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FlexShopper Inc., a publicly traded provider of lease-to-own financing for appliances, electronics and other consumer products, filed for bankruptcy months after firing its chief executive officer following an internal investigation into fraudulent loan documents.

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Shein is proving that it’s here to stay in Paris, even after a political backlash and controversy over sales of sex dolls and weapons. Jenny Che explains how French efforts to resist the fast-fashion retailer are falling flat. (Source: Bloomberg)

China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants, telling them not to impose unreasonable restrictions on merchants’ ability to set prices.

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Alibaba Group’s logistics arm Cainiao and online grocery business Tmall Supermarket are teaming up to expand fulfilment infrastructure and speed up deliveries, as the Chinese e-commerce giant ramps up its efforts in China’s fast-growing instant commerce battle to fend off rivals such as JD.com and Meituan. Cainiao will launch new or expand instant commerce warehouses for Tmall Supermarket across 31 mainland Chinese cities by the end of January 2026, it said in a statement on Thursday. Alibaba...

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The federal agency alleged that Instacart used a number of deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and "satisfaction guarantee" advertising.

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The FTC sent a civil investigative demand to Instacart, Reuters reported, citing unnamed people.

"I really respect Amazon, and this shocks me that they're willing to put up with this," Jim Cramer said Wednesday.

... AI increases the volume of content and makes it harder to gain attention, the company said Wednesday (Dec. 17) in a news release. “Retailers are...

Security personnel tracked connections from a contractor.

Lawmakers assailed Coupang’s billionaire founder Bom Kim for failing to appear before a parliamentary hearing on South Korea’s biggest-ever data breach, underscoring rising public anger with the country’s dominant online retailer.

Jim Cramer says investors better act fast while Amazon stock is still on the sale rack.

The Trump administration threatened retaliation against the European Union in response to efforts to tax American tech companies, singling out prominent companies, including Accenture Plc, Siemens AG and Spotify Technology SA, as possible targets for new restrictions or fees.

Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with a JPMorgan Chase & Co.-backed startup to provide financing for small online businesses, many of which need immediate capital to replenish depleted holiday inventories.

Slope, an AI lending platform backed by JPMorgan Chase, told CNBC exclusively that it is launching a partnership with Amazon's independent sellers.

Kim Kardashian logged onto TikTok earlier this month and did something new: Tried to sell pajamas, slippers and matching sweat sets like the host of an old-fashioned TV infomercial.

RWE AG has sold its former UK coal plant Didcot A to Amazon.com Inc., and could reap a major windfall from similar deals ahead, Deutsche Bank AG said Tuesday in a note.

Amazon.com Inc.’s decision earlier this year to ax 14,000 employees around the globe is reverberating at the company’s European headquarters in Luxembourg.

Grocery delivery firm Zepto Ltd. is preparing to file for an initial public offering of about $500 million in Mumbai as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, as competition hots up in India’s quick-commerce market.

PayPal has applications pending with the state of Utah and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to establish PayPal Bank.

Zillow shares fell more than 11% on Monday as investors grew concerned that Google could be testing real estate listings on its search page.

Coupang Inc.’s founder Bom Kim told South Korean lawmakers he won’t attend this week’s parliamentary hearing on the country’s largest-ever data breach, blaming his busy schedule.

The Wedbush Securities head of tech research is watching SAP, ASML, Klarna and Spotify closely

In his Sunday column for Investing Club subscribers, CNBC's Jim Cramer writes about the issues facing Broadcom and Costco.

A source told CNBC that Coinbase will soon unveil prediction markets, powered by Kalshi, underscoring the firm's push to fulfill its "everything exchange" vision.

Alipay and artificial intelligence glasses maker Rokid have jointly unveiled a smart glasses payment solution on the Rokid Lingzhu AI development platform, giving developers an easy path to build payment functions into their applications. Based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard that connects AI applications to external systems, the service allowed developers to easily integrate pre-built capabilities, such as receiving payments, by adding plug-ins, according to a...