Sizzle Amazon’s B2B Biz: Amazon is everywhere — and while retail is the name of the game, B2B is growing by leaps and bounds. In fact, Amazon’s B2B is growing faster than retail, as Amazon Business is on track to hit $10 billion in sales this...
Sizzle of the Week: Uber’s Ecosystem Ambitions Payments have always been central to the Uber customer’s experience. The magic of a better-than-a-taxi-ride ending and simply stepping out while the payment resolved quietly by itself on the backend was foremost a central appeal for Uber, particularly when...
Sizzle Square: The firm, touted by some on the sell side as “FinTech’s best idea,” had a stock boost this week. At the same time, news has emerged that Square has filed a patent to help merchants accept bitcoin and other cryptos at its POS...
There’s a lot of sizzle in marketplaces. In fact, they have made tiny businesses into big ones, as even the tiniest one-man operation can gain the chance to jump from a hyper-local stage to a global one — with access to professional supply chain management and logistics...
Sizzle Toys: Yes, the last several months have been Toys R Us focused. But the wooden soldiers and dolls still march on, and game consoles still fly off the shelves. Beyond the banner bankruptcy of Toys R Us, NPD Group finds that the toy industry...
The biggest story this week in grocery came, as it often does, care of the new Whole Foods Market as operated by Amazon. Curbside delivery is coming to the grocery chain, starting with two test runs — one in Virginia Beach one in Sacramento. As a...
Sizzle Global retail connected market: It’s set to top $82 billion in just a few scant years. Not a bad haul, considering the fact that retail in general is growing at about 1.6 percent as measured annually through the first quarter of this year. But then again,...
Amazon — with the whole the Alexa/Echo ecosystem — is not an easy competitor to race with. Looking at the marketplace for Voice AI assistants at 2018’s halfway mark ,there is a lot going on and a lot of territory still to pursue. But even taking...
Sizzle Amazon’s Prime Day for Prime: Estimates are that the commerce juggernaut brought in $4 billion in Prime Day sales (according to Wedbush), up 33 percent from last year. Not a bad haul, considering the company had been initially been reported to be off to a...
