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Amazon is continuing to push tests of its cashierless checkout technology for bigger stores with larger spaces and experimenting with the technology in Seattle. The technology functions well in a... more

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It has recently been reported that a number of US technology heavyweights including Amazon and Apple have been hacked. According to Bloomberg, in 2015, Amazon.com began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies,... more

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Snapchat has announced it is testing a new way to search for products on Amazon.com through the Snapchat app’s camera, allowing users a mobile commerce experience by shopping directly using the... more

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Walmart like Amazon is moving itself further into traditional financial services provider territory, by expanding its money transfer operation to 200 countries Through the new money transfer operation, people will be able to deliver money from Walmart’s nearly 5,000 US stores to locations abroad within 10 minutes. As more consumers increasingly rely on Walmart and [...]

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Amazon is making a cross-border e-commerce transactions push for merchants on its website to sell goods into other countries, setting the stage for greater competition with rival marketplaces run by eBay and potentially Alibaba. More than a quarter of all revenue for sellers on Amazon globally was from cross-border e-commerce transactions in 2017, up more [...]

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