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| Nov 14, 2025 | Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to retire in January after nearly 12 years leading retailer | Walmart CEO Doug McMillon will retire early next year, according to a company filing.
John Furner, currently Walmart’s U.S. CEO, will take over as head of the retailer on Feb. 1.
Since McMillon stepped into the top role in 2014, Walmart’s s... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | CITYROW Names Veteran Brand Builder Sharon Fox to Board of Directors | NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CITYROW (the Company), a leading omnichannel fitness brand offering rowing classes through its combined at-home digital platform and nationwide brick-and-mortar studio network, announced today the ex... |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Гигафонды, новый ритейл и рекордно дорогие сделки: итоги работы венчурного рынка в 2018 году Статьи редакции | Обзор от управляющего партнёра Xploration Capital Евгения Тимко.
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Для стартап-индустрии 2018 год стал рекордным по многим параметрам. Самые дорогие сделки, безумные взлёты и падения, большое количество экзи... |
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| Jan 28, 2016 | Amazon Earnings Out, Sales up 22% | Amazon just announced its earnings for Q4 with sales up 22% to $35.7 billion.
Operating cash flow was up 74% to $11.9 billion over the year with free cash flow up to $7.3 billion.
EPS was $1, which was significantly lower than Wall Street e... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Amazon Goes After Honest.com With Elements, A Prime-Only Lineup Of Ethical Home Essentials | Amazon, always on the lookout for more products to sell on its e-commerce platform, is taking a turn to ethically sourced home essentials for its latest launch. Amazon Elements, debuting today, is a new own-brand line aimed at consumers wil... |
| Nov 5, 2014 | Amazon-Owned Sites Including Diapers.com Roll Out Free Overnight Shipping To Select Markets | Amazon subsidiary Quidsi, which operates a number of single-word domains like Diapers.com, is bringing free overnight shipping to three major U.S. metro areas starting today: greater New York, San Francisco, and L.A. The service will be ava... |
| Jul 29, 2014 | CEO behind Diapers.com raises $55M for a mystery ecommerce venture | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Marc Lore, the man behind Diapers.com, is itching... |
| Jul 29, 2014 | CEO behind Diapers.com raises $55M for a mystery ecommerce venture | Marc Lore, the man behind Diapers.com, is itching to get back into ecommerce in a big way.
Lore announced today that he has raised $55 million in funding — a first round of funding, mind you — for a new ecommerce company, Jet, which will of... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Latin American fashion ecommerce site Magnolia hits the ground running | Disclosure: Alan Colmenares is an advisor to Magnolia, but does not currently hold shares in the company.
With a regional ecommerce market growing at greater than 25% per year and a home-grown behemoth called MercadoLibre (which has a $6B m... |
| Sep 25, 2013 | Target Launches Its First Subscription-Based E-Commerce Service, Focus For Now Is Baby-Care Items | As Amazon’s online business continues to cut into traditional retailers’ revenues, Target today makes a move to fight back. The Minneapolis-headquartered retailer has just launched a pilot program for subscription-based commerce called Targ... |
| May 8, 2013 | Amazon’s Quidsi Gets Its Own Version Of Prime, With New Membership Program “Familyhood Plus” | Quidsi, the Amazon-owned parent company to a collection of single-word, e-commerce domains, including Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, Yoyo.com, and more, is today launching a new membership program called Familyhood Plus. The program offers... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Funding Daily: Alphabet Soup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today’s funding stories are about Apprenticeship,... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Windeln brings home the gold (in baby diapers) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There is more in baby diapers than just something... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Diapers.com Is First Amazon-Owned Quidsi Site To Arrive On iPad | Diapers.com, the Amazon-owned e-commerce site targeting parents with new babies, is today launching a native app on the iPad, after seeing its mobile traffic increase more than 100 percent year-over-year. In December 2012, the company found... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | Procrastinators' guide to last-minute online shopping | A list of resources and gift ideas you can get online for kids and family
I became acutely aware of how unprepared I am for Christmas when I looked around my house this morning and saw zero presents, a poor attempt at holiday thumbprint coo... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | Out of ketchup? Go grocery shopping with Quidsi | Quidsi's Soap.com launches a grocery category with nearly 10K items ready for ordering
Moms are responsible for some $2 trillion in consumer spending in the U.S. and control roughly 80% of all household expenses. Think about where all ... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Wine deals site Lot18 gets funding from Diapers.com founders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today, Lot18, a daily deals site for wine lovers,... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | Does Groupon Hope To Challenge Amazon With ‘Groupon Goods’? | Last week, daily deals giant Groupon registered a bunch of domain names with ‘groupongoods’ in them (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and interestingly, .fr). Evidently, securing those domain names doesn’t necessarily mean the company is going ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Amazon Unit Quidsi Expands From Diapers and Soap to Dogs and Cats, With New Site Wag.Com | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Today Jersey City, NJ-based e-commerce provider Quidsi—which was bought by Amazon in November for $500 million—is launching Wag.com, an online warehouse that will offer more t... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Why Is It Taking So Long For Amazon To Close Its Diapers.com Deal? | It’s been about four months since Amazon announced its plans to acquire of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $540 million. The deal has not yet closed, primarily due to an extended review by the FTC.
The FTC took n... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Silicon Valley Migrates! Accel Partners Opens Up A New York Office | In what is the first but certainly not the last time we’ll hear of Silicon Valley venture capitalists opening up an office in New York, storied venture firm and Facebook/Groupon backer Accel Partners has opened a New York outpost at 11th an... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Diapers.com Wants Nothing To Do With New Parent Amazon's Pedophilia-philia | Earlier today TechCrunch reported that Amazon is selling a book titled The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure, and later in the day Amazon defended its sale. More sickening, people are actually buying it – it’s broken the top 100.
As th... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Amazon buys Quidsi for $545M | The e-commerce giant has reportedly forced Quidsi into sales talks despite Quidsi's refusal to sell
Update at 6:27 AM PST: Amazon announced at 9 AM EST that it has acquired Quidsi for $545 million.
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| Nov 7, 2010 | Will Diapers.com buy prove taxing for Amazon.com? | Amazon.com is poised to buy household-goods retailer Quidsi, the parent of Diapers.com, on Monday for $540 million in cash and debt. (Update: On Monday, Quidsi confirmed the deal with VentureBeat.)
In so doing, the giant online retailer loo... |
| Nov 6, 2010 | Amazon Buys A Lot of Diapers.com For $540 Million | First shoes, now diapers. Amazon is reportedly about to announce on Monday the acquisition of Quidsi, the New Jersey-based ecommerce company behind Diapers.com, Soap.com, and, most recently, BeautyBar.com. Fortune’s Dan Primack, who broke t... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | Mom-commerce Site EcoMom Banks $1.1 Million | Parenting focused ecommerce site EcoMom, which provides a curated shopping experience for moms, has just received $1.1 million in Series A funding from angels and VCs alike. Investors in the round include Dan Gould (founder of Newroo and Na... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | Ex-Holtzbrinck VC launches Diapers.com clone, secures 7 figure funding | Although not yet live, German Diapers.com clone Windeln.de is reportedly about to launch with several million euros in the bank. Semi-publicly operated Hightech Gründerfonds and VC firm DN Capital (Shazam, Mister Spex) have invested a 7 fig... |
| Jul 15, 2010 | Soap.com Launches – "No Lines. No Heavy Bags. No Driving." | Drugstore.com, Alice.com and other online retailers of everyday essentials, a new challenger with a short, pretty dotcom name just hit the Web. The founders of Diapers.com this morning formally launched Soap.com, a new ecommerce site that e... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | The Founders Behind Diapers.com Launch Soap.com: "All The Robots Are In Place" | Marc Lore and Vinit Bharara have figured out a formula for selling low-margin goods online and shipping them overnight to customers. The two entrepreneurs have built Diapers.com into the largest seller of diapers and other baby products on ... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Quidsi Inc. Secures $20 Million Round of Mezzanine Financing | Quidsi Inc., the Jersey City, NJ-based operator of Diapers.com, an online baby care specialty site in the United States, closed a $20m round of mezzanine financing.
The financing was led by Pinnacle Ventures, a private venture capital fund ... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Diapers.com On Its Way To Selling Half A Billion Diapers, Raises $20 Million Debt Round | “This year we will sell half a billion diapers,” Marc Lore, the CEO of Diapers.com tells me. That is a hell of a lot of diapers. In fact Lore believes Diapers.com sells four times as many diapers as the next largest seller of nappies online... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | USA, Diapers.com Raises $30M to Accelerate Growth | Quidsi, Inc. announced that its parent company Diapers.com has closed a $30m Series E financing round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and MentorTech... |
| Oct 3, 2008 | Accel Partners To Help Bring You Cheap, Eco-Friendly Diapers | Ok, further proof that it’s looking like 1999 all over again. A huge financial meltdown is just around the corner, and front line venture capitalists are spending money on ecommerce sites. Except this time around it isn’t pet sites. This ti... |
| Elo7 recebe aportes de capital e se consolida como o maior marketplace de produtos artesanais do Brasil | Atualmente, há mais de 50 mil artesãos cadastrados com mais de 1 .2 milhão de produtos anunciados para o mundo todo através do Elo7. O site tem mais de 40 milhões de pageviews e mais de 5 milhões de visitas por mês. Investimentos vÃ... |
| Kekanto recebe novo aporte, liderado por Accel Partners e participação da Kaszek Ventures | O Kekanto, guia inovador de estabelecimentos locais, anuncia que recebeu investimento da americana Accel Partners, a empresa de Venture Capital mais renomada do Vale do Silício, que também apostou cedo em empresas como o Facebook e o Groupo... |
| Kekanto recebe novo aporte, liderado por Accel Partners e participação da Kaszek Ventures | O Kekanto, guia inovador de estabelecimentos locais, anuncia que recebeu investimento da americana Accel Partners, a empresa de Venture Capital mais renomada do Vale do Silício, que também apostou cedo em empresas como o Facebook e o Groupo... |
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Одна из панелей на прошедшей IDCEE была посвящена непростому выбору: к какому инвестору лучше пойти стартапу на ранней стадии. Выбрать бизнес-ан... |
| Amazon заплатил $540 млн за интернет-магазин детских товаров | Amazon заплатил $540 млн за интернет-магазин детских товаров
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Интернет-гигант Amazon развеял последние сомнения относительно перспективности такой ниши электронной коммерции, как продажа детских... |