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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) not too long ago was a small startup and Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of the company's first ever job ad. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos posted an add on Aug. 22, 1994 on an online public bulletin board and discussion network called Usenet. The job add...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S, according to Geekwire. “As of June 24th, we will discontinue the Amazon Restaurants business in the US,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement to  GeekWire. In November, Amazon...

From a data-driven point of view, it doesn't make sense for Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to open its second headquarters in an American city like Detroit. Rather, Amazon will be best off looking north of the border to Canada, according to GeekWire. GeekWire assumed that the following four...

The importance of e-commerce sales in the retail world has hit an all-time high. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT)'s high profile purchase of jet.com to take on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) $111 billion e-commerce empire highlights how key an online strategy is for a brick-and-mortar business....

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has bought machine learning and artificial intelligence startup Turi, according to a report on GeekWire. GeekWire, citing sources to the deal, said the consideration was at around $200 million, marking a huge outcome for the original investors and early shareholders. The...

GeekWire reported that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has "quietly" rolled out an e-commerce functionality on its Fire TV devices, which may lead to a full scale shopping channel. The report added that a "source with knowledge of the situation" confirmed the experiment has been performing above...

Following a Facebook Inc campaign aimed at convincing The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) to bring back its long-discontinued '90s era Surge soft drink, the company did so, albeit in a controlled way. Surge was reintroduced to the public exclusively on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN...

Unsold inventory for Microsoft's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Surface RT tablet recently led to a write-down totaling $900 million. That number turned out to be greater than the amount of revenue earned on the entire Surface product line. According to GeekWire, total Surface revenue reached $853 million on...