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Wholesaler Metro Looks To Boost Cloud Competence With New Digital Initiative

Metro has announced plans to 'boost cloud adoption and drive innovation' across the wholesale and retail sectors, through the development of a new Cloud Co...

Ocado's Earnings Jump On Pandemic Demand Boost

Online grocer and technology group Ocado Group has reported a 69% increase in 2019-20 core earnings, boosted by the pandemic generating huge demand for hom...

Contronics Dry Misting: Innovative Technology To Reduce Food Waste

Nearly half of all fruit and vegetables produced across the world goes to waste every year. Contronics believes that number must and can change, and i...

Walmart's Flipkart To Spin Off Digital Payments Business

Walmart Inc-controlled Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart said on Thursday it was partially spinning off PhonePe to widen the digital payments platform's acce...

China's Alibaba Beats Quarterly Revenue, Profit Estimates

China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd beat quarterly revenue and profit estimates on Thursday as its core commerce and cloud computing businesses benefited fro...

Online Sales See 'Significant' Growth In The Czech Republic: APEK

The Czech Republic has witnessed a sharp year-on-year increase in online sales in 2020 as coronavirus changed the course of shopping globally, a study ...

Uber's Food-Delivery Business Doubles In Second Quarter

Uber Technologies Inc said demand for its food-delivery service, Uber Eats, more than doubled in the second quarter, while demand for ride-hailing trips wa...

Starbucks Expands Chinese Order Services To Multiple Alibaba Apps

Starbucks customers in China can now order the coffee chain's drinks on Alibaba's Taobao marketplace and mobile map app Amap, the companies have announced,...