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Trends
Amazon to open its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in 2020
Amazon is opening its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in the L.A. neighborhood of Woodland Hills, the retailer today confirmed.…
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Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales top $38 billion
After 24 hours of frenzied buying and selling, and weeks of aggressive advertising and promotions before it, the Alibaba Group…
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STARTUPS
OLX Group invests up to $400M in used car marketplace Frontier Car Group at $700M valuation
Frontier Car Group, the Berlin-based startup building used-car marketplaces targeting high-growth, emerging markets, has picked up another significant round of…
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Walgreens partners with FedEx to accept online returns, print labels
FedEx and Walgreens are partnering to make online returns more convenient, in a move that’s part of a growing trend…
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Amazon, Walmart confront India’s slowing economy as holiday season growth stalls
Even India’s biggest festive season, featuring blinding marketing blitzkrieg and heavy discounts from Amazon India and Walmart’s Flipkart, has failed…
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Zola, the $650M wedding portal, taps the travel market with an expansion into honeymoons
The wedding industry is estimated to be worth some $100 billion in the U.S. alone, and now one of the…
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Amazon makes it easier for smart home devices to alert customers to low supply levels
Alongside all the new Alexa-powered consumer devices Amazon introduced yesterday, the company also unveiled a new set of tools for…
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Kabbage founders drum up $11M for Drum, an SMB marketplace for sourcing salespeople, goods and services
It’s often said that smaller businesses get the short end of the stick when it comes to technology solutions: they…
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Finance
Walmart launches two new credit cards offering 5% back on digital purchases
Walmart is partnering with Capital One to launch a new credit card program, which rolls on September 24, and includes…
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