What Airbnb learned from Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Charles and Ray Eames, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — the under cover influences of breakout web star Airbnb. Read more »
Zappos CEO rethinks urban transportation in Vegas with 100 Tesla Model S cars
Downtown Vegas is going personal car free (or hoping to) with the launch of Project 100, the out-there transportation service for the Downtown Project, from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Read more »
Amazon enjoys big etail lead as Cyber Monday hits
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New Deepfield analysis out just after Black Friday and in time for Cyber Monday shows (spoiler alert!) Amazon is by far the most popular online retail site. But there are some surprises as well. Read more »
Zappos taps Pinterest to boost sales, but its efforts fail
In a move to boost sales through social recommendations, online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos, which is owned by Amazon, has added a new feature called “PinPointing” that offers recommendations based on Pinterest accounts. Unfortunately, the feature doesn’t work very well yet. Read more »
Pharmaceutical giant goes deskless
New ways of working demand new workspaces, a fact that pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline clearly understands. It’s building its second deskless office in Philadelphia, replacing cubes with fluid spaces, laptops and personal lockers, and saving money and speeding decision making as a result. Read more »
Tony Hsieh outlines Zappos’ plans for the office of the future
The online shoe retailer has big plans for its new downtown Las Vegas digs, CEO Tony Hsieh recently explained at Venture For America’s Summer Celebration, where he laid out his vision of the community-focused, creativity-inspiring future of the office. Read more »
An inside look at the high-tech awakening in Las Vegas
Las Vegas is hardly Silicon Valley and currently has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, but Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has a plan to revitalize the city. Good thing he has hundreds of million of dollars and some promising startups to help out. Read more »
Amazon Lawsuit Tests ‘No Harm, No Foul’ Rule For Leaked Personal Info
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) subsidiary Zappos, an online shoe retailer, faces a second lawsuit over a hacking incident involving 24 million customer… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Hit With Class Action Over Zappos Data Breach
Shoe retailer Zappos is facing a national class action suit one day after it warned customers that its servers had been hacked. Read more at paidContent »
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The role of organizations, individuals and managers in the new workplace
The world of work has slowly but steadily changed over the past two decades, to the point where the word “work” itself has shifted from a noun denoting the place we went to do our job to a verb that describes the act of performing tasks. ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Defining work in the digital age: an analysis by GigaOM Pro
The future of work is already here. It is just already distributed, one might say. The freelance economy, microtasking, mobile workers, coworking spaces, crowdsourcing: All of these point to how work is increasingly shifting from the twentieth-century model of Taylorism (think scientific management applied to labor processes such as assembly-line production and fixed workplaces) to a more flexible, hyperspecialized and connected workforce. This report examines the new world of work, from the devices and software services we use to the growing role of social media, the importance of a group-centric mentality and how the roles of employees, managers and organizations are evolving. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Want some cheese with that wine? Lot18 has you covered
Lot18, the membership-only daily deals website for high end wine, is set to expand into three new product categories: food, epicurean travel, and spirits. Lot18 will start rolling out the new verticals, starting with food, within the next several weeks, CEO Philip James tells me. Read more »
So What Comes After Social Commerce?
If the first phase of e-commerce was the utilitarian hunt for staples, the next phase of e-commerce is about recreational shopping. So it needs to be a more fun and social experience which gives an edge to companies that encourage deeper social experiences. Read more »
Boo Who? Europe’s Biggest Dot-com Casualty Is Back
Swedish entrepreneur Ernst Malmsten presided over the rise and fall of Boo.com, Europe’s most notorious dot-com failure. Now he’s ready to try his hand at online retail once again — but what has he learned from more than a decade in the wilderness? Read more »
FanBridge Applies the Zappos Model to Music
Under-the-radar startup FanBridge provides tools at the crux of the music biz: the relationship between artists and fans. By helping artists email and text their fans and giving them superior customer service, the angel-funded company now counts tens of thousands of clients and 50 million users. Read more »
