Amazon Home Services has been in beta since November and has now formally launched. The service will take on Angie's List, Home Advisor and a slew of new players in the increasingly crowded home services space (i.e. Pro,com, Serviz, Home…
Amazon Home Services has been in beta since November and has now formally launched. The service will take on Angie's List, Home Advisor and a slew of new players in the increasingly crowded home services space (i.e. Pro,com, Serviz, Home…
Amazon has been one of the biggest business phenomena of our time. At ILM 2014, Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, unpacked the company's unlikely navigation of the dot com boom,…
Amazon has been one of the biggest business phenomena of our time. At ILM 2014, Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, unpacked the company's unlikely navigation of the dot com boom,…
After months of rumors, Amazon has entered the increasingly crowded service pro referral space with a beta test in nine markets. According to a dedicated web site for the launch, service pros will pay Amazon 20 percent for services that…
After months of rumors, Amazon has entered the increasingly crowded service pro referral space with a beta test in nine markets. According to a dedicated web site for the launch, service pros will pay Amazon 20 percent for services that…
Local's 800 lb. gorilla is always Amazon. It has already had a huge impact on retail via showrooming. Now it has invaded Groceries, and is heading towards Services. Plus it wants to provide a full range of promotional and fulfillment…
Local's 800 lb. gorilla is always Amazon. It has already had a huge impact on retail via showrooming. Now it has invaded Groceries, and is heading towards Services. Plus it wants to provide a full range of promotional and fulfillment…
Amazon has been reported to be prepping a local services marketplace test in one market. If the article is accurate, this effort won't necessarily be adopted into a nationwide product -- Amazon frequently tests product concepts -- but should be…
Living Social CEO and co-founder Tim O'Shaughnessy announced today on the company blog that he is stepping down. He will stay until a new CEO is found and installed -- a process that he "hopes" will be completed during the…
Amazon has reportedly purchased UpNext, the five-year-old, 3-D mapping and directory service that now provides "clickable building"-oriented maps for more than 50 cities, including 23 that are enhanced in depth. The service has experimented with a number of features, including…
Amazon doesn't usually speak at industry gatherings. But that was before it needed to reach out to the advertising community to sell display ads on its sites, ads on Kindle, national and local offers on Kindle, and extend its promotional…
Inventory hasn’t yet emerged as a “must have” for merchants, but the strategic importance of tracking store inventory remains undiminished. Merchants will potentially use inventory levels to drive users to specific locations, build promotions to get rid of overage (or…
Amazon.com, which is moving in multiple directions vis-à-vis local, has agreed to buy TeachStreet, the service for matching teachers and students. Amazon’s interest appears to be less in TeachStreet than in the underlying e-commerce platform for SMBs. The platform already…
LivingSocial, in a battle with Groupon and other deal providers to gain (and keep) market share, lost an eye popping $558 million beyond its $245 million in net earnings, according to a regulatory filing by Amazon.com, which owns 31 percent…
Amazon’s a sleeper bet to really shake up local commerce. But what does that look like? For sure, we see the pieces being assembled…the focus on Amazon Stores, the $175 million LivingSocial investment, the Kindle Fire rollout, the expansion of…
Should we be mentioning AmazonLocal in the same list of erstwhile “Groupon killers” as Facebook Deals, Google Offers, AT&T offers and others? As the online retail giant launches its 30th local site -- starting in Boise in June and now…
When Amazon made its deal to invest $175 million in LivingSocial, it wasn’t entirely clear how Amazon played in the local deal space. Sure, Amazon has its own non-local deals. And it owns Dallas-based Woot, a product-based deals provider. Still,…
Fresh in the wake of reports that Google will spend at least $5.3 billion on Groupon, LivingSocial -- the Avis of deal a day -- has announced a $175 million investment from Amazon. It simultaneously announced an additional $8 million…
