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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Many have seen the acquisition as an attempt to fight back against Shopify's rampant growth during the coronavirus pandemic. The Amazon/Selz Acquisition. Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. Amazon's acquisition of Selz doesn't represent a dramatic change to its business model.

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How An Acquisition Is Helping Wittlebee Break Into The Clothing Industry

socalTECH

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Wittlebee (www.wittlebee.com) announced the acquisition of its own, clothing company--Cottonseed Clothing Company--as it continues to build out its subscription, children's clothing service. Tell us about the acquisition of Cottonseed, the clothing company. Wittleebee is backed by Science Inc.,

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Walmart Brings Virtual Reality to Retail With Purchase of Spatialand

Xconomy

While much of the focus in using VR has been on gaming and entertainment, “virtual reality has the potential to reinvent the consumer experience—with an experience we call contextual commerce,” according to a Store No 8 blog post Monday by Katie Finnegan, Walmart’s vice president of incubation and principal and founder of Store No 8.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions.

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Securing the Door: Amazon Buys Connected Doorbell Maker Ring

Xconomy

That would make Amazon’s purchase of Ring the third largest in the Seattle e-commerce giant’s history. The two biggest acquisitions were Whole Foods last year and Zappos in 2009, according to Statista.) The purchase was first reported by Geekwire, which cited a separate report from Reuters that the deal is valued at about $1 billion.

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Interview: Arnie Gullov-Singh, CEO of Ad.ly

InfoChachkie

5) Twitter’s recent $40M acquisition of TweetDeck is an interesting development. TweetDeck is a very natural acquisition, it certainly brings talent that knows how to build Twitter applications. If you follow the tech blogs, that’s a very vocal community, but it is a tiny community.

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Qualcomm’s Ends Two-Year, $44B Bid for NXP After No Word from China

Xconomy

A spokesman for the Chinese Commerce Ministry said the actions by China about Qualcomm and. The lack of approval from the Chinese government was not taken well in the U.S., with speculation that it was related to the escalating trade feud between the two countries. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.