December 05, 2014
Amazon’s Latest Shot Across The Retailer’s Bow – Branded Products
Amazon has released its own line of two particular products that may have some of its sellers crying foul: diapers and baby wipes. As a recode.net article points out, anti-Amazoners...
December 05, 2014
Former Apple CEO Says Apple Pay Will Define The Game
Former Apple CEO and author of “Moonshot!”, John Sculley believes Apple’s running with a momentum that won’t stop anytime soon. While second acts are hard to do, Apple “certainly reinvented...
December 04, 2014
MasterCard Launches New Innovation Lab In East Africa
Across East Africa, millions are trapped in a cash economy, lacking financial services to help them fight risk, invest in their future and ultimately build better lives. There is an...
December 03, 2014
Fixing Global Payments’ $26 Trillion Problem
The global payments environment is increasingly crowded, even noisy. Next to Apple Pay, it’s a topic of conversation that’s all over the payments industry for obvious reasons – where there’s...
December 03, 2014
Will Alibaba Help or Hurt U.S. Retailers?
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...
December 03, 2014
Cyber Monday Recap: Winners and Otherwise
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...
December 03, 2014
Amazon Prepares CEO Succession
Amazon has selected a replacement for CEO Jeff Bezos, Bezos told an audience Tuesday (Dec. 2), but the identity is confidential. Recode, however, published its list of most likely candidates...
December 02, 2014
Cyber Monday Sales Jump Almost 16 Percent
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...
December 02, 2014
Amazon’s Tricky Overseas Expansion
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...
