The spirits industry in the U.S. is big business — topping $210 billion last year and growing. The ad spend behind getting people to pick one brand over another is even bigger. But, as Drizly co-founder and COO Justin Robinson told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, most...
Amazon Business announced Tuesday (July 25) that it now boasts more than one million business customers since launching the service in April of 2015. Amazon Business offers business-only pricing on millions of products and access to more than 85,000 business sellers. In a press release,...
“It’s a technology company that sells pizza.” So spoke Jim Cramer — CNBC’s very excitable stock guru — on the recent power the pizza people at Domino’s have been bringing to the game. Domino’s, following solid gains posted by the the U.K.-based franchise of Domino’s Pizza,...
San Francisco-based ride hailing outfit Lyft is gearing up to bring self-driving vehicle technology to market. But, as the AP reports, the approach will differ from that seen with other companies. Lyft announced July 21 it is opening up its network and inviting companies across...
In something that felt like a throwback to the 1990s, O.J. Simpson was, once again, all over the news. This time, the news-worthy event was his parole hearing last week for the armed robbery and kidnapping of a sports memorabilia dealer in a Las Vegas hotel room more...
Summer is, for some, almost synonymous with cracking open a cold one, be that a beer, wine cooler or mixed drink. While drinking on the deck is a good deal of fun in the summer sun, going to the grocery or liquor store to keep...
Space entrepreneur Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, has purchased the X.com domain name from PayPal. Musk confirmed the purchase in a tweet thanking PayPal for enabling him to purchase the domain name back. Financial technology news site Finextra reports he has no plans for the...
Wells Fargo announced Thursday it is launching a new division combining a series of work functions from investor relations and corporate relations to public policy. The division launch comes in the wake of well-publicized scandals that have “tarnished the bank’s reputation,” according to Reuters. The shift...
It’s been a good year for self-checkouts in the retail industry. Research and consulting firm RBR Research just shared news of its findings from the Global EPOS and Self-Checkout 2017 study, which showed a 67 percent growth in self-checkouts. In 2016, there were 49,000 self-checkout (SCO)...