ReplyYes has been accepted into the Disney Accelerator’s 2017 class to continue building out its chat commerce platform that allows retailers to sell products to customers via text message. The… Read More
Liberty Interactive, the parent of QVC and grandparent of Seattle-based Zulily, will acquire the Home Shopping Network in a $2.1 billion deal. Both companies are struggling to keep up online… Read More
Amazon is beating out Google and other search engines as the first stop when people online shop. That’s according to a UPS survey of about 5,000 online shoppers conducted in… Read More
Amazon is creating a lot of unrest in the grocery world. The company has its fingers in many pots in a play for dominance in food retail. Amazon Go, a cashier-free… Read More
Amazon has completed its purchase of Souq, a 12-year-old e-commerce company sometimes called the Amazon of the Middle East. Amazon paid $580 million in cash for the Dubai-based online retailer, according… Read More
Alibaba, the China-based e-commerce giant determined to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, is coming out with its answer to the Echo smart speaker. The device will be powered by voice, an… Read More
Walmart announced Friday it is buying online apparel company Bonobos for $310 million to further beef up its e-commerce operation as it continues to compete with Amazon. The move comes… Read More
“Style Code Live,” Amazon’s experiment with a QVC-style show for the internet era, has been canceled. The news was first reported by Page Six after an anonymous source close to… Read More
After flirting with the idea for years, Amazon may finally be ready to really go after the pharmaceutical market. Anonymous sources reportedly told CNBC tech reporter Christine Farr that Amazon… Read More
Amazon wants to solve a problem that plagues pretty much everyone: finding jeans that fit right. For the past few months, Amazon has been secretly building a team that helps… Read More
E-commerce is killing traditional retail, right? Well, not quite — the reality is much more complex than that. It’s true that e-commerce powerhouses, most notably Amazon, have drastically changed the… Read More
If nothing comes between you and your Calvins, boy does Amazon have some good news for you. The Seattle company has added Dash Buttons for Calvin Klein and 39 other… Read More
When you have the kind of wealth and power that allows you to build a rocket ship enterprise just for kicks, what’s there to worry about? Well, there is one… Read More
E-commerce pioneer Mark Vadon, who helped transform the way people buy engagement rings with Blue Nile and kids clothes with Zulily, has done it again. This time in pet supplies.… Read More
Walmart is reportedly in the final stages of negotiations to acquire Bonobos, an online fashion retailer aimed at helping men find clothes that fit well. According to Recode, a deal… Read More
It’s not an easy time to be in the e-commerce business. Tech titans, like Amazon and Walmart, are able to devote far more resources to their digital products than smaller… Read More
For the past six years, brothers Yevgeniy and Boris Mordkovich have been slowly building out Evelo, an online retailer of electric bicycles. Convincing customers to shell out $2,000 for an… Read More
Despite reporting a staggering $481.3 billion in net sales last year, Walmart’s value still doesn’t even come close to Seattle e-commerce giant Amazon. Amazon’s stock exceeded $900 per share for… Read More
Amazon’s abrupt announcement last week that it would be shutting down Diapers.com parent Quidsi smells funny to some of the company’s employees. Anonymous sources working for Amazon reportedly told Recode they… Read More
Confirming widespread reports anspeculation, Amazon this morning announced an agreement to acquire Souq.com, a 12-year-old e-commerce company sometimes called the Amazon of the Middle East. The purchase price wasn’t immediately disclosed. Amazon… Read More
There are plenty of things I’m happy to hand over to Amazon, rather than doing them myself. Recommending a movie? Sure. Keeping track of my shopping wish list? Absolutely. Automatically… Read More
Amazon is, apparently, very on-trend. Last year, the coveted millennial demographic bought more clothing from the online retailer than any other website, according to data from Slice Intelligence. Slice studied the… Read More
Amazon is opening another brick-and-mortar bookstore in 2017 — its 10th such retail location — in downtown Bellevue, Wash. Building permits, first uncovered by Recode, give the address as 104… Read More
Amazon is eliminating a program that rewards websites with a commission based on the number of products people buy when directed to the e-commerce portal. Amazon Associates make money when… Read More
Sometimes, even history’s most successful e-commerce company needs to take a moment to pat itself on the back. Amazon is feeling the love today, after topping the annual Harris Poll… Read More
Walmart has invested heavily in e-commerce over the last year, most notably its $3.3 billion acquisition of Amazon competitor Jet.com, and it appears to be paying off. In its fourth quarter… Read More
Sift Science, a heavily-funded San Francisco-based company that builds software to fight fraud online, is opening up a Seattle outpost, led by a former Amazon senior manager — becoming the… Read More
Amazon is a tough rival to beat at its own game — so Walmart is trying a different tactic. Effective today, Walmart is ending ShippingPass, a $50 per year membership… Read More
Where do you start when shopping for something online? For a majority of people, it’s Amazon — not Google. That’s one finding from a recent research report from Raymond James that… Read More
Amazon is constantly adding new features to entice customers to sign up for its $99 a year Prime membership. The result is a hodgepodge of content and products associated with… Read More