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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....
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Study: 93% of companies with a personalization strategy boost revenue
Ninety-three percent of businesses with advanced personalization strategies increased their revenue last year, according to a new study from personalization software company Monetate and WBR Research.The...
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Amazon tests video ads in its shopping app, Bloomberg reports
Amazon is testing video ads in the Apple iOS version of its shopping app, with plans to expand to Google's Android mobile operating system...
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The Xbox has been transformed into a highly designed object
The last quarter of 2020 saw the global launch of two major next gen products, Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, together...
Online commerce helped boost digital ad platforms like Meta and Google
Major tech companies reported an increase in ad revenue at their most recent quarterly reports, driven by e-commerce advertisers that continued to spend on...
H&M integrates virtual assistant, live chat with Google services
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In partnership with Nuance Communications, H&M is making its virtual assistant and live chat agents available via Google services like Google Maps and...
Investing In Route Planning Software Enhances Efficiency For Transportation Industry
A large European FMCG firm implemented LogiNext Mile’s delivery management software in early 2020. By the end of the year, they managed to get 43% more...
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Under Armour faces investigation into accounting practices
Under Armour is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department over its accounting practices, particularly around whether the retailer...
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...
GameStop lost $673M last year
GameStop on Tuesday reported that in its fourth quarter, which had one less selling week than the year-ago quarter, total global sales fell 7.6%...
Caleres to close 133 Naturalizer stores in shift to digital
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Shoe seller Caleres plans to close 133 stores under its Naturalizer women's footwear brand by the end of fiscal 2020 and pivot to a digital...
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...
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10 Crucial SEO Trends in 2021: Stay Ahead of Competition
Will SEO still be relevant in 2021? Of course, SEO will still be relevant in 2021, because why wouldn’t it? It’s the present and...
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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 ......
