Tiger Global Management hedge fund led the funding round along with existing investors Coatue Management and Valiant Capital. As per a source familiar with the matter at hand, Grocery delivery startup Instacart has raised an extra $271 million in its latest funding round to $871 million with U.S. hedge fund Tiger Global Management leading the…
The move, is likely to significantly boost competition against Amazon’s competitors such as Walmart Inc and Target Corp. On Monday, in an effort to surge past the competition from rivals, including Walmart inc, Amazon.com stated it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for this holiday shopping season. Amazon’s U.S.-only promotion, effective from November…
Although the new innovation center does not aim to replace Walmart’s internal research lab, it nevertheless aims to be the test bed for emerging technologies which when mature will filter down the company’s other stores nationwide. Sam’s Club, a unit of Walmart Inc, stated it will open a new store and innovation center in Dallas,…
Although Intel has forecast higher revenues for its fourth quarter, it has conceded that in the long term trade tensions with China could act as headwinds. On the back of strong demands for Intel chips for personal computers and high margins from its data center business, Intel Corp announced its quarterly revenues which beat analysts’…
Amazon’s push into Latin America’s biggest economy is driven and bolstered by the listings of third party vendors on its local e-commerce marketplace. As per a Bloomberg report citing sources familiar with the matter at hand, Amazon.com Inc is working on a pilot logistics project in Brazil with CargoX, a Goldman Sachs-backed blockchain company for…
The increase in minimum wages will benefit around 350,000 employees in the U.S. On Tuesday, Amazon stated, starting from November 1, 2018, it will increase its minimum wages to $15 per hour for all of its seasonal, temporary, part time and full-time U.S. employees. The development comes in the wake of the “Fight for Fifteen”…
Deliveries by self-driving cars from the Fry’s store will cost $5.95 with no minimum order and will be available at addresses within the store’s zip code of 85257. On Thursday, U.S. supermarket operator Kroger Co stated it will begin testing driverless grocery deliveries from today and to do so it has partnered with tech firm…
Although the ruling should provide smartphone makers the ability to develop phones based on Amazon’s Fire OS, Google limits the adoption of such forks, as termed in the industry, through its licensing model. Essentially, the ruling is not likely to significantly change Google’s licensing model and the revenues derived from it. With the European Union’s…
The partnership will enable Wal-Mart to boost its online presence and tap into Microsoft’s repertoire of cloud services and advances in artificial intelligence technologies which could potentially enable it to provide customers at its brick and mortar stores cashier-less checkouts. On Tuesday, Walmart Inc, the world’s biggest brick-and-mortar retailer, disclosed it had entered into a…
Through this strategic move, Grab is expanding from its core ride-hailing services into other areas including electronic money transfers, loans, payment services and food delivery. Through GrabFresh, it now serves on-demand grocery deliveries. It is targetting revenues of $1 billion by the end of 2018. On Tuesday, in a strategic move that banks on its…
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