Sam Blumenthal

According to Alibaba, as many as 400 company executives and 300 celebrities are holding livestreams during this year’s Singles Day. Pop singer Taylor Swift joined Chinese livestreaming megastar Huang Wei for a livestream last weekend ahead of Singles Day.

Mystery box products have largely migrated to the U.S. from China, where the phenomenon ballooned into a multi-billion-dollar business over the last few years. The Chinese toy company Pop Mart, for instance, has built an empire out of bundling figurine into “mystery toy” boxes. Those boxes sell for about $9 each, and they have become the company’s... See more

Swaypay wants retailers to pay you instead of paying Google, Facebook, and Amazon.  Its mission is to bring financial empowerment back to retailers and shoppers alike by rerouting the billions of advertisement dollars back into shoppers' pockets as savings directly at the point of sale.