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Back to news homeAmazon to close 68 physical retail locations, including Amazon Books and 4-star stores
Amazon’s physical retail business is suffering a major blow as the company today confirmed to Reuters it will close 68 brick-and-mortar retail stores across the U.S. and U.K. This includes […]
Walmart launches AI-powered virtual clothing try-on technology for online shoppers
Last May, Walmart announced its acquisition of the virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit, which leveraged a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other AI technologies to […]
Future Retail, Amazon’s estranged partner in India, scales down operations
Future Retail, India’s second largest retail chain, is scaling down its operations to reduce losses, it said, the latest casualty in its years-long battle with estranged partner Amazon. The firm, […]
NayaPay secures $13 million, largest seed funding in South Asia for its messaging and payment app
Pakistan-based fintech platform, NayaPay, has raised $13 million in a seed round to rollout its multi-service messaging and payment app, and to build payment acceptance and financial management tools for […]
Inclusive live commerce: Engaging live agents to move beyond captioning
Dragorad Knezi Contributor Dragorad Knezi is the CEO and co-founder of eyezon, an on-demand human-centric social shopping platform. The inclusive shopping market may just be the largest untapped opportunity in […]
Alloy Automation raises $20M to scale its e-commerce automation tech
Alloy Automation, a Y Combinator graduate focused on connecting different e-commerce tools, announced this morning that it has closed a $20 million Series A led by a16z. The startup characterized […]
MarketForce raises $40 million Series A, introduces BNPL merchant stock financing
MarketForce, the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. MarketForce, which […]
Korean internet giant Naver backs e-commerce aggregator New Vessel in seed roundÂ
According to eMarketer, Japan and Korea’s e-commerce markets were estimated at $144 billion and $121 billion, respectively, in 2021. Despite the large e-commerce market size, both countries have fewer e-commerce aggregators […]
Papier inks $50M Series C to as it runs to lead the online stationary market
Papier, a startup leveraging technology to bring very non-tech products into the world, has raised some funding to continue expanding its business on the heels of strong demand for its […]