Competing vs. Amazon and bigger Tech Giants

You can’t build a consumer brand in 2018 and ignore the 800-pound-gorilla that is Amazon. Not only does Amazon control nearly 50% of e-commerce sal... (2018)

How does the catalog-loving retailer, famous for such eccentric and extravagant products as the Navigable Water Park, continue to survive in the ag... (2018)

CEOs may grumble about wages, shareholders, and Washington, but they should truly fear Jeff Bezos’s sprawling empire. (2018)

Real-estate tycoon Mohamed Alabbar launched Noon to compete for a foothold in the Middle East’s online shopping boom. How the startup fares will pr... (2018)

Every time I hear someone say what an amazing business Amazon is, there’s a part of me that rolls my eyes a little. Bezos has changed expectations ... (2017)

Locus Robotics is raising serious cash in its bid to automate warehouses, bringing industry investment to $70 million this year. A few years ago... (2017)

Forbes, 2017: "When his top rival bought his largest customer, Instacart's Apoorva Mehta cheered. It turns out he wasn't crazy. (2017)

One shop sells nothing but buttons, another sells only liquorice, and another is ‘the world’s first textile butcher shop’. In the age of Amazon, it... (2019)

Allbirds chief executive Joey Zwillinger on how Amazon copied his company's footwear. Amazon is known for watching what retail products gain tra... (2019)

Chewy's marketing strategy is simple: Delight customers and they’ll become life long customers. This article explains how Chewy's built a business ... (2020)

Target Corp. agreed to purchase grocery-delivery startup Shipt Inc. for $550 million, stepping up its challenge to Amazon.com Inc. by speeding the ... (2017)

Google Shopping is changing its model, suggesting Google is joining the Anti-Amazon Alliance; 3rd-party merchants should do the same. (2020)

Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon’s listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun ... (2020)

Some companies regret sharing information with the tech giant and its Alexa Fund. “We may have been naive in believing they weren’t competitive wit... (2020)