Tony Hsieh was a legendary entrepreneur who built Zappos and sold the online shoe retailer to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009. He was known for unusual experiments in management… Read More
— Seattle data storage startup Qumulo added Elissa Fink to its board of directors. Fink previously served as chief marketing officer at Tableau Software for 11 years. Qumulo in July… Read More
Zappos is giving customers who may have been affected by a major 2012 data breach 10 percent discounts on purchases through the end of the year. The discounts are part… Read More
A lawsuit against Amazon-owned Zappos will continue after the U.S. Supreme Court shot down an appeal from the online shoe retailer in a seven-year-old data breach case. In the wake… Read More
Walmart is already using its deep pockets to help recent acquisition Jet.com compete with Amazon in online apparel. Walmart on Thursday announced it acquired Boston-based ShoeBuy, a competitor of Amazon-owned Zappos,… Read More
Last month, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said in a memo to employees that the company would be moving to a flatter management structure and doing away with “people managers.” Those… Read More
Zappos.com, the online shoe and clothing retailer owned by Amazon.com, is bringing the concept of Uber’s surge pricing to customer service. Sounds a bit usual, and it is, but Fortune… Read More
Hallelujah! Chances are you received everything you ordered online in time for Christmas. Unlike last year, no major hiccups were reported this holiday, with very few packages arriving late, according to multiple studies.… Read More
It’s common practice for companies to look at prospective employees’ social media accounts to get a better sense of who they are beyond a resume and cover letter. Zappos is taking… Read More
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh opened up in a lengthy interview appearing in Playboy today to talk about his interest in revitalizing downtown Las Vegas, the benefits of selling out to… Read More
Zappos’s corporate structure is going to be getting a whole lot flatter. The shoe-seller, which has almost 4,000 employees, is slated to do away with a traditional corporate hierarchy across… Read More
Just how bad were this week’s Christmas shipping delays? Online retail rating firm StellaService conducted its own test of last-minute package delivery, placing 75 orders from 25 retailers prior to each online… Read More
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has a vision for downtown Las Vegas as the place that you’ll want to launch your next startup. Currently spread across three buildings in Sin City,… Read More
If you want to get hired at Zappos, you have to have more than just the right skills. You also have to be a proper fit for the company’s corporate… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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,… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More