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Company says sales to shippers across its newly-acquired businesses boosted revenue 10% in fourth quarter.

The founders of Flipkart Internet Pvt., India’s largest e-commerce company, are among the latest to enter the billionaires club, according to a recent report.

There was trouble at one of India's biggest e-commerce companies this week as Snapdeal.com employees held a protest Wednesday, fearful that they would lose their jobs after executives raised the bar on performance at a call center prompting some workers to quit.

With digital sales up 34% last quarter, the retailer says in-store pickups were central to both e-commerce and store sales growth.

Touch commerce enables customers to make secure payments on any merchant’s website or app without having to provide registration or log-in details every time they make a purchase. Deloitte Global predicts 50 million people will regularly use third-party touch-based payment services by the end of the year.

Nordstrom is spending heavily to boost its market share online and compete with e-retailers like Amazon.com, a strategy that is weighing on profits

Shares in Alibaba’s flagship health-care unit fell 14% in Hong Kong trading after the Chinese government suspended a drug-monitoring system that the unit created and operated.