E-tail juggernaut Amazon.com (AMZN) received more website visits throughout the holiday season than the next four sites combined — eBay (EBAY) Wal-Mart (WMT), Target (TGT) and Macy’s (M), Cowen analyst John Blackledge wrote in a report about holiday e-commerce released Thursday. Mobile was the story in the holiday shopping season as mobile devices frequented cybershelves, driving the most traffic for retailers and e-tailers alike, according to
Twitter (TWTR) stock rose Wednesday on reports that the social media company has filed a patent for a drone that tweets and takes selfies. The move comes as other tech firms, including Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned Google, Amazon.com (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Wal-Mart (WMT), plan to use drones to make deliveries. Twitter was granted a patent earlier this month for a messaging-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, that takes
Wal-Mart (WMT) has entered the payments field, and that could disrupt PayPal (PYPL) ‘s plans to land the in-store payments business from leading retailers. Wal-Mart Pay adds checkout and payment capabilities to it’s mobile app, which accounts for more than 50% of the retail leader’s online sales. “The Wal-Mart app was built to make shopping faster and easier,” Neil Ashe, CEO of global e-commerce for Wal-Mart, said in the company’s press release