Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) has been a major retail disruptor in China thanks to its creative approach and willingness to embrace technology. This week, the company provided investors with ...

Carvana announced Wednesday the launch of its second car vending machine in North Carolina and ninth across the country. The Charlotte, N.C., facility is eight stories high and holds up to 32 vehicles ...

China's Alibaba sure knows how to move product (it is one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies, after all), and for its move into the automotive space it is pulling out all the stops. Customers ...

China's Alibaba wasn't the first company to create a car vending machine - that honor belongs to a Singaporean entrepreneur who transformed Singapore's Autobahn building into what appears to be a ...

Carvana is opening a car-vending machine in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday, its first on the East Coast and sixth overall. The five-story glass facility holds 18 cars and arrives less than two years ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Auto retailer Carvana is ...

On December 16, 1884, 134 years ago today, William Henry Fruen, of Minneapolis, patented his "Automatic Liquid-Drawing Device." Designed to look like a building, Fruen's device dispensed mineral water ...

Wall Street’s newest romance is with the automatic vending-machine industry, which is changing the eating and buying habits of America. Shares in vending companies have suddenly been tagged with the ...

If the portobello-and-goat-cheese sandwich doesn't drop at the Redbox vending machines that McDonald's has sprinkled around the Washington area, shaking the box isn't possible, and shooting it won't ...