Noonday Collection

DoorDash Storefront | May 29, 2020

To let eateries create their own websites for ordering so they won’t need to pay marketing fees, DoorDash will reportedly announce a new service on Thursday (May 28). Chief Operating Officer Christopher Payne said restaurants will not need to pay most charges for the DoorDash Storefront offering up to the conclusion of 2020, which gives relief to a struggling vertical, Reuters reported. Eateries will receive the data from orders that occur via their sites, which is said to be important dat...

retaildive | February 24, 2020

Shogun, an e-commerce software startup, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from Initialized Capital, VMG Partners and Y Combinator. Per the company's announcement, the funding will go toward growing its Page Builder platform and introduce a new product that the company anticipates being "the future of headless commerce." The startup's Page Builder tool integrates with Salesforce, Shopify, BigCommerce and Magento. Merchants used Shogun Pages to bring in more than $22 mil...

pymnts | February 12, 2020

Regardless of whether you think it’s a good idea for the market or a legal misstep, the T-Mobile and Sprint merger is going to put 5G on a faster track. Exactly how fast the technology will be a consumer factor depends on the prognosticator you subscribe to. But one thing is clear. For retailers, 5G stands to be an opportunity to get closer to consumers and amp up the in-store experience. The new combined company “will compete for consumers at all price points, and customers includin...

pymnts | February 11, 2020

Amazon holds the dominant edge in the market for smart speakers, as about 70 percent of people in the U.S. who use the devices are using an Amazon Echo, according to a report Monday (Feb. 9) by eMarketer. That makes the online retail behemoth the definite leader in that field, and it’s expected to hold that lead through 2021, according to estimates from eMarketer. The number is slightly down this year, with 69.7 percent of users claiming the Amazon Echo as their speaker of choice. Last yea...