Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is turning to merchants who sell on its marketplace for extra warehouse space, a less-costly way to expand inventory available for quick delivery. Inventory available for delivery within two business days expanded by 6 million items under the Seller Fulfilled Prime program, the company announced on Thursday. Amazon earlier this year introduced the program, which lets …

  DUBAI / Emirates Business First Avenue, the new shopping mall and hotel planned for Dubai’s Motor City, signed up leading retailer Carrefour as a key anchor tenant ahead of the project’s launch early next year. As a recent report shows that Dubai’s retail market will surpass US$52 billion in sales by 2020 and the government aims to attract 20 …

  NEW YORK / AFP President-elect Donald Trump and his team are battling back against charges of chaos and infighting as they race to set up an administration. The incoming Republican administration got an unlikely boost from outgoing Vice President Joe Biden, who said that “no administration is ready on Day One.” Trump stayed out of the public eye on Wednesday, …