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Wish Sold to Asian Ecommerce Platform Qoo10 for $173 Million

Retail TouchPoints

Upon close, we expect the new Wish platform will have an improved customer experience through increased product assortment and merchant selection. Writing on the Wall: New Competitors Put Pressure on Wish When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town when it came to manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town as far as manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps went. We have a lot of work ahead to further improve our business operationally, and our first steps are to rationalize corporate overhead and operating expenses,” said Yan in discussing the aforementioned planned job cuts.

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As-a-service may be more than you think

Cisco Retail

It was 11 years after the Webex SaaS model to AWS launching its first-generation IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service), EC2 in 2006, with Google Cloud and Azure following closely in 2008 and 2010. Recently I caught up with Joe Clarke, one of Cisco’s distinguished engineers in Customer Experience.