Amazon.com Inc. last week opened a showroom in Sanlitun Square, a popular shopping destination in Beijing, featuring imported goods from the e-retailer’s U.S. and U.K. e-commerce sites. The store looks …
The move comes as social media platforms are scrambling to squeeze more revenue out of their sprawling user base. Last year, both Instagram and Pinterest — a kind of digital …
The retailer has acquired PersonalizationMall.com (PMall.com), an online retailer of personalized products based in Burr Ridge, Ill., for approximately $190 million in cash, which reflects certain closing adjustments. Bed Bath …
McDonald’s Corp. will debut mobile ordering and table service in the U.S. next year as part of a plan to make its restaurants more technologically savvy, the company said Thursday. …
Alibaba will spend more than 2 billion yuan ($290 million) buying about a third of Sanjiang Shopping Club Co., picking up a slice of a regional Chinese discount supermarket chain …
Winning big new markets is by no means assured, and Amazon’s spending on its far-flung initiatives is immense, which already has created earnings disappointments. But Amazon’s growth record so far speaks …
Blockchain technology’s strength lies in its trustworthiness: the difficulty of reversing or changing what’s been recorded. The blockchain database can also hold much more data than what retailers get today, …
EBay also has added more functions to its home page, including the ability to move back into the browsing process more easily, and view deals and best-selling products on the …
UPS recently said it is expecting record deliveries during the holiday season, a blast of optimism that came as it also reported another strong revenue quarter. But for a year or more, …
The fashion retailer is installing photobooths taking digitally enhanced photos in its stores in Westfield London and Trinity shopping centre in Leeds. Created in partnership with creative agency Somewhat, the …
In an opinion piece for Forbes, Frank Lavin, CEO of Export Now, shares his thoughts on Alibaba’s mega shopping event taking place this Friday: 1. Singles’ Day is not just the largest e-commerce …