Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 1 at 3:40 am PT
Amazon defended its free-spending habits yesterday in a call with analysts, arguing that it continues to see new opportunities and will invest accordingly.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 12 at 6:00 am PT
The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 11 at 9:58 am PT
Kevin Ryan is denying rumors this morning that the luxury e-commerce company is undergoing a massive restructuring; nearly all of its 900 employees and business units remain intact.
Joseph Walker, Reporter, FINS in News on January 10 at 3:41 pm PT
In restoring the morale of Yahoo employees, Chief Executive Scott Thompson has his work cut out for him. The company’s 14,000 employees have endured five different CEOs over the past five years, several rounds of layoffs, and regular criticisms in the press of the company’s slow innovation cycle and executive mismanagement.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 3 at 7:30 am PT
The number of people playing games on Facebook tanked last week, as some game makers were unable to capitalize on people’s downtime during the holidays.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 12, 2011 at 9:32 am PT
Trunk Club, an online shopping service for men who don’t like to shop, has hired Rob Chesney as COO. Most recently, Chesney was an entrepreneur in residence at Greylock Partners. Before that, he served as VP of eBay’s Buyer Experience team, overseeing fashion, technology, media and home. Trunk Club, which has about 60 employees, is projecting revenues of $5.5 million this year
and raised $11 million in capital back in September.
Melanie Trottman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on December 1, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT
Workers fired or disciplined for bad-mouthing employers on social-networking sites are fighting back using a decades-old labor law — a new front in the murky battle over what workers can do and say online.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 31, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
Seattle-based Big Fish doles out a hefty dividend to nearly all of its employees, as renewed rumors hint that an IPO could come as soon as next year.
Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 20, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT
About 45,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers agreed to return to work Tuesday, under a previous contract, after striking to protest benefits cuts that the telecommunications giant sought to offset declining sales in its traditional wireline business.
