Zappos to let Pinterest users show picks via PinPointing

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With all the social networking and such online it was only a matter of time until shopping got more into the act, too. Zappos has announced a new page called PinPointing that recommends products based on Pinterest posts. As Bloomberg reports, San Francisco-based Zappos Labs created PinPointing, which loads Zappos products — shoes, clothes, etc…. Read More…

Study of Seattle consumers shows how weather influences online shopping

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One particularly bleak January day, while staring at my computer screen for what seemed the 17th hour on an incredibly tedious, time-consuming freelance project, I did what many would do — I turned to Zappos. Two days later, more than $800 in Frye boots landed at my doorstep. It was then that I realized that… Read More…

Angry shopper sues Amazon over data theft at Zappos.com

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Just three days after online shoe retailer Zappos.com suffered a serious data breach, a Texas woman has sued Amazon.com over the matter. Bloomberg News reports that Amazon, which owns Zappos, violated “consumer credit laws by failing to protect her personal information.” Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh wrote a message to customers earlier this week explaining the… Read More…

Hacker infiltrates Zappos network, gets customer info but not full credit cards

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Amazon.com’s Zappos and its sister shopping site 6pm are informing users this weekend that portions of their internal network and systems have been infiltrated in a cyberattack. Full credit-card and payment data were not accessed, according to messages from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to employees and customers. Still, customers will be required to reset their… Read More…

Stephen Colbert wants to know: Is Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh really a cult leader?

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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is one of the most accomplished Internet entrepreneurs on the planet, having sold his online clothing and shoe retailer to Amazon.com for $1.2 billion and a previous company to Microsoft. So, we were more than curious how the 37-year-old would hold up against the biting sarcasm of Stephen Colbert. Hsieh appeared on… Read More…