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Amazon.com hofft offenbar, 600.000 US-Mitarbeiter durch Roboter zu ersetzen
Stellenstreichungen könnten bis 2027 zu Kosteneinsparungen von 30 Cent pro verkauftem Produkt führen, besagen interne Dokumente. Amazon.com wiegelt ab.
#Amazon #Arbeitswelt #Automatisierung #eCommerce #Handel #Logistik #Roboter #Wirtschaft #news
A cyberattack has forced Japanese office equipment seller Askul to suspend order receipts and shipments, and led Ryohin Keikaku to take the website of its Muji brand of household products offline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/20/companies/japan-e-commerce-askul-cyberattack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #askul #ryohinkeikaku #cybersecurity #hacking #ecommerce
🤖 How 73% of Your E-commerce Visitors Could Be Fake
｢ The purpose is likely to manipulate e-commerce metrics, perhaps to influence a site's internal recommendation algorithms or to make cart abandonment rates look normal amidst a sea of other non-purchasing bots ｣
https://joindatacops.com/resources/how-73-of-your-e-commerce-visitors-could-be-fake
Anybody have experience with point-of-sale services? I did enjoy doing the fair, and I think I probably should do more events like this. Payment services seem to be a moving target, though.
I have the square app installed on my Android phone (and had to delete about half of my useful apps to get it on there -- why the hell do they need 676 MB for this?)
A quick look at Zelle and Venmo makes me think I would need to keep a proprietary Android phone just for POS use if I wanted to take those.
I don't think they're going to work with LineageOS are they?
I wonder, would I be better off to get some kind of dedicated device for this?
#eCommerce #PointOfSale #Zelle #Venmo #SquareUp #Android #AskFedi
Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma has returned to a hands-on role at the Chinese tech and e-commerce giant after vanishing from the public eye amid an antitrust investigation in late 2020. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/16/tech/jack-ma-make-alibaba-great-again/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #jackma #china #ecommerce #alibaba
Amid the rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce, there is increasing global momentum to review systems that allow tax exemptions for low-value imports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/21/economy/japan-low-value-imports-duty-exemption-revision/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #trade #ecommerce #china #financeministry
Oh. So, Stripe - the online payment company, owned by the Collison brothers - is refusing to process payments for any LGBTQ+ content, apparently.
A large number of Japanese World War II relics have found their way to online auction sites, raising concerns among those trying to preserve such items, with Japan set to mark 80 years since the end of the war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/war-relics-auctioned-online/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #internet #ecommerce
heise übernimmt Hardware-Shop Mindfactory: Bundeskartellamt gibt grünes Licht
Das Bundeskartellamt stimmt der Übernahme von Mindfactory zu. Gute Nachrichten gibt es für Kunden im Vorfeld der Insolvenz.
heise übernimmt Hardware-Shop Mindfactory: Bundeskartellamt gibt grünes Licht
Das Bundeskartellamt stimmt der Übernahme von Mindfactory zu. Gute Nachrichten gibt es für Kunden im Vorfeld der Insolvenz.
China is preparing to counter the threat of U.S.-backed digital dollars by leveraging its powerful e-commerce firms and Hong Kong’s crypto-friendly financial system to promote stablecoins tied to local currencies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/30/world/china-ready-for-us-stablecoins/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #hongkong #stablecoin #crypto #blockchain #ecommerce #libra #digitaldollars #cryptocurrencies
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