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Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and Amazon: Inside the tragic final days of a fabled entrepreneur

Tony Hsieh was a legendary entrepreneur who built Zappos and sold the online shoe retailer to Amazon for $1.2 billion… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet, Qumulo, Zipwhip add board directors; Bardy hires a new president; Maven co-founder steps down; and more

— Seattle data storage startup Qumulo added Elissa Fink to its board of directors. Fink previously served as chief marketing… Read More

Zappos settles major data breach lawsuit with 10% discounts for customers through end of year

Zappos is giving customers who may have been affected by a major 2012 data breach 10 percent discounts on purchases… Read More

Supreme Court rejects Amazon-owned Zappos’ appeal in long-running data breach dispute

A lawsuit against Amazon-owned Zappos will continue after the U.S. Supreme Court shot down an appeal from the online shoe… Read More

Walmart buys Zappos competitor ShoeBuy for $70M to help Jet.com battle Amazon in online apparel

Walmart is already using its deep pockets to help recent acquisition Jet.com compete with Amazon in online apparel. Walmart on Thursday… Read More

More than 200 Zappos employees take buyouts as company goes manager-less

Last month, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said in a memo to employees that the company would be moving to a… Read More

Zappos tries out surge pay for call center workers

Zappos.com, the online shoe and clothing retailer owned by Amazon.com, is bringing the concept of Uber’s surge pricing to customer… Read More

The Christmas scorecard: Nordstrom and Zappos nail it; Staples and Toys ‘R’ Us slip up

Hallelujah! Chances are you received everything you ordered online in time for Christmas. Unlike last year, no major hiccups were reported this… Read More

Zappos ditches job posts, replaces them with a social network

It’s common practice for companies to look at prospective employees’ social media accounts to get a better sense of who they… Read More

Zappos’ Tony Hsieh tells Playboy all about his platonic relationship with Amazon

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh opened up in a lengthy interview appearing in Playboy today to talk about his interest in… Read More

Bye-bye, bosses? Zappos is reorganizing to eliminate bureaucracy

Zappos’s corporate structure is going to be getting a whole lot flatter. The shoe-seller, which has almost 4,000 employees, is… Read More

How the Christmas shipping debacle will alter online retail

Just how bad were this week’s Christmas shipping delays? Online retail rating firm StellaService conducted its own test of last-minute package delivery,… Read More

Tony Hsieh wants to make downtown Las Vegas somewhere you’ll want to live

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has a vision for downtown Las Vegas as the place that you’ll want to launch your… Read More

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh: Hiring requires culture match, not just skill

If you want to get hired at Zappos, you have to have more than just the right skills. You also… Read More

Zappos to let Pinterest users show picks via PinPointing

With all the social networking and such online it was only a matter of time until shopping got more into… Read More

Study of Seattle consumers shows how weather influences online shopping

One particularly bleak January day, while staring at my computer screen for what seemed the 17th hour on an incredibly… Read More

Angry shopper sues Amazon over data theft at Zappos.com

Just three days after online shoe retailer Zappos.com suffered a serious data breach, a Texas woman has sued Amazon.com over… Read More

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

Amazon.com’s Zappos and its sister shopping site 6pm are informing users this weekend that portions of their internal network and… Read More

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

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is one of the most accomplished Internet entrepreneurs on the planet, having sold his online clothing… Read More