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Someday you may be able to make a 3D scan of your body using your phone, then get the virtual you to try on new clothes and walk around your living room wearing them. That concept is the guiding star for Adobe’s early work to meld augmented reality and shopping. To help kick off its …

Buying glasses online is kind of a pain, since finding the right fit using photos doesn’t work a lot of the time. Warby Parker thinks it came up with a better way, rolling out a new feature Monday on its app called Virtual Try-On. The feature uses an iPhone’s augmented-reality capabilities and selfie camera to slap a digital pair of …

Amazon’s years-long, meteoric growth rate may finally be cooling. The e-commerce company on Thursday reported fourth-quarter revenue of $72.4 billion, up 20 percent and at the top of the company’s guidance from October. Earnings surged to $3 billion, or $6.04 a share, handily beating analysts’ expectations of $5.67, according to Yahoo Finance. But guidance for first-quarter revenue was weaker than …

Amazon shoppers can once again buy Google’s Chromecast media streaming devices direct from the online retailer.  Listing pages for the Google Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra appeared a year ago, after the products were removed from Amazon in late 2015. The devices were never available for purchase, however, until now.  Google’s Chromecasts compete with Amazon’s own Fire TV line of streaming devices and initially Amazon …

The darling of retailers this holiday season is the smartphone. Following years of less-than-stellar sales through mobile devices, phones have now turned into reliable cash machines for online merchants looking to move as many TVs, toys and trinkets as possible during the busy shopping season. For nearly half of US holiday shopping, phones have become the default device for browsing …

Amazon said Wednesday it accidentally disclosed some of its users’ email addresses and names, but has since patched up the problem. “We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted,” an Amazon spokesman said in a statement. It said the information was shared inadvertently due a technical error, and its website and systems were not breached. …

On this podcast, we talk about: How the Japanese company Zozo hopes to reinvent online clothing shopping. Amazon will start direct sales of a lot more new Apple devices. Alibaba’s Singles’ Day hits yet another sales record. Now playing: Watch this: Buying clothes online is about to get super weird (The… 4:37 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis …

Amazon is joining its rival retailers in beefing up its free shipping program just ahead of the holiday shopping blitz. In a first for the company, the Seattle retailer said Monday it’s dropping its $25 minimum for free shipping to non-Prime shoppers in the US. The offer starts Monday and lasts until Amazon’s delivery cutoff window for Christmas (which is …

Walmart’s two-day deliveries inventory is about to get a lot bigger. The world’s largest retailer said Monday it’s adding millions more items to Walmart.com’s two-day shipping program starting next month, just ahead of the holiday shopping season. Walmart’s website offers over 75 million products, with millions of them already available for free two-day shipping, so long as a customer spends …

Amazon on Monday launched Amazon Storefronts, a landing page made specifically for the over 1 million US small and medium-sized businesses selling on the site. Storefronts joins three similar landing pages Amazon created to highlight smaller businesses: Launchpad and Exclusives, for up-and-coming brands, and Handmade, for hand-crafted jewelry, art and gifts. The new initiative is another way for Amazon to …