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Carrefour relaunches website, Walmart buys Flipkart, Pegas launches Ape Rider bike sharing scheme

Carrefour Romania rebrands the website and launches the marketplace Carrefour Romania has made a rebranding of the online store, the old site www.carrefour-online.ro being transformed into www.carrefour.ro/supermarket. The new online supermarket delivers to customers in Bucharest and neighboring areas, in two hours: food, beverages, detergents, cosmetics, or baby care products. On this occasion, Carrefour also introduces a Marketplace platform, the first such platform of a food retailer in Romania, called Carrefour and Partners, where for the time being there are available around 140,000 products in different categories. → Read more at Retail & FMCG Walmart buys Flipkart, India’s biggest online retailer Global retail giant Walmart has paid $16bn (£11.8bn) for a majority stake in Flipkart, India’s biggest online retailer, making this the world’s largest ever e-commerce acquisition. Walmart, best known for its grocery stores, discount department stores and hypermarkets, is ubiquitous in the US. But its sales have barely grown

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Amazon creates new jobs in Romania, Instagram offers financial tools, we learned about GDPR at GPeC Live

Amazon opens new R&D center in Bucharest, to create 650 new jobs Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) inaugurated its new HQ and research and development facility in Bucharest, creating 650 new jobs in the technology and corporate fields. The new R&D facility in the Romanian capital will work on several technologies, including for home assistant Alexa and for the AWS infrastructure. The e-commerce giant already has 1,000 employees in Romania and has invested over EUR 100 million in the past 13 years. The Bucharest office is located in the northern part of the city and covers over 13,000 sqm on five floors. It includes a new engineering center and one for technology development, including for the testing and language solutions development for Alexa. → Read more at Business Review Instagram is making it easier for customers to talk to businesses and book appointments Instagram is unveiling new features to

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