Target says that Shipt "significantly accelerates Target's digital fulfillment efforts".
And last month the company announced a deal with Lightning Source, which will handle all of the publisher's digital fulfillment services.
The company, which competes directly with DigitalRiver, offers more than payments, but instead is a way for businesses to outsource their e-commerce infrastructure, including product merchandising, digital fulfillment, global tax compliance, online payments that support multiple currencies, localized order pages, PCI compliance, refund management, reporting, and more.
Walmart.com is working with Geneva Media, which in January purchased Liquid Audio's digital-music fulfillment business, the report said.
Today, OverDrive says it operates a digital content repository and fulfillment platform for ebooks, audiobooks, music and video content for a global network of more than 11,000 retailers, libraries, schools, and other digital channels.
The startup is an e-commerce enabler that works with brands across a range of services that include logistics, fulfillment, delivery and digital areas like marketing.
Today sees the public launch of SaveWave, a digital promotion, distribution, and rewards fulfillment company recently spun out of Sallie Mae's Upromise Grocery operations.
In fact, last year, Gartner (via Business Week estimated that more than 40percentt of media and digital products companies would use subscription services for fulfillment, billing and renewals by 2015.
In this last way, social gaming companies, like Zynga and Nexon, combine elements of traditional media with commerce by replacing fulfillment of a physical good with a digital one.
A: We're investing in capacity, including in fulfillments centers, in retail growth, in Kindle and digital business, in AWS.
For this to change, open and digital primary platforms are mission critical, as are clearly defined distribution and fulfillment channels in each market.
