Recent Posts

American Airlines sues Skiplagged over ticket price loophole

BLOOMBERG American Airlines Group Inc sued the travel website Skiplagged, which claims to help passengers save money using loopholes in ticket pricing that the airline alleged are bogus. Skiplagged isn’t authorised to sell American tickets and is deceiving customers into thinking they can book a cheaper flight using “hidden city fares,” according to the federal lawsuit filed in Texas. The ...

Read More »

Amazon imposing fee on sellers who ship products themselves

BLOOMBERG Amazon.com Inc is imposing a new fee on merchants who don’t use the company’s logistics services, a change many of these sellers consider coercive and surprising since the US government is poised to file an antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce giant. Thousands of third-party merchants who ship products via Amazon’s Seller Fulfilled Prime program will start paying a 2% ...

Read More »

Alibaba unit to hire 2,000 graduates as Big Tech crackdown eases

BLOOMBERG Alibaba Group Holding’s e-commerce arm in China is hiring more than 2,000 graduates amid record youth unemployment and as authorities eased their regulatory crackdown on technology platforms. Taotian Group, the unit which includes Taobao and Tmall, is recruiting the graduates for a range of roles including design, product and data, according to a post on its official recruitment Wechat ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend