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equity, but they approach risk differently than many tech firms that have seen their death. They live for today and acknowledge ...

times of their relatively small online businesses down from two days to one. Consumers love it, and competitors stand flaccid on ...

attracts risk takers, and, as you might guess, has most of them. Twenty-nine of the fifty wealthiest people on the planet live i ...

While year-to-year growth for Amazon’s retail business ranged from 13 percent to 20 percent from Q1 to Q3 2015, Amazon Web Servi ...

The market to ship stuff (mostly) across the Pacific is a $350 billion business, but a low-margin one. Shippers charge $1,300 to ...

operates “B” and “C” malls. Its sales per square foot rose just 13 percent, to $374, during that same period.^70 So, stores are ...

competitor Jet.com, in what feels like a corporate midlife crisis and $3.3 billion hair plugs. Walmart was frustrated they weren ...

quarter of a billion dollars. But there was a glitch: the firm and offering made no sense. Jet.com announced soon after launch t ...

On the front end of the e-commerce channel, the cost of customer acquisition continues to rise as consumers’ loyalty to brands e ...

more households will have Amazon Prime memberships than cable television.^84 In addition, the cost to build out a robust multich ...

consumer brand—Under Armour. Note: it will be off next year’s list. Creative execs at ad agencies and brand managers at consumer ...

the price or see the packaging and are less likely to include the brand in their request. Fewer and fewer searches contain a bra ...

Why is that? Because the inside of an Amazon warehouse is upsetting, even disturbing. Unsafe working conditions? Nope. Abuse of ...

My first reaction to Bezos’s speech was: how refreshing to hear a CEO who didn’t quote Ayn Rand. However, as I thought further, ...

reality by throwing cash at it courtesy of the markets, which reward Amazon and punish the rest of retail, as they gaze adoringl ...

supported by an annual payment that includes all sorts of fun stuff: movies, music, and livestreams of NFL games. My bet is Amaz ...

own media; Apple owns the phone; and Amazon is about to molest the entire retail ecosystem. Some Big-Ass Losers Here Retail is a ...

instead offers an online grocery solution with Amazon Fresh and cashier-less grocery shopping with Amazon Go, which debuted in D ...

Amazon.^107 Walmart has ten times the number of grocery stores than Whole Foods, but Amazon’s logistics are likely to outsmart i ...

have changed a lot, and for kids like my younger self, not for the better. Amazon, good or bad, and the other innovators we wors ...