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AUGUST 21, 2020

The companies are testing the service in four California and Oklahoma markets, with an eye toward a national launch in 2021. The first big move was the introduction this month of an online marketplace to enhance the popular Kroger Ship service and widely expand the digital assortment of private-label products that Kroger has on offer.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

As one estimate put it, “in 2018, the global eSports market was valued at nearly $865 million, (and the) global eSports market revenue will reach $1.79 The realm of eSports is not the only place in the greater online world where taxes are a new and sometimes confusing issue in 2020. billion in 2022.”. State Pressure.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. At issue is the eCommerce retailer’s parallel responsibility to third-party merchants as an online shopping ecosystem and to itself as a competitor on the platform with rival products. Maryland legislators ratified the tax earlier in 2020, but Gov.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Many consumers enjoy shopping in department stores, others enjoy making purchases directly via eCommerce — and then there are those who fall somewhere in-between, and Nordstrom is aiming to capture that market with an expansion of its latest innovation. The company is also hoping to further expand the program, Chain Store Age reported.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission announced that a planned workshop in Washington, D.C. aimed at examining consumer protection issues related to the online event ticket marketplace has been rescheduled for June 11, 2019 due to the government shutdown. (The The workshop’s original date was March 27.).

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Officials from as many as seven states — Texas included — will be at an afternoon meeting in Washington, D.C., As PYMNTS reported last week , this meeting in Washington, D.C. states, Washington, D.C. Department of Justice (DOJ) will meet with state attorneys general representatives to review collective investigations of Google.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. social media users are “very confident” that those platforms would protect users’ data, according to Pew — with 64 percent calling for more regulation of online advertisers.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

One of the two officials slated to present the proposed new rules, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, told the Welt am Sonntag weekly that the time has come to give regulators the power to do more than publicly criticize internet giants, per Reuters. “For from Democratic lawmakers who will have new power in Washington, D.C.,

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MARCH 2, 2020

A reorientation that could prove to be a bit of a challenge, since the COVID-19 outbreak that is spreading around the world seems to have infected the stock market, sending shares crashing through the ground as Wall Street put in its worst performance since the dawn of the Great Recession. Let’s dive in…. Walmart’s Many Resets .

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JUNE 23, 2016

Adore Me , the online lingerie retailer that sells monthly subscriptions to bra and panty sets, recently announced that it will be selling its products in five Nordstrom stores in California, Colorado, New Jersey and Washington state. It’s not a shift in strategy, our DNA remains online,” Klapka said.

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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Five Supreme Court justices may have settled one of the longstanding issues of online retail, but that does not mean everything has suddenly cleared up. That’s not to say that some consumers might be put off by the looming expansion of sales taxes to more online purchases and shift dollars to brick-and-mortar retail. Big Ticket Blues?

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Fixed income markets have continued to change dramatically since 2002, becoming more global while an increasing percentage of trades are made on or by electronic trading platforms. After announcing the proposed change, FINRA adjusted the online version of the rulebook to expire on May 14, 2023. Background. Opportunity to Comment.

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MAY 3, 2017

Morty, reported TechCrunch, is launching with 10 lenders in 10 markets in the U.S. The platform is licensed in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C. In the future, Morty plans to add more markets. Morty is a free platform for borrowers.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Specifically, the rollout will embrace 10 additional stores across Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina and Washington State. The eCommerce giant said that with the expansion, the program will reach roughly half of Whole Foods Market locations by this week.

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JUNE 21, 2018

States can collect sales taxes from online retailers thanks to a U.S. North Dakota , argued that it was “obsolete in an era of eCommerce,” according to a Washington Post report. Quill creates rather than resolves market distortions,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority decision. “In retail sales.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

News of Amazon ‘s acquisition of online pharmacy startup PillPack have had analysts assuming the eCommerce conglomerate is ready to introduce an online pharmacy to its suite of services. However, new reports from CNBC on Wednesday (Nov. 21) said Amazon may first be gearing up to introduce the service to its own employees.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Supreme Court to announce a bipartisan investigation into whether the company has abused its position in the online advertising market. It controls one-third of the world’s online ad spending, but 90 percent of the market for some ad tech tools. Each state has launched separate probes. “I

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

The mattress market in the United States has become a shocking competitive place. representing about 40 percent of the mattress market. Purple put up $190 million in net revenue last year — a strong showing for a firm that first crept onto the market less than three years ago.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

This week showed investor interest in B2B FinTech companies in international markets, as a trade finance platform in India and a human resources (HR)/payroll cloud software firm in the U.K. Online invoicing discounting company M1xchange has notched $4.5 landed funding rounds. The company has disbursed more than $36.5

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A rise in alternative lending and FinTech service providers has driven the digitization of both traditional and alternative financial services, leading some banks to invest in their online platforms and cut costs by shutting down physical branch locations. However, other financial institutions are hitting back against the consolidation wave.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

There is also the surprising reality that goods that less affluent consumers favor also tend to stay in the market longer with fewer changes over time, meaning their prices more or less trend up with inflation. Said simply, premium goods favored by wealthier shoppers go on sale more often than staple goods bought by more down-market shoppers.

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MARCH 31, 2020

legislators in several states are either drafting, voting on or have passed requirements to tackle online data’s and transactions’ importance, but these laws often do not integrate well with those passed in neighboring states. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a jump in online payments versus those made in stores, for example.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The focus of the probe will be on whether the company has abused its position in the online advertising market. “I He said 50 state attorneys general are involved in the investigation — across 48 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. Absent from the roster is Alabama and California.

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MAY 3, 2018

Its mission, which just won the official admiration of Visa , is to move small businesses away from checks and paper receipts by migrating invoice management online. Hermyz took the grand prize and the $10,000 that came with it at last weekend’s Small Business Hackathon, an inaugural event that took place in Washington, D.C.,

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

20, in a move that surprised maybe no one, the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit in Washington, D.C. against Google, joined by 11 states attorneys general, alleging the tech giant has used its dominant position in the online search market unfairly against competitors. Tuesday, Oct.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government, was murdered in October 2018. Among Amazon’s other work in the Middle East is Payfort , which it owns and which will work on boosting revenues and online traffic for small businesses.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Twelve years after the housing and mortgage markets’ collapse threw the United States into financial distress not seen since the Great Depression, market watchers are again on the lookout for a possible new banking crisis spawned by upheaval in the U.S. commercial real estate sector.

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MAY 29, 2017

Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., It’s time-consuming and difficult to navigate, with many businesses not even having a presence online.”. and Chicago.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

That’s what led him to Goodworld, an online platform that removes the friction from digital donations, making them possible (and secure) by using hashtags. The firm doesn’t do direct marketing for charities, but instead serves as a “bridge between the nonprofit sector and donors.”. online shoppers leave behind $1.79

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In September, 50 attorneys general announced that they were launching an investigation into whether Google has abused its position in the online advertising market. The probe is being led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and involves 48 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

New rules would require online lending companies like Ant to provide 30 percent of funding for loans, and firms would be banned from operating outside provincial bases without approval from a watchdog, Bloomberg said. The report said Alibaba has used such practices, among other companies.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In September, 50 attorneys general announced that they were launching an investigation into whether Google has abused its position in the online advertising market. The probe is being led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and involves 48 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

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JUNE 24, 2016

But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. Online to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely. Online lending . A pretty clear-cut sizzle. Tech is back.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In one case, real estate investment trust (REIT) Macerich is bringing a concept called BrandBox to its Tysons Corner Center mall in a Washington, D.C. Naadam , a luxury ready-to-wear cashmere brand, lived online during the first years and it is one of the brands joining Macerich’s Tysons Corner location.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The news follows Instacart’s agreement earlier this month to add the 7-Eleven convenience store chain to its online ordering platform, with plans to initially start making deliveries from 750 stores across the country in a first phase covering Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Florida and Texas.

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JULY 23, 2018

The president’s animus against both the online retailer, its CEO Jeff Bezos and the newspaper he owns ( The Washington Post ) is longstanding, dating back to the 2016 campaign when Trump first floated the possibility that Amazon should be examined in the context of antitrust regulations. Supreme Court.”

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