E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- May 15, 2019

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Walmart Enters High-Stakes Next-Day Delivery Game
Flexa Launches Crypto-Based Payment App
Technology Is Filling a Need in Philanthropy
Online Shopping Gets Real: The Rise of Interactive Product Visualization
What Happens to Sprint if T-Mobile Merger Fails?

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Today's Story Highlights

Walmart Enters High-Stakes Next-Day Delivery Game
Walmart has announced free one-day delivery for 220,000 of its most-
frequently purchased items. The service will be available first in
Phoenix and Las Vegas, because "these locations are major metro markets
served by our fulfillment center in Southern California ... where we
expect strong customer adoption of our NextDay delivery offering," a
Walmart spokesperson said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86018.html

Flexa Launches Crypto-Based Payment App
Flexa has launched a new digital payment network that uses
cryptocurrencies to cut processing costs, eliminate fraud and preserve
users' privacy. The network uses Flexa's Spedn app to process consumer
transactions at cooperating merchants. The new payment platform makes it
possible to spend Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash and the Gemini dollar at
any of the merchants currently accepting payments.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86014.html

Technology Is Filling a Need in Philanthropy
It's surprising that philanthropy as an industry has gotten by for so
long without technology. That's changing, however. The cost of
technology has dropped at the same time that philanthropic organizations
have been discovering an acute need for it. Of the more than 1.5 million
charitable organizations in the U.S., it's not a stretch to say that the
vast majority of them are small and underfunded.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86013.html

Online Shopping Gets Real: The Rise of Interactive Product Visualization
The shopper's desire to touch, feel, see and hear is what interactive
product visualization is all about. In a world dominated by digital
interfaces, interactive product visualization gives consumers the
opportunity to experience, see, and understand products before buying
them. Interactive product visualization brings products closer to the
people interested in purchasing them.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86012.html

What Happens to Sprint if T-Mobile Merger Fails?
Sprint's best shot at success is to merge with T-Mobile. Without the
merger, I see the company continuing to struggle as a weak player in the
competitive wireless battle. Then again, this is nothing new. Sprint has
been limping along for decades, for many different reasons. If this
merger fails, will Sprint carry on as before? The reality is that Sprint
is in trouble.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86008.html

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