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MAY 6, 2019

With 130 million monthly active users tapping Instagram’s product tags on shopping posts, it’s no wonder that Instagram wants to be your mall. The uptick, according to the report’s authors, is a direct result of Instagram’s explosion as a commerce channel in its own right over the last 24 months. Outside the U.S., In April, the U.S.

eCommerce 49

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Ford, for one, recently partnered with Alibaba on a concept to sell the car company’s vehicles in massive vending machines. But customers wanted that license plate or tag immediately, so they came into the office. That takes up space and time, so we wanted to use a kiosk as a way to save [both].”.

Transportation 43

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APRIL 26, 2018

Instead of relying purely on cameras and sensors to determine what users place in their shopping carts and then auto-charging them through their Amazon payments account when they walk out the door, BingoBox’s items come embedded with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag.

Retail 41

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MARCH 29, 2017

Ant Financial, carved out from Alibaba, is on the cusp of a bidding war, even as executives from that company have said that they remain confident that their initial $880 million deal to buy MoneyGram, which was announced in January, will go through. What’s in it for Euronet? The same scale across the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It’s as simple as adding a “sponsored content” tag on a blog post, an adequately transparent product plug by a YouTube celebrity or even a rapid-fire reading of the fine print — anything that informs the audience that what they’re consuming isn’t completely impartial. Keying customers into sponsored content isn’t a bad thing.

Advertising 40

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Research from Fung Global Retail & Technology shows that smaller players are likely to vie for a piece of the pie that is 90 percent dominated by Alibaba and Tencent-backed firms. The recommerce market, which is focused on returned and (gently) used items, has been big business, where in China those sales are worth $60 billion.

Sales 46

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

China’s Alibaba ranked second, capturing 13.6 The big standout is, as always, the big TVs with the much smaller than normal price tags — though Walmart is apparently taking a go-deep-or-don’t-bother approach this year with big sales on laptops, kitchen appliances, smartphones and tablets, home products and toys, and among other things.

eCommerce 46

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Given his long history of rather exuberant public appearances, it seems fair to assume that most days are pretty good days to be Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma. Despite fears of a coming hiccup in Chinese consumer spending, Alibaba saw some unexpected pick-up in its fiscal third-quarter results. billon U.S. dollars [USD]).

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JULY 12, 2017

Alibaba Holding affiliate Ant Financial has resubmitted its bid to buy U.S. billion price tag. money transfer company MoneyGram to U.S. authorities for review. Reuters , quoting unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said the $1.2-billion firms are acquired, and where there may (or may not) be national security risks.

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