Wal-Mart also acquired a 51% stake in Yihaodian, a China e-commerce retailer, to improve its online sales in the region.
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Two things give reason to hope: The leadership of e-commerce retailer Hiroshi Mikitani in the administration's reform councils and Mr. Abe's commitment to bring Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations.
Just this week alone, three venture-backed Chinese tech startups I wrote about in my book Silicon Dragon e-commerce retailer Dangdang, video sharing site Tudou and an energy savings producer LatticePower are marking major milestones.
But there are two reasons to hope: The leadership of e-commerce retailer Hiroshi Mikitani in the administration's reform councils and Mr. Abe's commitment to bring Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations.
Mark Reese, chief e-commerce officer at Toysmart.com, an online toy retailer in Waltham, Mass.
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Naturally, the largest online retailer, Amazon, received the best e-commerce effectiveness score of 2.1.
Staples, the world's largest office products company and second largest e-commerce company, today became the first major U.S. retailer to announce the availability of 3Dprinters.
Teen apparel retailer Aeropostale is looking to revamp its m-commerce (e-commerce through mobile) channel to strengthen its direct-to-consumer business.
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It is the latest US e-commerce success to eye the lucrative European market, following on the successful launch of online retailer Amazon.
The biggest retailer in the world said on Feb. 19 that it was expanding its e-commerce investments in China and further north there is talk of the company wanting to get back into Russia after leaving Moscow in 2010.
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As a part of this initiative, the retailer recently installed free Wi-Fi in its stores to allow access to its e-commerce.
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It is not uncommon for a retailer to have a set of systems for retail point-of-sale, another for e-commerce and yet another for the call center, with information entered and stored differently and in different formats in each case.
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