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Laam lands $5.5M to provide South Asian fashions to migrants around the world

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Demand for South Asian fashion is growing globally as more South Asians are migrating and settling in new markets, then buying ethnic wear for occasions like local festivals and weddings. However, not many online platforms today sell an extensive catalog of apparel and footwear from local South Indian sellers to global markets. Those that do […]

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Court orders Mullenweg and Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org

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A California district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction to WP Engine. The order asks WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and WordPress.com owner Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, a WordPress theme and plug-in repository site owned by Mullenweg. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin noted that WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, themes, plugins, and subdomains.

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E-commerce marketplace platform Mirakl acquires ad optimization startup Adspert

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French unicorn Mirakl is announcing its third acquisition in three years with the acquisition of Adspert, a German adtech startup focused on e-commerce advertising. Mirakl isn’t disclosing the terms of the acquisition, but the entire Adspert team of 30 employees will join Mirakl. As a reminder, Mirakl originally started as a software solution to add

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Myntra enters India’s quick-commerce race with 30-minute apparel delivery

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Apparel and accessories platform Myntra on Thursday launched “M-Now,” its quick-commerce offering that promises to deliver apparel and accessories within 30 minutes. Retailers in India are rushing to meet changing consumer behavior and expectations, particularly fast deliveries of groceries, beauty and lifestyle products within an hour. Myntra said M-Now will offer customers access to 10,000

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EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax

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The European Union is drowning under cheap packages coming from Asian online retailers, starting with ultra low-cost e-tailers AliExpress, Shein and Temu. The Financial Times has learned that the EU is considering a crackdown on such imported goods due to safety and counterfeiting concerns. The issue is there are currently no custom duties on goods

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Cyber Monday: $49.7B spent online globally, Cyber ‘Week’ totalled $314.9B

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The figures are now in for spend on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday — in the first, critical week of the holiday shopping season.  Overall, as many U.S. consumers returned to work after the long weekend, online shopping continued to power ahead spurred by big discounts

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Swiggy scales 10-minute food delivery to 400 cities in quick-commerce push

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Swiggy, a leading food delivery and quick-commerce app in India, said on Monday that it has expanded its 10-minute food delivery service, Bolt, to more than 400 cities and towns across the country. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which went public last month, said it has partnered with over 40,000 restaurants, including global chains KFC, McDonald’s, and

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