How Tobi Lütke led Shopify to becoming an e-commerce giant, helping ~2M merchants run stores as its market cap rose from $46B in early 2020 to $174B today
Tobi Lütke transformed the Canadian upstart into an e-commerce giant by being the anti-Bezos. How long can the formula keep working? Tweets: @bradstone , @jensmithwsj , @tariqkrim , @jensmithwsj , @r...
eMarketer: Alibaba's share of China's ecommerce market fell to ~51% from ~78% in 2015, as users move from product searches to interactive experiences on rivals
and leaving Alibaba behind. @StephanieAYang @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... Doug Stephens / @retailprophet : The insight: E-commerce has shifted from being centralized and search driven to beco...
The union election signaled a big shift in Amazon's labor relations, but Amazon will now cite its outcome as vindication for its employment policies
Labor leaders & progressive activists say they intend to escalate both the ground war & air war against Amazon after the failed union election More than 1,000 Amazon workers across the country have co...
The crackdown on Jack Ma risks backfiring on Xi's master plan for Chinese tech as founders and investors show concern over heavy-handed suppression
In barely 40 years, China has dramatically opened up its economy and become one of the world's primary growth engines. Tweets: @retailprophet . Thanks: @pelstrom Tweets: Doug Stephens / @retailprophet...
Sources: Google will extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees
a year from now — making it the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable. Partly to give staff maximum family flexibility. One year from now. https://www.wsj.com/... @arain...
Amazon partners with Vogue and the Council of Fashion Designers of America to launch a new online store featuring independent luxury designers
get people on the platform to get their business data for its own purposes. Now its doing that for luxury fashion https://www.nytimes.com/... Shelby Ivey Christie / @bronze_bombshel : I love the idea ...
Google's new look for desktop search results blurs the lines between ads and search results, leading many critics to identify it as a dark pattern
is it a problem? [Poll] Deanna Ting / Digiday : Google's latest search results change further blurs what's an ad Doug Turnbull / OpenSource Connections : Opening up search is an ethical imperative Nat...
Rakuten: around 48% of Amazon packages in the US are now delivered by Amazon itself, up from 15% two years ago, when the Postal Service delivered 60%+ packages
Less than a decade after Amazon broke into the logistics industry, it has become its own biggest shipper. Tweets: @sub8u , @rakeshlobster , @cristinagberta , @retailprophet , @whatthebit , and @erica_...