Twitter’s e-commerce initiatives now include livestream shopping and Walmart will be the first retailer to test the new platform. Over the past year, Walmart has invested in live shopping by hosting events across social platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and soon it will debut Twitter’s first-ever shoppable livestream. On November 28, Walmart will kick off […]
Slope takes in first capital with visions of being ‘Stripe for global B2B payments’
The company is growing at an incredible pace — 15 times in gross merchandise volume in just the last 30 days.
India police charge Amazon executives in marijuana smuggling case
Police in Madhya Pradesh, a central state in India, have registered a case against executive directors of Amazon India in connection with alleged use of the e-commerce marketplace for smuggling of marijuana in the South Asian market, they said Saturday evening. The police didn’t disclose how many senior executives they had charged, but said it […]
In Amazon scuffle, Visa’s loss could be Affirm’s gain
Let’s look at why BNPL is becoming a more attractive payment option for big e-commerce companies like Amazon and Walmart, as well as merchant marketplaces like Square and Shopify.
TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration
This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck.
4 strategies for setting marketplace take rates
One of the most important things founders should remember is that maximizing the take rate of the platform is not the goal.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth budgets, hiring tips, zero-party data Twitter Space
Are you curious about marketing with zero-party data? Join a Twitter Space with with Ben Parr, president and co-founder of Octane AI, tomorrow at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST.
3 ways fintech companies can help retailers launch financial services
As retailers expand banking opportunities, they will need help positioning their products, keeping them safe and selling to end users. Now is your chance to make connections in that world.
Brazilian social commerce marketplace Facily quietly raises $366M in less than a year, now valued at $850M
Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace, has quietly raised over $366 million in funding across four different rounds over the last year. Most recently, Facily closed on a $250 million Series D that was led by DX Ventures and Berlin-based Delivery Hero, with Citius as co-anchor investor. That investment values the startup at $850 […]
Casper’s return to private life isn’t a canary for DTC companies going public
Why do we care about one public company’s planned exit from the public markets? Because Casper’s demise as an independent, growth-oriented DTC company details what can go wrong for such firms.