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Walmart Launches eBook Service To Take On Amazon

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Walmart announced Wednesday (August 22) the launch of its new eBook service dubbed Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo, which provides customers with access to an all-new digital catalog of books in the stores and online. In a blog post , Mario Pacini, general manager of entertainment at Walmart eCommerce U.S.,

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Walmart Opens eCommerce Store With Rakuten In Japan

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“We are very excited to be working with Walmart to bring a diverse product lineup of American brands at affordable prices to Rakuten Ichiba users in Japan,” Shunsuke Yazawa, executive officer and vice president of the marketplace business at Rakuten, said in the press release.

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Payments 2016: The Year Of Online And In-Store Convergence Via Mobile

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PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of Online And In-Store Convergence Via Mobile. Download the eBook. UberEATS is growing in popularity.

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How The Pandemic Accelerated The Shift To Digital Commerce

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In a 2019 PYMNTS eBook much like this, we made predictions for eCommerce in 2020 and the next decade. For many, this meant expanding new channels of eCommerce, such as buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), delivery offerings, mobile order-ahead and more. Rejecting the Status Quo: Cumbersome Manual Reviews and Customer Insults.

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Online Banking Without Third-Party Cookies

Since the inception of cookies in 1994, advertisers and brands have come to depend on them as a tool to help websites remember users. Consumers have tolerated them as a necessary cost of doing business online, even as they’ve grown to loathe them.

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Payments 2016: The Year Of The ‘Ecosystem,’ Redefined

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PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Download the eBook. Innovative POS companies like Poynt and Clover are reinventing the most painful point of the shopping experience: the checkout process.

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India’s Festive Season Starts Strong For Flipkart, Amazon

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million USD) in 36 hours for the premium smartphone brands category. Flipkart’s ultimate goal is to lure 200 million online consumers with streaming movies, shows and entertainment in direct competition with rival Amazon, and it plans to offer the app in other languages, including Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Bengal. billion rupees ($7.07

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