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28 votes
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GameStop's stock has surged 1,500% in nine months after activist investors take board seats along with a massive short squeeze
30 votes -
GoodRx? More like BadRx
4 votes -
Furniture giant IKEA is planning to sell spare parts for its furniture – its aim is to prolong the life of its products and dispel the idea that it makes disposable goods
19 votes -
Twitter has acquired the Revue editorial newsletter service, made Pro features free and reduced the fee for paid newsletters to 5%, and will start integrating it into Twitter
7 votes -
Klei Entertainment has agreed to a deal for Tencent to purchase a majority stake in the company
9 votes -
All a gig-economy pioneer had to do was “politely disagree” it was violating US Federal law and the Labor Department walked away
8 votes -
The future of building for digital: Experts talk about changing customer expectations
2 votes -
How the most hyped US oil merger in a decade went bust
4 votes -
Digital transformation at the edges of business: New careers, organizations, and means of communication
2 votes -
The "whitewashing" of Black Wall Street: A century after the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre, Black entrepreneurs in the city’s Greenwood district feel threatened with erasure yet again
8 votes -
Inside eBay’s cockroach cult: The ghastly story of a stalking scandal
11 votes -
When capitalists go on strike
5 votes -
Norwegian Air gives up long-haul flying in plan to exit insolvency – seeks to raise as much as $590 million in new capital
7 votes -
How Linksys’ most famous router, the WRT54G, tripped into legendary status because of an undocumented feature that slipped through during a merger
25 votes -
China CCP to nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group
26 votes -
Visa and Plaid abandon merger after US Justice Department Antitrust Division’s suit to block
10 votes -
Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk
16 votes -
Roku has acquired the exclusive global distribution rights to the portfolio of shows from Quibi
8 votes -
Boeing charged and agrees to pay $2.5 billion for 737 MAX fraud conspiracy
16 votes -
Gumroad's approach to work: no meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees
5 votes -
Roblox raises $520 million at $29.5 billion valuation, cancels their plans for a traditional IPO and will go public via direct listing instead
5 votes -
Is Cyberpunk 2077 securities fraud?
8 votes -
Google employees form union
42 votes -
Neofeudalism and the digital manor
14 votes -
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
17 votes -
Some educated guesses about the companies, products, and services that are facing down a terrible 2021
9 votes -
US passes ‘historic’ anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies
26 votes -
Champions of the Swedish women's league, Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC, have dissolved their senior football side and all players have been released from their contracts
8 votes -
Platforms, bundling and kill zones
6 votes -
How SoulCycle lost its soul: The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down
4 votes -
As Covid-19 ravaged Waterloo, Iowa, officials discovered meatpacking executives were the ones in charge
12 votes -
Inside the whale: An interview with an anonymous Amazon employee
9 votes -
Elon Musk says Apple CEO Tim Cook refused talks to buy Tesla at $60 billion valuation during 2017
9 votes -
The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer
9 votes -
Walmart will use fully driverless trucks to make deliveries in 2021
7 votes -
US federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls
11 votes -
Discord raises another $100M in venture capital ($480M total now) at a valuation of $7 billion
11 votes -
Have you attended any virtual conferences? Tell me about the things that worked well.
This could be anything, from presentation tips, to efficiently-managed breakout rooms, to finding ways to engage participants. How did it make a difference? I’m writing an article about how...
This could be anything, from presentation tips, to efficiently-managed breakout rooms, to finding ways to engage participants. How did it make a difference?
I’m writing an article about how companies can run better online events, so thinking “ideas worth stealing.” Give me details!
It’d be easy to focus on the things that don’t work — they are legion — but I’m aiming to capture the good stuff that we all wish everyone would adopt. So leave out the disappointments, and just tell me about the things you enjoyed.
If you’ve run a virtual event I’m interested in your opinions too, but keep in mind that this is meant to be tips-and-tricks worth sharing.
11 votes -
Pornhub purges ten million videos after losing credit card support
23 votes -
Do you think that Shopify could soon rival Amazon?
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I...
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded
I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I watch all of the developments that Shopify makes both from a technical development standpoint and logistical standpoint, it becomes more and more clear to me that Shopify can begin to take on Amazon directly.
The introduction of Shop app, which aggregates all shipments into a single application including those outside of Amazon, also allows users to browse products from any particular Shopify store. The app also notifies you of any shipping updates, and when packages have been delivered.
From a technical standpoint, Shopify's main attractions come down to a few things: order management, credit card processing, customer management, and plugin integrations. This is the core of Shopify's platform for both larger and smaller businesses. Though due to Shopify's requirement of using their CMS to serve your content, enterprise users have to look elsewhere in order to build something called "headless builds", which essentially use alternate CMS mixed with Shopify's CMS to continue serving their content.
There are a few companies that make such software in order to build out a fully custom site while still using the Shopify platform as its core, though at the moment they are a little 'hacky' but still fully functional. Given the interest in Shopify's platform at such a high level, they are very likely working on their own headless framework which could allow for 1) mainstream stores to integrate their existing platforms into a unified Shopify marketplace, and 2) to allow stores to build out fully custom websites using the Shopify platform at its core and also enroll them into a unified Shopify marketplace.
Amazon has mostly become a front for cheap Chinese-made products, laden with review manipulation and questionable product quality. By instead bringing large brands on board with a unified Shopify marketplace, those stores can sell quality products backed by their brands which can gain trust from customers, and will give rise to smaller brands that may have been unnoticed by larger populations.
[ For example, I recently bought a pair of shoes from a very popular Shopify store: they represent quality, comfort, and eco-friendliness. I personally find myself more willing to spend money on quality products from companies I know I can trust. ]What's everyone's thoughts? Are there any general problems that could come from Shopify trying to jump-start a full-blown marketplace? Do you think that companies would be willing to integrate their ERP's and CMS's with whatever API's or headless framework Shopify decides to build out?
9 votes -
Electronic Arts reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for approximately $1.2 billion
8 votes -
Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash
19 votes -
AMC warns it’ll run out of cash in January, calls out Warner Bros.’ shift to HBO Max
13 votes -
PayPal to introduce £9 a year fee for 'inactive' accounts
18 votes -
"They demolished my house for this?" In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, families were forced out for a huge Foxconn factory, but three years later, it still hasn’t been built
22 votes -
The games people play with cash flow
9 votes -
Inside the surprisingly big business of UK packaged ice
8 votes -
Sony is buying anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion.
13 votes -
Hyundai Motor acquires Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for approximately $920 million
4 votes