1+ week, 4+ day ago   (260+ words) Amazon announced Wednesday (Sept. 2) that it is giving consumers a new way to fight back against one of scammers’ most effective weapons, impersonation. The company is adding a feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether an email, text,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (632+ words) Amazon.com Inc. was sued by the Federal Trade Commission and 22 U.S. states over allegations that the online retailer secretly increased the prices advertisers paid to promote products on its platform, opening another regulatory front for one of the world’s largest…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (596+ words) B2B software is moving from modeled ROI to observed ROI. Transaction-rich platforms can increasingly show what their products did to costs, cash flow, working capital and revenue — turning the product itself into a continuously updating business case. Transaction data is becoming…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (585+ words) Best Buy is reaching customers in new ways, both in stores and online, executives said Thursday (Aug. 27) during the specialty consumer electronics retailer’s quarterly earnings call. Best Buy has begun rolling out a new conversational artificial intelligence assistant called Ask…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (836+ words) Amazon’s estimated clothing sales reached 2.8 times Walmart’s in 2025, up from 1.15 times in 2019. The Amazon-Walmart clothing revenue gap widened to $19.7 billion in Q2 2026 from $15.3 billion a year earlier. Walmart’s latest earnings show strong growth in selected fashion brands even as its overall…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (470+ words) Off-price retailer Ross Stores saw “robust” sales growth in the quarter ended Aug. 1 as both existing customers and new ones sought prices lower than those of mainstream retailers, CEO Jim Conroy said during a Thursday (Aug. 20) earnings call. “We really…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (379+ words) Amazon hopes to offer drone deliveries in nearly 500 U.S. communities by year-end. That will mark a sixfold increase for Amazon’s Prime Air service, the company announced Wednesday (Aug. 19), as it targets metro areas such as Chicago, Cleveland and Atlanta. “Customers already…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (427+ words) Walmart’s investors are counting on the company’s ad business to drive profits as same-store sales growth has cooled and the company’s stock has fallen on a cautious annual outlook, Reuters reported Tuesday (Aug. 18). Walmart Connect has helped Walmart maintain margins…...