Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has quietly started rolling out its own payments app, dubbed Super.money, as it broadens its fintech ambitions more than a year and half after separating from PhonePe. The Walmart-owned firm’s new app, now live in beta on Play Store, allows users to make mobile payments via UPI, an interoperable network that […]
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Amazon said on Tuesday that its annual Prime Day sales event will be held on July 16 and 17. The sales will kick off at 12.01 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on 16 July for U.S. citizens, and will feature exclusive and invite-only deals for Prime members. Apart from the U.S., Amazon is holding Prime Day
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Consumer technology is hard, but few people have mastered it as well as Matt Rogers, co-founder of Nest and now Mill, his new startup that promises to turn your table scraps into planet-saving treasure. Mill burst out of the gate last year after spending some time in stealth refining its waste bin, an easy to
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Shopify merchants can now sell their items to Target’s millions of shoppers, thanks to a new partnership. The companies announced on Monday that sellers on the commerce platform can apply to join Target Plus, the retail giant’s third-party marketplace where merchants can sell and manage orders. Target is the first major retailer to collaborate with
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Zepto has more than doubled its valuation to $3.6 billion from $1.4 billion in less than a year in a new funding round of $665 million as the Mumbai-based startup intensifies the quick commerce competition in the world’s second largest internet market. Zepto sells and delivers everything from grocery items to electronic gadgets within 10
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LTK (formerly LiketoKnow.it and RewardStyle), the influencer shopping app with 40 million monthly users, announced on Thursday the launch of a free direct message tool for creators to instantly share pre-set responses with followers. The new tool, called LTK DM, is integrated into the posts section of the LTK app. When a creator shares an
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Amazon is bringing its generative AI listing smarts to more sellers, revealing today that those in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. can now access tools designed to improve product listings by generating product descriptions, titles, and associated details. Additionally, sellers can also “enrich” existing product listings by automatically adding missing information. The announcement
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Even as quick commerce startups are retreating, consolidating or shutting down in many parts of the world, the model is showing encouraging signs in India. Consumers in urban cities are embracing the convenience of having groceries delivered to their doorstep in just 10 minutes. The companies making those deliveries — Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy’s Instamart
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Two years after it was announced at WWDC, Apple’s U.S.-only Pay Later feature is no more. TechCrunch has confirmed the news, which was first noted by 9 to 5 Mac. Here’s the full statement offered to TechCrunch. Starting later this year, users across the globe will be able to access installment loans offered through credit
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For consumers, one of the big pluses of e-commerce is the convenience: You can shop anytime, from anywhere, and these days pay with a simple tap of your finger (and pay pretty much any way you want). Underneath that, however, is a mass of fragmentation and complexity, and it’s usually the retailers who take it
