commission announcement comes amid increasing concerns in the US and elsewhere about dominant tech platforms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. The FTC declined to name any...
February 28, 2019
Amazon India Rival Reliance Can’t Share Consumer Data
The chairman of Reliance Industries has run into a hitch in his quest to take on Amazon in India and become the biggest eCommerce company in the country, according to...
February 28, 2019
Amazon Lets Brands Remove Fakes From eCommerce Platform
Amazon is adopting a new approach to fighting counterfeits on its platform, announcing on Thursday (Feb. 28) the launch of Project Zero. The new program, which the eCommerce giant laid...
