Sephora Joins the Beauty Subscription Box Arena
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Devalued Yuan Set to Take Bite Out of Apple, Give Boost to Chinese...
Weakened currency means reduced China revenue when converted to dollars, while local firms will e...
Retail Therapy : 25 Startups Building Their Own Fashion Brands
Funding to startup fashion brands has gone from under $25M in 2010 to over $235M in 2015 year-to-...
(Video) Touchjet WAVE - Turn Any TV Into a Giant Touchscreen
The Touchjet Wave uses infrared technology to recognize finger taps and gestures.Compact and port...
Electronic gift card startup CashStar raises $15M
CashStar, the company behind the Starbucks, Best Buy, and Aeropostale’s electronic payment and g...
Target Launches Beacon Test In 50 Stores, Will Expand Nationwide La...
Target, the second largest general merchandise retailer in the U.S., announced this morning that...
(PDF) Mckinsey - A Mobile Future in Private Banking
The second wave of the digital revolution has arrived in banking. Following the introduction of I...
(PDF) BCG - How Retailers Can Improve Promotion Effectiveness
A Four-Part Approach to Generating GrowthBrick-and-mortar retailers—including supermarkets, disc...
Here's Why Ikea is Buying Entire Forests
Ikea is buying up forests to keep tighter control over the wood it uses to produce its iconic, ea...
Amazon is Now Bigger than Walmart
The retail king has lost its crown. Amazon.com’s market value whizzed past that of Walmart in af...
(Video) Sulfite-Filtering Üllo Aims to Make Wine-Drinking Less Whi...
The Üllo is claimed to filter most of the sulfite content from wine.Do you get itchy, cramped-up...
Paypal Overtakes eBay's Marketplace Sales for the First Time
Flush with cash and primed for growth, PayPal today split off from eBay to become an independent...
(Video) UNDO Laces Offset the Carbon Footprint of Shoes with Style
For every pair of shoes that is manufactured, 30 pounds of CO2 is released into the atmosphere. C...
Hundreds of Bank of America branches are Disappearing
Bank of America's workforce and branch network has declined by double-digit percentages over the...
Amazon - From Source to Mighty Flow
IN THE summer of 1994 Jeff Bezos quit his job on Wall Street, and made for Seattle. With his wife...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Winning in Africa’s Consumer Market
For consumer-goods companies, Africa holds much promise—but also many pitfalls. To succeed on th...
Online Retailers are Getting Shoppers to Pay Up-front Fees in Excha...
Amazon Prime is the most widely known and used online membership program. And it's been so succes...
Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone
Swiss postal service says tests will run until the end of July although the widespread use of dro...
(PDF) BCG - Global Asset Management 2015 : Sparking Growth with Go-...
In 2014, the global value of professionally managed assets grew to $74 trillion—the third consec...
Family, Food and Culture are Asian-Americans Staples
Asian-American consumers have strong cultural ties and family connections, and both are reflected...
New, Simple ‘Buy’ Buttons Aim to Entice Mobile Shoppers
Denise Chapman, a director at a San Diego advertising agency, is afraid to count how many hours o...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Why Emerging-Market Companies Acquire Abroad
Long focused on deals to acquire technology, brands, or know-how, more emerging-market companies...
This New Gadget Will Revolutionise Productivity on Your Laptop
Having multiple displays improves productivity tremendously (as well as your gaming capabilities)...
(PDF) BCG - Pricing Across Borders : How Smart Manufacturers Maximi...
It’s a fundamental axiom that prices vary. The differences reflect the economics of the manufact...
Gap’s Fashion-Backward Moment
The contrast summed up the state of American retailing. One by one, iconic brands like Gap, J. Cr...
The 10 Most Profitable Industries of Tomorrow
Direct-to-consumer businesses and traveler accommodation services are among the 10 industries gro...
It’s Not Hard to See Why Big Banks are Going Crazy over New Techno...
By making things like payments, lending, and deposits significantly cheaper and easier, technolog...
Airing for Sleep Apnea Reaches Crowdfunding Goal in 2 Hours
Airing, the Burlington-based maker of a tiny device that aims to help sleep apnea patients, on Mo...
China's Stock Market is Now Worth Over $10 Trillion
$10 trillion! That's how much money China's stock market is worth right now.As of the end of May,...
(Video) Holus : The Interactive Tabletop Holographic Display
Holus provides a blend between the digital and real world by converting any 2D digital content in...
Businesses Are Going Mobile — But How ?
Companies more likely to have a mobile website than an appThe US population is spending increasin...
FRANKEN-STEINS : Beer and Alcohol Bottles Go High-Tech
Brewing and distilling may be ancient arts, but even old dogs can learn new tricks. Such is provi...
