Look out, Amazon? Walmart’s $3.3B Jet.com deal starts to pay off with big growth in online sales Walmart has invested heavily in e-commerce over the last year, most notably its $3.3 billion acquisition of Amazon competitor Jet.com, and… Read More
San Francisco’s Sift Science opens new Seattle engineering center, led by Amazon vet Sift Science, a heavily-funded San Francisco-based company that builds software to fight fraud online, is opening up a Seattle outpost,… Read More
Walmart ditches membership program, tries to best Amazon with free 2-day shipping for all customers Amazon is a tough rival to beat at its own game — so Walmart is trying a different tactic. Effective… Read More
Amazon continues to grow lead over Google as starting point for online shoppers Where do you start when shopping for something online? For a majority of people, it’s Amazon — not Google. That’s… Read More
Best of Prime: Amazon’s most-streamed original content, music, and more from 2016 Amazon is constantly adding new features to entice customers to sign up for its $99 a year Prime membership. The… Read More
Amazon is hosting another shopping holiday, this time offering 50% off digital content Another day, another Amazon shopping event. This time, the Seattle e-commerce titan is offering 50 percent off of a slew… Read More
Startup Spotlight: VIA Global Health wants to be ‘the Amazon of the medical supply world’ As Commercialization Officer for the Seattle global health non-profit PATH, Noah Perin observed a big gap in the worldwide healthcare… Read More
How does Amazon deliver in under 2 hours? Watch as we track an order from Prime Now Hub to doorstep Procrastinators everywhere are relying on Amazon Prime to get those last-minute Christmas gifts under the wire. In some cities, like… Read More
Why these Microsoft vets decided to launch an e-commerce startup in Rwanda In July, Joanna Bichsel left a high-level job at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to move from Seattle to… Read More
To catch a package thief: Online shoppers try home tech and more to thwart busy holiday Grinches Philip Gansert and his wife were vacationing in San Francisco after Thanksgiving when an alert on his smartphone notified him that… Read More
Size? Color? Nordstrom eGifting helps shoppers send a gift and recipients fill in the details Nordstrom is adding a new shopping option called eGifting that makes it easy to send a gift this holiday season… Read More
Amazon wins design patent for removable gift card stickers The holidays are just around the corner, and shoppers everywhere are asking themselves a question almost as old as Christmas… Read More
Ex-Amazon star finds new e-commerce success in company’s backyard with snack foods giant One of the biggest consumer package goods companies in the world didn’t have to think too hard when it went looking… Read More
REI sees 36-percent spike in online traffic as millions decided to #OptOutside on Black Friday For the second straight year, REI closed its brick and mortar stores and encouraged customers to #OptOutside rather than come… Read More
Small Seattle-area team helps Oreo target fans directly with limited holiday cookies and tins If you want to leave Santa a cookie with a little extra special holiday flare this season, Oreo is on… Read More
Health insurance e-commerce site GetInsured acquires Array Health, will open Seattle office GetInsured, a Bay Area based company that helps people shop for healthcare, today announced the acquisition of Array Health, a… Read More
Is there an Echo in here? Amazon sets another record for device sales over holiday weekend Amazon broke its own sales record on Cyber Monday for first-party devices like the Echo and Fire TV stick. The… Read More
Amazon says it’s on pace for its ‘best Cyber Monday in history’ Cyber Monday is still under way, but Amazon gave an early indication of its sales results in an update this afternoon… Read More
Cyber Monday: How mobile shopping and free shipping are shaking up our holiday traditions “Cyber Monday” has been a tradition in the U.S. for more than a decade, as workers return to their desks after Thanksgiving and… Read More
Amazon puts new limit on customer reviews: No more than 5 a week except for verified purchases Amazon will start capping the number of product reviews any customer can submit in a given week, limiting each person to five/week except for… Read More
Working Geek: This CEO takes his staff — and their families — to the tropics one month out of the year Bonanza CEO Bill Harding is, admittedly, not great at work-life balance. Ordinarily, that can mean headaches for a manager’s team,… Read More
Amazon invents another excuse to buy stuff: ‘Voice Shopping Weekend’ offers Alexa-exclusive deals First there was Black Friday, then Cyber Monday. Now it’s “Voice Shopping Weekend.” Amazon has come up with a new holiday… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Maven Exchange helps shoppers earn cash by recommending products Maven Exchange wants to be the accessory you pair with online shopping. The startup, founded by Seattle marketing vets Jess… Read More
Has Nordstrom’s Trunk Club gone out of style? Retailer says it’s worth less than half of the 2014 sticker price Nordstrom’s $350 million purchase Trunk Club might’ve been a fashion faux pas. The Seattle retailer is taking a $197 million write-down… Read More
Apple claims Amazon sold counterfeit products in suit against manufacturer Mobile Star Amazon is again embroiled in a conflict over counterfeit products, this time counterfeit Apple chargers and power cords that were… Read More
Amazon amps up fashion push with $15M ad campaign This time of year, it’s not unusual to see Amazon doubling down on its fulfillment centers and seasonal employees as… Read More
Study: 55% of shoppers start their search on Amazon, up 11% from last year Five years ago, if you wanted to go Christmas shopping online, you might start by Googling products or visiting a… Read More
Walmart in talks to invest $1B in Flipkart, aiming to challenge Amazon in India Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is in advanced talks to invest $1 billion in Indian e-commerce site Flipkart, as reported today… Read More
Analyst: 50% of U.S. households could be Prime members by end of 2016 — or has it already happened? John Blackledge, a Cowen and Company analyst, estimates half of the households in the U.S. could have Amazon Prime by… Read More
Ex-Amazon manager merges 5-year-old startup with Bluewater Digital, forms new digital marketing agency Zahalo DNA Response, a 5-year-old Seattle company that helps consumer brands expand their offerings on online marketplaces such as Amazon.com and… Read More
