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eBay Seeks Buyer For Korean Division

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Online marketplace and auction site eBay is looking to unload its South Korean unit, according to a report by Reuters. The unit includes one of the biggest online marketplaces in the country, called Gmarket. eBay used to also own brands like PayPal and StubHub, but sold them when their directives differed from its own.

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Visa Partners With Go-Jek On Payments In Southeast Asia

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We both want to make everyday life more convenient, whether it’s how people move around town in Southeast Asia’s fast-growing urban areas, or making it easier for people to pay and be paid all over the world,” said Visa Regional President Asia Pacific Chris Clark. The company first expanded into Vietnam, then Thailand.

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Digitally-Native Retailers Are Turning To Brick-And-Mortar Stores

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For thredUP’s brick-and-mortar stores, the inventory is designed to match regional tastes and, when shoppers visit fitting rooms, they can turn to an iPad for recommendations. And it doesn’t think that retailers have to commit to only selling online or only selling through brick-and-mortar stores. Pop-Up Shops.

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OrderGroove Funds Frictionless Commerce With $20M Series C

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Looking at the geographic concentration of activity, the US was the most active region, with 47 percent of activity, followed by China at 41 percent. Consumers no longer want to just be transacted with—consumers want to be in relationships with the retailers and brands that know them well.”. They’re now circling your brand.

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Why A Former Walmart Exec Jumped In With Drizly

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There’s little doubt that the [spirits] industry will feel the impact of the largest online retailer expanding into grocery,” Coors wrote in a blog post following the news announcement of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger. operations from 2010 to 2014, joined Drizly’s board of directors earlier this week. Or an anything.

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Deep Dive: How Payment Card Networks Win Merchants Over

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They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. Online sellers could instead rely on 3D Secure 2.0 Online sellers could instead rely on 3D Secure 2.0

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This Weekend’s $25B Shopping Event

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When Singles Day launched nearly a decade ago, the then-fledgling eCommerce brand Alibaba didn’t really think they were changing the face of commerce in its nation. By even their own accounts , their aims were much more modest – they were just looking for some kind of marketing event to draw attention to its new online marketplace, Tmall.

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