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Tradeshift Debuts Ada, Its B2B Virtual Assistant

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B2B eCommerce platform Tradeshift has debuted Ada, an artificial intelligence solution to help businesses collaborate with each other. Currently, Tradeshift Ada integrates with Tradeshift Go, Tradeshift Buy, Business Analytics and externally to Slack,” explained Stalenhoef.

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2018 Recap: B2B Payments Innovation Welcomes Bank-FinTech Collabs — And Beyond

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Last June, the company announced a partnership with B2B eCommerce platform Handshake to further that initiative. Payments company Square took further inroads into the B2B space, particularly through its Square Capital solution, strengthening its position in corporate customers’ back offices.

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How J.Crew, H&M, Others Push Hard On Payments Innovation, Loyalty

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Originally, Target was offering a 5 percent discount on purchases through its REDcard program, along with shipping benefits on its eCommerce website. Sixty-two percent of businesses choose to innovate to meet demand to shop in stores. eCommerce retailer Amazon , for instance, has opened the Amazon 4-star Store in New York City.

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Amazon Business Lands In Italy And Spain

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Amazon Business launched in the U.K. last year, and with an entrance in Italy and Spain, it is now up and running in five European markets where it offers consumer-focused eCommerce. Amazon Business is “off to a fast start,” said Steve Frazier, global vice-president for Amazon Business in an interview with the Financial Times.

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Batteries Plus Bulbs: Powering The Digital Shift – Literally

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Chief Strategy Officer Jon Sica told PYMNTS that the company was completely up to speed with its eCommerce capabilities before the pandemic hit. Our strategy has always been to drive traffic to our stores so that our franchisees benefit directly from eCommerce. My favorite example is contactless curbside.

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ThreatMetrix CEO: LexisNexis/RELX Buy Means “1+1=4” In Fraud Battle

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information and analytics firm has agreed to buy digital identity company ThreatMetrix for $819 million. 29), ThreatMetrix will be folded into RELX’s Risk & Business Analytics operations, which does business under the LexisNexis Risk Solutions brand. Under the terms of the deal, announced Monday (Jan. ” .

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Mastercard Names Raj Seshadri President Of Data And Services

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Retail in recent years has become a very data-intensive industry. In his keynote address to the National Retail Federation (NRF) earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the industry as a whole throws off 40 terabytes of data an hour.

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