Bond raises $15 million to bring last-mile deliveries and nano distribution centers to online retailers

Bond, a New York-based startup that offers ecommerce companies delivery and distribution center services, has raised $15 million in a round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, MizMaa Ventures, and TLV Partners. Founded in 2019, Bond has developed the technology and infrastructure to let direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands quickly deliver their products and more easily accept…

Ecommerce and online payment technologies market trends in 2020 (AMZN, BBY, W)

This is a preview of the Payments Ecosystem research report from Business Insider Intelligence.Purchase this report.Business Insider Intelligence offers even more consumer coverage with Payments & Commerce Pro. Subscribe today to receive industry-changing payments and commerce news and analysis to your inbox.E-commerce has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last several years, and…

Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

On the topic of ecommerce, one wonders to what extent this business model is applicable, and where is it likely to end? This is the prime question that goes through most online retailers, entrepreneurs today. It’s the extent of this phenomenon that has resulted in soaring businesses across the world. Some of the many ecommerce…

6 Essential Influencer-Marketing Truths Every E-Commerce Brand Should Know

More than a few companies have been burned by the wrong approach. Make sure yours isn’t one of them. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Image credit: supersizer | Getty Images January 24, 2020 5 min read Opinions…

Amazon Takes a Swipe at Paypal’s $4 Billion Acquisition

Days before Christmas, at the height of the last-minute holiday shopping rush, an ominous message appeared on Amazon.com. It warned shoppers who used a popular browser extension called Honey that the service, which promises to track prices and discount codes, was “a security risk.”“Honey tracks your private shopping behavior, collects data like your order history…

As retail robotics heats up, Berkshire Grey raises $263M

In recent years, the retail category has become one of the biggest and best-funded robotics categories — particularly when coupled with connected verticals like warehouse fulfillment and logistics. Berkshire Grey has flown mostly under the under the radar, but is kicking 2020 off with some pretty sizable funding news. The Massachusetts-based company just announced a…

In Paris, Ecommerce Warehouses Get a Chic Makeover

Paris is classy, so it calls the distribution centers “logistics hotels”—les hôtels logistiques.In France’s capital, as in other affluent cities around the globe, cheap or free “instant deliveries” from companies like Amazon, DPD, and Deliveroo have exploded in the last decade. French consumers make roughly 400 million internet purchases each year worth some $734 billion,…

Google acquires Pointy to help local retailers compete against Amazon

Google has acquired Dublin-based Pointy, which developed a solution to help traditional retailers compete with ecommerce giants like Amazon. The companies did not disclose the sale price, but the two had developed a growing relationship around ecommerce. “Over the past several years, we’ve developed a very close partnership with Google,” Pointy founders Mark Cummins and…

China Roundup: WeChat’s new focus on monetization

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. At the beginning of each year, a large crowd of developers, content creators and digitally-savvy business owners gather in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou…

How some founders are raising capital outside of the VC world

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, we’re exploring fundraising from outside the venture world. Founders looking to raise capital to power their growing companies have more options than ever. Traditional bank loans are an option, of course. As is venture…

Launch an Online Business in 2020 with These Web Courses

Learn how to build a site and optimize it for eCommerce. January 3, 2020 1 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. If…

You know what SEO stands for, now learn how it actually works

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. With more than 400 lessons included in this bundle, you’ll get in-depth training on Search Engine Optimization. Image: pixabay By StackCommerceMashable Shopping2019-12-21 10:00:00 UTC TL;DR: Learn how to show up better in search with The Pro Google SEO…

I Tried to Quit Amazon But Failed Miserably

When I found out the annual fee for Amazon Prime would increase from $99 to $119 last year, I started thinking about whether I could live without the service.The $20 increase I would face when my account auto-renewed wasn’t much in the grand scheme of things. But seeing that number nudge above $100 made me…

Airbnb is a platform not an estate agent, says Europe’s top court

Airbnb will be breathing a sigh of relief today: Europe’s top court has judged it to be an online platform, which merely connects people looking for short-term accommodation, rather than a full-blown estate agent. The ruling may make it harder for the “home sharing” platform to be forced to comply with local property regulations —…

Rise of M-Commerce: Mobile Ecommerce Shopping Stats & Trends in 2020

This is a preview of The Payments Ecosystem research report from Business Insider Intelligence.Purchase this report.Business Insider Intelligence offers even more consumer coverage with Payments & Commerce Pro. Subscribe today to receive industry-changing payments and commerce news and analysis to your inbox.E-commerce has been on the rise massively in recent years, but it may not…

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