Amazon may have been shut out of delivery-by-drone in the U.S. for the next few years, but there’s at least some good quick-delivery news for Manhattan customers: The ecommerce giant’s bicycle-delivery service now covers the entire island, according to Mashable. Amazon launched its Prime Now...
Drones won’t be delivering your Amazon Prime order any time soon under new rules proposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), CNBC reported. The FAA’s draft rules, which were published on Sunday (Feb. 15), would require commercial drones to be operated in direct line-of-sight of...
Between 2009 and 2013, according to the most recently available data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the median household income in Oxford, Mississippi, was a little over $39k a year, 55 percent of the population was working age (18-65) and a little over 20 percent of...
Americans just can’t get enough of loyalty programs — they now hold 3.3 billion memberships, retail-loyalty research company Colloquy reported. That’s 10.3 loyalty memberships for every man, woman and child in the U.S. It’s also an average of 29 loyalty program memberships per household, though...
While smartphones seem to be progressively devouring the day for most Americans, mobile commerce and mobile payments are lagging far behind the other uses of mobile devices, according to a new pair of surveys. U.S. smartphone users now spend 4.7 hours per day on their...
Target will pay almost $4 million to settle accusations that it charged California consumers higher prices than the retailer advertised because of faulty checkout scanners, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The $3.9 million fine follows a similar $2.25 million settlement with supermarket chain Safeway last...
Jet.com Inc. has closed $140 million in a new round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing its total value to almost $600 million. That makes it one of the more valuable tech start-ups on Earth, which is a particularly impressive feat considering they...
Home Depot has almost finished rolling out 40,000 of its custom FIRST Phone smartphones to in-store employees — and the new-generation devices are slowly beginning to line up with industry standards, according to employee descriptions of the phones. The home-improvement chain rolled out the first...
Social shopping platform Fancy said it has closed a new financing round that’s reportedly worth as much as $20 million, according to TechCrunch. The New York-based startup, which hasn’t made a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since its last Series C round...
