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Payments company Airwallex lands unicorn status
Payments fintech company Airwallex confirmed last week that it raised $100 million in series C funding led by DST Global, according to a company press...
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How to Generate Sales Leads with LinkedIn (Organic & Ad Strategies)
Want to get qualified leads flowing into your business around the clock?
Spoiler alert: you need to step up your LinkedIn game.
LinkedIn is the most...
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Like Me Not: The End of Likes
How do you know a post is on fire and well on its way to becoming viral. Simple, you take a glance at the...
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Amazon to invest $40M in new robotics hub
Amazon on Wednesday announced plans to invest $40 million in a new 350,000-square-foot robotics innovation hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, slated to open in 2021.The new facility,...
Report: Amazon is making its own version of AirPods for Alexa
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that Amazon is working on its own version of Apple’s popular AirPods wireless headphones. The company is looking for new...
Gartner: 5G will drive 100M people to shop in AR by next year
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The rollout of high-speed 5G mobile service is set to drive growth of augmented reality shopping to 100 million consumers by next year, researcher Gartner...
Can YouTube Shopping Emulate China’s Live Shopping?
Fashion site Glossy shares how YouTube is pushing forward with video shopping in the wake of Instagram reducing its shopping features and TikTok increasing theirs with a...
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A new era for Amazon as Jeff Bezos hands over CEO role
In an internal letter to Amazon.com employees yesterday, Jeff Bezos announced that he will be stepping down as chief executive of the company in the third...
What’s different about Levi’s
The brand has defined American denim since the 19th century by remaining a pioneer. Now Wall Street will have a say in its...
Alibaba in crosshairs of growing antitrust scrutiny in China
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s dominant position in the online retail and digital payments markets make it the most likely target of growing antitrust scrutiny...
Amazon’s marketplace business is growing once again
Third-party seller services and overall marketplace growth helped fuel Amazon’s third-quarter earnings.
This past quarter, Amazon’s online stores business grew 7% year-over-year to $57.2 billion....
Walmart launches voice-activated grocery shopping
Walmart has partnered with Google to allow customers to voice order groceries from their Google Assistant enabled devices including Google Home, iPhones and Android...
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Why Does Celebrity Advertising Work?
Actor/comedian Jim Gaffigan is starring in new commercials supporting Walmart’s Straight Talk Wireless family plans, actress Emma Roberts fronted Saks’ spring campaign, and hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg recently signed on...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation
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Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......
