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7-Eleven Malaysia buys into ride-hailing service
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7-Eleven Malaysia Holding has acquired a 46.45-per-cent equity stake in local delivery firm Myinteractivelab for US$1.8 million.
Topics: undertaking, 7eleven, ridehailing, services, buys, msb, sems, program, dego, malaysia, stake, subscription, sem, ride, service. -
Afterpay buys European rival Pagantis
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Afterpay has announced plans to buy Pagantis, its European rival. The Australian company is set to pay 50 million euros for the buy-now-pay-later company. The acquisition is part of Afterpay’s global expansion plans. Afterpay shouldn’t be confused with the eponymous company that once was founded in the Netherlands, but now… Continue reading
Topics: pay, set, rival, european, pagantis, buys, afterpay, spain, million, markets, company, popular. -
Alibaba buys Ele.me for US$9.5 billion
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Alibaba has bought the Chinese food delivery business Ele.me for US$9.5 billion.
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Alibaba buys Rocket Internet’s Daraz to expand its e-commerce empire into South Asia
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Alibaba has expanded its e-commerce empire into South Asia after the Chinese internet giant acquired Daraz in an undisclosed deal. Daraz was founded in 2012 by Rocket Internet and today it operates in Pakistan as well as Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Rocket said in a statement that Alibaba has acquired the entire Daraz business. […]
Topics: internets, internet, ecommerce, million, rocket, expand, south, daraz, asia, second, alibaba, buys, southeast, pakistan, empire, deal. -
Alibaba buys into furniture chain Macalline
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Alibaba has invested US$640 million in Red Star Macalline Group, the largest furniture retail chain in China.
Topics: furniture, business, investment, transaction, taking, taken, buys, alibaba, macallines, us640, cent, macalline, stores, chain. -
Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
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A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon today announced an acquisition that underscores how it also hopes to have a more direct — and more commercial — role in the world of healthcare in the coming years. The company has purchased PillPack, an online pharmacy […]
Topics: company, amazon, ceo, market, pillpack, 1b, pharmacy, consumer, acquisition, deal, buys, online, healthcare. -
Asos buys Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands
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Online fashion retailer Asos has required Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT, all brands from Arcadia, a retail group that fell into administration at the end of last year. Asos will take over the brands as well as the stock, but it won’t take on the physical stores. At the… Continue reading
Topics: topman, topshop, brands, arcadia, retailer, asos, retail, selfridge, miss, buys, online. -
Delivery Hero buys South Korean rival Woowa
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Berlin-headquartered online food delivery operator Delivery Hero has acquired Seoul-based rival Woowa for US$4 billion.
Topics: rival, korea, million, hero, services, buys, cent, woowa, delivery, korean, south, baedal, vietnam. -
Fave buys startups CutQ and FoodTime
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Southeast Asian mobile payment and reward platform Fave has acquired CutQ and FoodTime, two startups specialising in F&B table ordering and takeaway pre-ordering.
Topics: fb, startups, takeaway, table, merchants, technology, ordering, buys, fave, foodtime, solutions, cutq. -
Flipkart buys Walmart’s India wholesale business to reach mom and pop stores
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Flipkart said on Thursday it is launching a wholesale marketplace to serve small and medium-sized businesses and neighborhood stores in India, entering an increasingly crowded space that has attracted several players, including India’s largest physical retail chain (Reliance Retail), Lightspeed-backed Udaan, Amazon and Facebook in recent years. To launch the wholesale marketplace, called Flipkart Wholesale, […]
Topics: pop, walmarts, flipkart, walmart, retail, mom, businesses, small, buys, business, stores, reach, india, techcrunch, wholesale, country. -
GS Retail buys into US-based Thrive Market
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South Korean retailer GS Retail has paid US$29 million for a stake in US online retailer Thrive Market.
Topics: thrive, gs, million, market, buys, usbased, organic, billion, retail, products, sales, growth. -
Google buys US$550 million stake in JD
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In a strategic move, Google buys into JD to boost its Asian influence.
Topics: million, china, google, partnership, products, buys, stake, investment, including, us550, operations, jd, mainland, googles. -
Ikea buys AI innovator Geomagical Labs
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International furniture and homewares retailer Ikea’s investment arm Ingka has bought US-based AI innovator Geomagical Labs, known for its hi-tech solutions that inspire consumers shopping for furnishings.
Topics: design, ikea, work, furnishing, innovator, purchase, geomagical, solutions, buys, technology, labs, digital, ai. -
India’s Quikr buys Zefo marketplace
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Indian online classifieds site Quikr has bought refurbished goods marketplace Zefo, headquartered in Bangalore.
Topics: zefo, zefos, products, transaction, buys, indias, including, strong, quikr, ceo, marketplace, strategy, strengthen. -
Lightspeed buys Ecwid for $500M; NuOrder for $425M in ongoing e-commerce consolidation play
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Lightspeed has picked up two more companies in what is shaping up to be an acquisition spree for the Canadian point-of-sale software provider. The company today announced that it would acquire e-commerce platform Ecwid for $500 million, and NuOrder, a B2B ordering platform servicing wholesales, brands and retailers, for $425 million. Together, the two deals underscore […]
Topics: ecommerce, million, nuorder, play, consolidation, platform, techcrunch, commerce, retail, 500m, ongoing, lightspeed, retailers, merchants, ecwid, buys, company. -
LiveRecover Founder Sells Company, Buys OrderBump
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Dennis Hegstad co-founded LiveRecover, an SMS app, in 2018. He sold the company in 2021. "I became bored," he said. So he purchased OrderBump, a Shopify app for product upsells.
Topics: buys, plus, customer, founder, upsell, liverecover, youre, company, upsells, shopify, app, sells, know, orderbump. -
Luxasia buys Australasian business Pacific SMM
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Beauty and luxury lifestyle brand distributor Luxasia has launched in Australia and New Zealand through acquisition.
Topics: luxasia, zealand, smms, markets, smm, brand, pacific, team, oceania, buys, australasian, australia, business, beauty. -
Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates
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Patreon is forming a patronage empire. Today it acquired white-labeled subscription membership platform Memberful, which lets creators sell exclusive access to content through their own site instead of a centralized platform like Patreon. Rather than being folded into a Patreon feature, Memberful will run as an independent brand, maintaining its tiered pricing structure, though new […]
Topics: facebook, memberful, million, membership, patronage, buys, consolidates, creators, youtube, indie, patrons, keeps, paying, patreon. -
Reliance Retail buys Urban Ladder for $24.4 million
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Reliance Retail has acquired a majority stake in furniture and decor platform Urban Ladder, making a broader push into e-commerce as the largest retail chain in India gears up to fight Amazon and Flipkart. In a filing to the local stock exchange, Reliance Retail said it had acquired a 96% stake in Urban Ladder for […]
Topics: techcrunch, billion, reliance, ladder, retail, cities, indian, urban, startup, million, stake, buys. -
Shopify Buys Logistics Company Deliverr
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Shopify's acquisition of fulfillment company Deliverr will help it compete with Amazon and will otherwise jumpstart stalled growth.
Topics: shopify, company, logistics, amazon, fulfillment, buys, inventory, billion, acquisition, service, shopifys, deliverr, merchants. -
Shopify buys warehouse automation tech developer 6 River Systems for $450 million
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Shopify, the shopping technology developer that’s quickly becoming the anti-Amazon, has taken another step up the sales supply chain with its $450 million acquisition of the warehouse automation and management technology developer, 6 River Systems. The acquisition will serve to boost efficiencies among Shopify’s Fulfillment Network service, which launched in June. The acquisition gives Shopify […]
Topics: robotics, shopify, systems, developer, technology, million, including, automation, acquisition, partners, buys, techcrunch, warehouse, tech, river, statement. -
Surprise, no one buys things via Alexa
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Some numbers published in a report from The Information reveal that very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping. Of about 50 million Alexa users, only about 100,000 reportedly bought something via voice interface more than once. It's not exactly surprising, but it may still harm the narrative of of conversational commerce that Amazon and others are trying to advance.
Topics: users, shop, using, echo, devices, alexa, things, voice, buys, numbers, surprise, theres. -
To automate bigger stores than Amazon, Standard Cognition buys Explorer.ai
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Standard Cognition helps retail stores stand up to Jeff Bezos’ juggernaut. The $50 million-funded autonomous checkout startup is racing to equip bigger shops with scanless payment technology that lets customers walk out the door without ever stopping at a cashier. While Amazon Go opens its own 2,000 square foot boutiques, Standard Cognition is working on […]
Topics: buys, bigger, startup, stores, standard, checkout, automate, amazon, team, explorerai, retail, autonomous, maps, cognition. -
To beat Amazon Go, Standard Cognition buys cashierless DeepMagic
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Valued at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has emerged as a soon-to-be tech giant and the best hope for merchants to compete with Amazon Go. Cashierless checkout is poised to transform brick-and-mortar commerce, and shop owners fear having to battle Amazon’s technology alone or partner with it, exposing data it could use against […]
Topics: deepmagic, standard, space, beat, technology, cognition, techcrunch, market, startup, think, buys, amazon, retail, cashierless, fisher. -
VIPshop buys Chinese outlet malls
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Discount e-commerce platform Vipshop has acquired a chain of Chinese outlet malls.
Topics: chinese, buys, shan, offline, outlets, business, discount, outlet, malls, retail, online, million, vipshop.