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The online sales on Black Friday hit a record of $7.4 billion this year, according to the 2019 Holiday Shopping Trends report by Adobe Inc (NASDAQ: ADBE). Record Sales The sales are up 19.6% compared to last year. The Black Friday sales fell slightly short of Adobe’s estimated $7.49...

Days before the Black Friday shopping crush, an investigative journalism outlet and a California think tank separately released two scathing reports documenting the social, environmental and economic costs of Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) breakneck-speed package delivery and fulfillment model...

A Canadian-based software platform for creating and running online stores has reached the 1 million milestone as Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) now officially has that many businesses using its services. Although its contribution to a wider picture of economic activity is still pale comparing to the online...

It's still two months before former eBay's boss John Donahoe takes charge of Nike Inc's (NYSE: NKE) boat, but significant alterations are already taking place. And one significant change is that Nike products will no longer be available on no other than eBay's main competitor, the e...

Trouble Is on the Horizon for Retail Chains Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) just reported its third quarter earnings. The Atlanta-based company trimmed its fiscal year sales outlook, explaining that its sales fell below expectations because of the timing of benefits of its strategic investments. For...

A federal judge ordered a new trial in a lawsuit that pit a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier against Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), siding with the e-commerce giant's argument about flawed procedures in the first trial. In October, a jury in western Washington federal court awarded Waco-based...

Merchants who sell their products on Amazon.com, Inc.'s website (NASDAQ: AMZN) but manage the fulfillment and delivery of those goods cannot use the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) Priority Mail one- to three-day delivery service unless they purchase the postage from Amazon, according to several...

Today, there's an app for pretty much anything. Moreover, apps keep developing as the world gets more and more connected. Entrepreneurs and managers are able to choose from a variety of tools to improve their productivity since every moment wasted during work is either time or both time and...

Online retail giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has pushed traditional transportation and supply chain management companies to rethink how they facilitate the delivery of freight to businesses and consumers.  "I think it's amazing what they've been able to do, the disruption that it's been...

The waning weeks of earnings season are upon us, which means many major retailers are next in line to open their Q3 books. As they lay out the goods, analysts will be looking for the impact of the “two Cs”—consumer spending and consumer confidence—on places known to clothe...

Air Transport Services Group (NASDAQ: ATSG) reported a 219% increase in third-quarter operating profit of $105 million. The outsourced provider of air cargo services for Amazon.com's Prime network and other customers generated $366 million in revenue, up 79% from the same period in 2018. The gains...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Wednesday it will build a $40 million robotics research and manufacturing facility in Westborough, Massachusetts, about 30 miles southwest of Boston. The 350,000-square-foot complex, scheduled to open in 2021, will be Amazon's second robotics development and...

A Texas motor carrier scored a legal victory against Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) in a lawsuit highlighting the e-commerce giant's sometimes testy relationship with trucking industry.  Waco-based Central Freight Lines, which has 1,651 power units according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...

SaaS life cycles, blitzscaling, Amazon's earnings, and more Craig and Jon talk Amazon's earnings and their accelerated transportation costs, e-commerce and the importance of UX, the life cycle of SaaS and creating relationships at the point of sell, blitzscaling, plus warehouse strategy and the...

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