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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It plans to use this new funding to expands its general team, as well as the management team. Founded in May of 2016, San Francisco-based Darkstore offers a platform that enables on-demand, same-day and 2-day delivery options for eCommerce sites. This latest round brings Darkstore’s total raise to more than $30 million.

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MARCH 19, 2019

million Class A shares, its investment could initially be worth $1.16 As for Lyft’s other strategic investors, the company’s IPO paperwork explained that Japanese eCommerce company Rakuten owns 12.2 As for Lyft’s other strategic investors, the company’s IPO paperwork explained that Japanese eCommerce company Rakuten owns 12.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Yann Ranchere , partner at Anthemis Venture Investing Group, joined Karen Webster for the latest episode of This Week In Payments to talk about all of the latest developments. Finding that connection point is tough, so Credit Sesame’s plan of embedding its new Sesame Cash tool into a banking application makes sense.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

Japanese eCommerce and payments platform hey announced a Series E investment led by Bain Capital , a press release says. The company plans to use the money to accelerate its growth amid Japan’s thriving business environment, including numerous customers who want to use contactless, digital means of payment.

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MARCH 21, 2016

Indian payments startup Paytm has hired Alibaba’s head of wholesale business to steer its growth and build a stronger collaboration with the Chinese eCommerce giant. Paytm is in a similar space to Alibaba, so I can leverage my China experience.”. “The fuel for growth is similar.”. “The fuel for growth is similar.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

With $68 million in combined venture capital funding, this week’s B2B FinTech investments are certainly not the highest they’ve been, but considering the current market, the latest rounds remain impressive nonetheless. Wise didn’t reveal exactly what it plans to do with the funding. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

The year 2020 meant big changes for retailers that had primarily defined themselves by physical interaction as brick-and-mortar merchants were forced to adapt to an eCommerce-focused world as their best option for holding on to their now homebound customer base. The Classics Still Count .

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This appears to be driving an uptake in subscription plans for daily goods. The September Subscription Commerce Tracker ®: eCommerce Goods And Direct-To-Consumer Edition examines the rise of D2C consumer goods subscriptions and the factors that keep subscribers loyal. Around The Consumer Goods And D2C Subscription Landscape.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) selling has taken wing with the ascendance of eCommerce to retail’s throne. The current shift’s durability will depend on brands’ abilities to deliver product availability, offer seamless eCommerce experiences and leverage digital tools to forge long-term personalized relationships with customers.”.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

The above report that surveyed consumers from seven countries also noted that there was a 12 percent jump in promotion fraud within the eCommerce industry between March 11 and April 28. Offering discounts and personalized promotions can help them stand out from the crowd, especially as eCommerce spend in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced plans on Feb. Fidelity Investments’ parent company, FMR LLC, is launching an independent personal data startup called Akoya to serve as a bridge between financial institutions and data recipients. Also, Samsung production in Vietnam could stall due to the coronavirus.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

The same can probably not be said for Kroger ’s plans to go live this fall with an eCommerce marketplace of third-party sellers through a partnership with Mirakl, which specializes in B2C and B2B eMarketplaces. The Instacart partnership will definitely get some attention in Seattle. Was Prime Day India Really a Test Case?

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

At a time when the pandemic has seen a massive shift toward digital commerce, the Mexican arm of Walmart – the world’s largest retailer – is looking to leverage the river of remittances that its customers receive from the United States, and to keep more of that cash in-store. Noting that eCommerce only accounts for 3.8

eCommerce 69

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The cross-border investment and asset management firm China Everbright Limited is leading a $283 million Series C1 funding round for Terminus Technologies, Deal Street Asia reported on Tuesday (Aug. By way of example, eCommerce giants Tencent and Alibaba targeted traditional banking services with their WeChat Pay and Alipay services.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

Startups helping other businesses to manage their financing proved popular with investors, but it was a Vietnamese B2B eCommerce startup that took home the largest round. PYMNTS breaks down the latest VC investments below. With the fresh funding, Portify plans to expand credit-building and personal loan solutions within its offering.

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JUNE 13, 2019

. “Bringing together talent from Jet and Walmart into joint teams has created more opportunity for our business and our people,” said Marc Lore, co-founder of Jet.com who now serves as president and CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S., A Walmart spokesman told CNBC that there are no layoffs planned. in a blog post.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In an environment which remains uncertain, we will continue to deliver exceptional product, localize plans and shift resources, while leveraging the strength of our digital platform to inspire customers.”. The investment was matched by Alibaba, which is an endorsement of luxury spending in China.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Traditional eCommerce and brick-and-mortar merchants aren’t the only organizations that market luxury goods like handbags. ShopGoodwill.com , an eCommerce auction platform that was created by Goodwill of Orange County and is still operated by the organization, offers the same kinds of items on its site.

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MAY 5, 2020

For a business built on a nomadic and innovative business model, the two-year-old firm has reacted quickly and expertly to an unforeseen crisis by pushing into eCommerce. Plans to open in Austin were postponed; Schildt found herself without a clear plan, and her brands found themselves without a lifeline to their newfound audiences.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Findings that 39 percent of firms have dropped manual B2B processes for digital options since the pandemic’s onset — and that 26 percent plan to in the near term — reveal the sea change that’s occurred in back-office processes and how to better manage them. Non-Optimized No Longer An Option. Enterprises have been onto this for a while. “One

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Wall Street appears to be loving Walmart’s new strategy to slow down its store openings and place an emphasis on its eCommerce business. While Walmart CEO Doug McMillon told analysts at the company’s annual investor meeting last week that Walmart was even more bullish on eCommerce and a digital transformation than most realized.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s when you get the sustainable proposition,” said Gibu Thomas , Pepsi’s head of eCommerce. We'll continue to invest in it and will continue to iterate and pivot until we find the propositions that consumers find delightful and sticky.”. And Abhishek Ahluwalia , global eCommerce growth platforms leader for Mondel?z

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MARCH 9, 2017

Alibaba also reported a boost to its top line thanks in large part to investments in cloud-based initiatives. I am more interested in partnerships,” Ma said at a news conference on Alibaba’s $800 million Olympic sponsorship deal when asked about his company’s plans for the year. “We the eCommerce arm of the Indian payment company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And Coinbase has announced the creation of the USDC Bootstrap Fund, which will support developers building DeFi protocols by investing USDC directly in the protocol. “In With the Bootstrap Fund, we aim to make it easier for developers to launch their protocol and help them to create healthy, liquid marketplaces by leveraging USDC.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The eCommerce giant had in excess of $863 million in outstanding small business loans at the end of 2019. Loans were primarily issued to SMB merchants that sell on the site, and bank partnerships were leveraged in some foreign markets. Recent consumer undertakings were lower than 3 percent of 2019 revenue.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Yelo also plans to expand its team and invest in product development and sales, reports said. Yet another India B2B FinTech landed on the board this week with its $5 million Series A investment, reports in Business Standard said. France’s Upflow announced a $2.7 Aspire Financial Technologies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Long before anyone had ever heard of the coronavirus or social distancing, eCommerce was slowly and steadily making progress and eating into the physical retail share of the shopping landscape. The coronavirus pandemic, for all its horrors, is going to be an opportunity for eCommerce merchants large and small. Building A New Balance.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

with patients through real-time video and will leverage Truepill’s infrastructure and distribution to fulfill and deliver medications. Truepill will continue to invest in its portfolio of consumer health brands, including Ahead, a startup specializing in adult ADHD treatment, and Eve, a U.K.-based based women’s health company.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Providing Careem platform users with Visa credentials creates new access to use eCommerce platforms and more fully participate in digital commerce as COVID-19 recedes, also leveraging Visa’s considerable know-your-customer (KYC) protections to bear for users of the Careem platform.

Marketing 96

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Price Chopper’s Omnicommerce Investment. Price Chopper Supermarkets will leverage the company's integrated SaaS suite, including Customer Data Platform, Advanced Customer Analytics and Omnichannel Lifecycle Marketing, to achieve insights-driven personalization, the release noted. The goal in Asia, as in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CarMax’s business model is rooted in the physical dealership model as the company has increasingly leveraged its online channels. The second point: The omnichannel experience at CarMax has received major investments and will continue to be pushed to consumers in 2021. “We By the numbers the company’s net earnings were up 35.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

Areas where the company showed strength and invested the most energy to change offer clue as to how U.S. Even eCommerce giant Amazon had to switch its priority to shipping essential household and medical items amid delivery delays. Net income totaled $3.99 billion, up 3.9 percent from $3.84 billion a year earlier. Safety First .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ahold Delhaize logged a strong Q3 performance, largely due to investments in digitizing its business. Our results reflected our ability to leverage our leading local digital and omnichannel platform, which generated nearly 115 percent net consumer online sales growth in the U.S. No matter how one voted in this week’s U.S.

Leverage 57

Leverage Sales Finance eCommerce 57

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As shaving products company Harry’s plans to announce its $112 million in new financing, the company is looking to grow its brand beyond men’s grooming. We’ve built a lot of infrastructure at Harry’s that we think we can leverage into new categories,” Jeff Raider, one of Harry’s founders, told the Times.

Marketing 43

Marketing Advertising eCommerce Leverage 43

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

After much speculation – and a fair amount of “will they, won’t they” – it looks like the deal is done: Walmart will be the majority owner of Indian eCommerce up-and-comer Flipkart, with a 77 percent stake. All it will cost them is a cool $16 billion. What the Deal Will Mean. is known for. “As

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JULY 20, 2018

million with B2B startups this past week, and while investment targets were diverse (including B2B eCommerce and small business lending), the bulk of the funding landed at companies focused on enhancing businesses’ ability to assess their performance. The company did not say how it plans to use the funding. OfBusiness.

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