Once known as the “fast” and “cheap” option for online goods, it seems Amazon is now looking to add “couture” to the list of descriptors of the seemingly endless menu of products and services it offers. According to Bloomberg, Amazon has recently announced that it is...
As the week is coming to an end – and the payments and commerce circus is getting ready to roll up the tent for a few days – we have our last set of fun and fabulous factoid for Friday. This week we learned from...
Omnichannel isn’t only about helping merchants cross the digital/physical chasm, says Magento CEO Mark Lavelle. The need to integrate across all of the online and mobile channels that merchants and consumers touch is just as important and every bit as complex. Lavelle tells Karen Webster...
An Israeli startup is wiggling into the search engine game, but the company it’s most likely to compete with isn’t Google — it’s Amazon. VentureBeat reports that Twiggle, founded in 2013, announced yesterday (April 7) a $12.5 million Series A funding round led by South African...
Amazon is expanding its rush delivery service from an app to the Internet at large. Bloomberg reported on Friday (April 1) that the eCommerce giant plans to add its one- to two-hour delivery service, Prime Now — currently only available through a mobile application of the same...
Shopify is pressing hard on buy buttons. Re/code reports that the eCommerce platform is increasing the number of online sales channels on which its merchant customers — primarily small businesses — can sell their products. It’s a move particularly motivated by the rising popularity of shopping on...
Fresh off PYMNTS’ Innovation Project 2016 last week, MPD CEO Karen Webster and BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier reconnected for a discussion surrounding the release of BlueSnap’s latest platform enhancements, which specifically address 5 key elements of checkout abandonment for online and mobile merchants.
Alibaba has hit a new transaction milestone yet, at the same time, has come to terms with the challenges it faced during the end of 2015. At an event yesterday (March 21) at its headquarters in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba’s executives shared plans to focus on...
The minimum wage increase is set to affect many industries, and eCommerce is no exception — particularly in the realm of logistics. The Wall Street Journal shares that a new report from real estate brokerage firm CBRE estimates that, for a warehouse operation with 500 employees,...
