Well, another Amazon Prime Day and another $4 billion-plus in global revenue. That pretty much sums up the results and they must be doing the happy dance at Amazon headquarters in Seattle. According to Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, sales were up 33% over last year’s ...
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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
We’ve got the latest global retail benchmarks research from Vend with valuable industry metrics. Buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) sales are up and we look at what to do about the growth in fraud as well. Finally, we have our weekly global payments news roundup to help you ...
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Here’s a roundup of the global payments news we’re reading this week. It includes a look at what Amazon is up to in the payments and financial services business and a preview of Amazon Prime Day. Also included is a look at the struggle of ...
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Why buy online, pickup in-store (BOPIS) fraud is up 250% and how to prevent it. ...
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A new survey by point-of-sale expert Vend identifies key benchmarks and provides valuable business metrics for the retail industry. ...
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What you do when you want to pay anonymously for services like discreet dating sites, VPN, email, and other online services or you want to protect your identity? Whatever you think of Ashley Madison, the dating site for married people, you’ve got to admit ...
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A new global survey of 5,000 consumers by Capgemini shows that conversational commerce is finding its voice with online shoppers. The research highlights the opportunities ahead for retailers who provide voice shopping as a way to engage in a growing new e-commerce channel with consumers. ...
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Here are the payments industry news stories we’re reading this week along with the payments trends and innovations we’re watching from around the world. PayPal and Temasek invest $125m in India’s Pine Labs PayPal’s shopping spree continues as the US behemoth makes its third investment ...
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With more than 50 million Amazon Echo smart speakers sold, the voice shopping use case is rapidly expanding. Is there an impact on sales by Echo owners? A new research report from InfoScout and Alpine.AI, shows consumers increased the frequency of their consumer package goods ...
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Our Friday global payments news roundup includes a useful collection of strategic payments news you can use about iZettle, PayPal, Barclaycard, ACI Worldwide/Ovum, Amazon, Square, Walmart, FNB, Apple Pay and Nuggets. Retailers risk frustrating online shoppers with out-of-date payment technology More than 72% of retailers ...
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