A huge exit doesn’t always require venture capital money. That’s what Pacvue just demonstrated. Los Angeles-based e-commerce software company Assembly announced today that it acquired Pacvue, a Seattle startup that sells… Read More
Amazon said Monday that it is adding 150,000 seasonal jobs to bolster the ranks of its operations network during the busy holiday season. The annual boost in holiday help comes… Read More
The “future of coffee” has arrived — at least for the 1,000 or so people who will get a chance to buy some cold brew from Atomo Coffee, the Seattle-based… Read More
Walmart reported a 95% increase in its U.S. advertising sales in the second quarter, and said its number of active advertisers rose more than 175%, as more companies and brands… Read More
Direct retail sales are poised to represent less than half of Amazon’s business for the first time in its history — a fundamental shift that reflects the e-commerce giant’s expansion… Read More
Some eagle-eyed Amazon customers have noticed a change in the options available from their “Saved for Later” lists, and we can confirm they’re not imagining things. For some users, on… Read More
Another day, another big funding round for a Seattle startup. E-commerce company Fabric just landed a $100 million investment to help retailers sell their products online. The funding comes just five… Read More
Fakespot, a mobile app that analyzes customer reviews on Amazon and other online retailers, disappeared from Apple’s App Store on Friday following a complaint from Amazon that the service was… Read More
Amazon said Wednesday that this week’s Prime Day sales event, which ended Tuesday, was the biggest two-day period ever for the e-commerce giant’s third party sellers. In the midst of… Read More
The news: DevHub, the Seattle software-as-a-service startup that is used by more than 179 brands and/or their agencies to build websites and landing pages, has acquired New York-based Brickwork, a… Read More
As part of a continued effort to show that it’s serious about cracking down on counterfeit goods sold on its platform, Amazon said Monday that it blocked more than 10… Read More
Mark Vadon is on the prowl for the next e-commerce superstar. Vadon, who previously co-founded Zulily and Blue Nile and served as chairman of online pet products retailer Chewy, is… Read More
Over the past two years, dozens of heavily-funded investment firms have formed with a singular purpose: Buying small companies that sell through Amazon. In many ways, these so-called aggregators operate… Read More
New funding: Bottomless, the small Seattle startup with big e-commerce dreams, has raised $4.5 million in a new Series A funding round to help with the continued growth of its… Read More
New data from Adobe puts a number on the huge pandemic-driven acceleration of e-commerce over the past year. Some key takeaways: COVID-19 gave e-commerce a $183 billion boost from March… Read More
Mark Vadon, the Seattle e-commerce entrepreneur who co-founded Zulily and Blue Nile and served as chairman of Chewy, is joining the SPAC craze. Vadon has emerged as the chairman and… Read More
Another Seattle e-commerce logistics startup is raising more cash. This time it’s SoundCommerce, which just announced a $15 million Series A round. SoundCommerce aims to help online retailers improve operational… Read More
When Jeff Bezos named e-commerce software company Shopify as an example of Amazon’s growing competition in his testimony to a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee last year, e-commerce consultant and former… Read More
New funding: E-commerce startup Fabric has raised $43 million to help mid-market brands that are trying to keep up with Amazon but don’t have the technical expertise or capability to… Read More
Two former Zulily executives have landed more than $150 million to fuel a new venture that seeks to buy profitable e-commerce businesses. Jason LeeKeenan and Kevin Saliba are the co-founders… Read More
Amazon has consistently defended its safety record following exposés by the Center for Investigative Reporting over the past year documenting injury rates higher than previously reported at its warehouses. That… Read More
Amazon is set to break revenue records this holiday quarter as it spends heavily on hiring and delivery capacity to meet huge demand amid the pandemic. As part of its… Read More
Amazon’s latest take on e-commerce automation is making its public debut, just in case it wasn’t easy enough already to blow your budget on Amazon.com. The company’s Dash Smart Shelf… Read More
The online used car marketplace Shift is moving into the Seattle region, expanding the 6-year-old company’s coverage area the length of the West Coast. Shoppers within a 60-mile radius of… Read More
Amazon announced another lawsuit against alleged counterfeiters Thursday, part of the company’s ongoing strategy to portray a tough-on-fraud image. Amazon and J.L. Childress, a seller of travel gear for parents,… Read More
Faisal Masud knows e-commerce. The tech vet spent more than six years at Amazon in the 2000s, helping build inventory tools and launching the AmazonBasics product line. He then had… Read More
When Jonathan Sandals moved to Seattle from Montreal in 2019, he fell in love with his new city, and the Ballard neighborhood where he settled, because he was taking everything… Read More
Amazon said Thursday that this year’s Prime Day provided the biggest boon to third-party sellers in the sales event’s six-year history. Outside merchants sold more than $3.5 billion of goods… Read More
Amazon and its army of logistics workers are bracing for the first-ever fall Prime Day starting Tuesday, as the extraordinary circumstances of 2020 bring new challenges for a shopping event… Read More
A grand jury in the Western District of Washington has indicted six people in a multi-million dollar scheme to bribe Amazon employees and contractors to gain an unfair advantage on… Read More