Amazon leads mobile site performance in July

Mobile site performance is a big factor in winning the mobile shopper — and despite heavy Prime Day traffic, Amazon bested everyone else as Walgreens fell. 

By Dan O'Shea • Aug. 31, 2017

Report: Target opts out of Amazon cloud services

By moving away from the e-commerce giant's lucrative cloud service business, retailers seem to be trying to undermine Amazon's main source of support.

By Daphne Howland • Aug. 30, 2017

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The state of loss prevention in retail

The types of losses attributed to retail theft has become more apparent — as is the need for more in-depth reporting and prevention strategies. 

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Startup ushers in the cashierless checkout era

Cashierless checkout isn't just for Amazon and Walmart anymore, as Standard Recognition looks to enable more retailers with the capability.

By Dan O'Shea • Aug. 22, 2017

Study: Retail automation market worth $18.9B by 2023

From checkout-free technology to robots that track inventory, the retail automation market is poised for double-digit growth in the coming years.

By Dan O'Shea • Aug. 21, 2017

HBC has opened corporate office in India

Retailers continue to look East for professional talent, as Saks follows the same path that J.C. Penney and others have taken.

By Dan O'Shea • Aug. 17, 2017

'Rage Grades' aim to keep rage clicks in check

Rage clicking is a common user reaction to site performance problems and retail website operators are getting tools to understand it better.

By Dan O'Shea • Aug. 10, 2017

Fillr, targeting autofill issues, cart abandonment, hits 100 million users

Fillr shed a light of how inaccurate browser-based autofill technology can be, and then did something about it.

By Dan O'Shea • Aug. 8, 2017

Survey: Security execs fear data breaches, despite drop in retail incidents

Data breaches are declining faster in retail than other verticals, but fears remain and lessons aren't being learned.  

By Dan O'Shea • Aug. 2, 2017

Bon-Ton expands tech push with Zebra RFID system

Some 180 Bon-Ton-owned stores are getting RFID technology to help them manage inventory as the retailer continues to look to tech to help it out of the doldrums.

By Dan O'Shea • July 30, 2017

Report: Walmart developing facial-recognition tech

The retailer is looking to the technology to monitor shopper dissatisfaction and improve the store experience. 

By Dan O'Shea • July 19, 2017

First-ever Neiman Marcus CISO departs

In 2014, the company became one of the first retailers to hire a chief information security officer, just months after a high-profile data breach.

By Dan O'Shea • July 13, 2017

NRF: Inventory shrink cost the industry $48.9B in 2016

Losses from shoplifters and employee theft are rising as retailers scale back security investments. 

By Daphne Howland • June 26, 2017

Juniper: Retailers headed for $71B in e-commerce fraud losses

Numerous factors, including the growing popularity of click-and-collect programs, will expand retailers' card-not-present fraud losses over the next five years, according to the research firm.

By Dan O'Shea • June 22, 2017

Hubba launches group discussion forums for retailers, brands

Small merchants can trade learnings and share advice through new Hubba Group discussion forums on a variety of retail topics.

By Dan O'Shea • June 20, 2017

The Buckle latest retailer to suffer POS malware attack

The specialty apparel retailer, which suffered a 6-month-long attack, said malicious code had been removed and sensitive customer information was not compromised. 

By Dan O'Shea • June 19, 2017

Report: E-commerce fraud declining overall, but not for department stores

Overall e-commerce fraud decreased almost 35% from the start of 2016 to the beginning of 2017 across several industries, thanks in part to machine learning.

By Dan O'Shea • June 1, 2017

Kmart hit by another malware attack

KrebsonSecurity reported that some Kmart stores suffered security breaches of their payment card processing systems, though the retailer insisted that no personal details were compromised.

By Dan O'Shea • June 1, 2017

Target to pay $18.5M settlement for 2013 data breach

The retailer is closer to putting its massive holiday season snafu behind it, but it's still awaiting court approval to settle a consumer class action lawsuit.

By Dan O'Shea • May 23, 2017

Apple, Visa sued for alleged patent infringement over Apple Pay

Tech company Universal Secure Registry has filed a lawsuit claiming that Apple Pay infringes on four of its patents.

By Dan O'Shea • May 22, 2017

Brooks Brothers suffers 11-month data breach

The retailer said some customer card information was collected by malicious software that had been installed on its payment processing systems.

By Dan O'Shea • May 14, 2017

Staples names first chief information security officer

The office supplies retailer is continuing to bolster its technology department, which also recently added a chief technology officer position for the first time.

By Dan O'Shea • May 9, 2017

Survey: Consumers want more biometric payment options

Nearly 80% of those surveyed said they want more biometric authentication methods beyond fingerprint authentication to access mobile banking or payment apps, EyeVerify found.

By Dan O'Shea • May 7, 2017

Anti-fraud tech firm Signifyd raises $56M in Series C funding

The company received major investments from Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo Ventures and American Express.

By Dan O'Shea • May 4, 2017

Report: Gift cards increasingly targeted in latest evolution of security attacks

Criminals are capable of using a variety of methods, including fast, automated bots to crack the serial numbers of gift cards, according to Flashpoint.

By Dan O'Shea • May 3, 2017

Bad bots represent 15.6% of e-commerce site traffic, skewing analytics

A Distil Networks report found that 94% of e-commerce sites are hit with bad bots that distort site traffic and prompt security concerns.

By Dan O'Shea • April 27, 2017