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USA
Stores are being hit by online retailing
WHEN AMERICA’S RETAIL bosses gathered in New York earlier this year for the annual shindig of their trade association, the National Retail Federation, there was much talk about new technology to improve the industry’s prospects, from sensors that read consumers’ facial expressions to machine-learning software that can optimise prices. The ...
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Cina USA
Online retail is booming in China
ON AN AVERAGE morning a young urban professional anywhere in the world might wake up, check her social-media feed and order a cab on her mobile. While sitting in traffic, she might use her phone to purchase groceries and watch a video, and later to pay the driver and buy ...
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Cina USA
E-commerce takes off
IN WAREHOUSES AROUND the globe, they wait: toys, phones, dresses, televisions, blankets, trainers, laptops and much more. In China, online retailers are gearing up for “Singles Day”, November 11th, the world’s busiest shopping day. Last year Alibaba, much the biggest of the country’s e-commerce giants, rang up sales of $18bn ...
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USA
The mighty Amazon
Amazon’s spheres of influence FOR SHOPPERS IN 2017, it can be hard to remember what life was like in the early 1990s. There was mail order, but by and large if you wanted to buy something you went to a shop. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, who was then working for a ...
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USA
The future of online retailing is bright
Cainiao has developed a waist-high robot called Little G to undertake the final leg of delivery A STRETCH OF Bleecker Street, in Manhattan’s West Village, is among the loveliest in New York, with quaint shopfronts opening on to tree-lined pavements. Until recently a landfill across the Hudson river, in New Jersey, ...
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Cina India USA
Alibaba and Amazon look to go global
IN SEPTEMBER 2014 Jeff Bezos announced his first big investment in India, hopping aboard a colourful bus in Bangalore. It was the start of a rapid $5bn investment in India, part of Mr Bezos’s plans to take Amazon global. Two months later Alibaba’s Jack Ma appeared in Delhi. “We will ...
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Portogallo
A bolsa faz muita falta ao país
Ao contrário de países onde o financiamento via mercado de capitais é a principal opção de financiamento, em Portugal é a banca que desempenha esse papel.
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Portogallo
O destino Madeira é muito mais competitivo e tem uma promoção mais eficaz, afirma secretária regional do Turismo
A secretária regional do Turismo e da Cultura, Paula Cabaço, destacou na sessão de encerramento da conferência do Novo Banco sobre turismo que o setor tem crescido em vários indicadores.
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Brasile Portogallo
J. Macêdo faz investimento de R$ 350 milhões na Bahia
Em meio ao investimento está a obra de modernização do terminal de grãos do Porto de Salvador demandou um aporte de R$ 27,5 milhões
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Cina
Bolsa de Xangai abre com queda de 0,09%
A bolsa de Xangai, principal praça financeira da China, abriu hoje a cair 0,09%, para 3.404,05 pontos.