PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

That’s because China eCommerce giant Alibaba apparently has removed any products related to the Houston Rockets from its search results. Tencent has been the digital media partner of the NBA in China since 2009. These moves come amid a push by China to encourage more cross-border commerce and retail. China’s Commerce Push.

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Retail Houston Online Leadership 116

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

From 2009 through 2018, tech-sector job growth in New York City has grown almost four times as quickly as the city’s overall private job growth, according to Parrott’s analysis. Over the summer, the retail giant partnered with autonomous vehicle startup Gatik AI to pilot grocery delivery from Walmart’s main warehouse in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

In 2009, Uber’s innovation was to match up black car drivers with downtime and consumers fed up with the uncertainty of not being able to reliably get a ride when they needed one. UBER: THE ROAD FROM RIDESHARING TO CONTEXTUAL COMMERCE 2.0. started life as an option inside of the Uber app. As I said in January , Contextual Commerce 2.0

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. They’ve also got six foundry labs located around the world: Atlanta, Houston, Palo Alto, Plano, and Israel. ” Their experts have partnered with about 500 startups a year since opening the first foundry in 2011; their newest facility opened in Houston in 2016. Retail/Consumer Goods.

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