Alison Griswold

Walmart is leaning on subsidiary Sam’s Club in its battle against Amazon.

Amazon isn’t growing like it used to.

Typically when Amazon reports earnings, the spotlight is on the usual suspects: revenue, profit, and the company’s cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services.

Amazon plans to unveil the site of its second North American headquarters, commonly known as HQ2, by the end of this year. After receiving 238 separate bids, the company in January shortlisted 19 cities in the US and one in Canada. With a little over two months left in the year, interested parties are placing their bets on which city Amazon will pick.

There’s no contest for the favorite online shopping destination of US teens.

In April, Elon Musk admitted Tesla shot itself in the foot by attempting to overly automate its production process. “Humans are underrated,” he tweeted.

Every holiday season, publishers in Iceland prepare for jólabókaflóðið, the traditional Christmas book flood.

The same day Canada legalized recreational marijuana, 9-year-old girl scout Elina Childs sold all her Girl Scout cookies.

In 1908, Sears added a new item to its expansive catalog. Customers who turned to page 596 of catalog no. 177 were greeted by a drawing of a house.

Despite its recent push into private-label merchandise, Amazon still depends on a large network of third-party merchants to sell on Amazon.com. In a complaint filed Oct. 17 in Santa Clara, California, competitor eBay alleges that Amazon has for years violated its user policies to poach eBay sellers for its own e-commerce platform.

Ride-hailing firms Uber and Lyft are both expected to go public in 2019, and Lyft is racing to get there first.

It’s hard to explain just how much economists love Uber.

Who doesn’t want cheap toilet paper?

The US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court nomination today (Oct. 6), in a 50-48 vote, solidifying a conservative majority on the nation’s highest court. Ahead of the vote, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told the Washington Post (paywall) the outcry against Kavanaugh had helped the Republican party.

Mattress Firm, the largest seller of mattresses in the US and most pun-committed company, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday (Oct. 5). It had been reported in August to be exploring bankruptcy proceedings and shuttering its money-losing stores.

Arabella. Lark & Roe. Mae. NuPro. Small Parts.

Uber is mustering its resources to get out the vote for the upcoming US election day (Nov. 6).

Amazon, as you have probably heard, is raising wages. Its lowest paid workers in the US will get $15 an hour, while the lowest paid workers in the UK will earn £10.50 an hour in London and £9.50 an hour everywhere else.

In June, one of Waymo’s self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans crashed on the freeway outside of the company’s office in Mountain View, California, after its lone safety driver fell asleep at the wheel.

Disillusioned with conditions at Whole Foods since Amazon bought it in 2017, employees at the grocery-store chain are seeking to unionize.

Imagine, for a moment, that Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, had a fear of flying.

In January 2017, John List, an economist at the University of Chicago, had a very bad Uber ride. List had called the Uber to get to a conference in downtown Chicago, where he was supposed to present a paper. The trip, List says, wound up being a “whirlwind tour” of Chicago and taking twice as long as it should have.

MoviePass is a shell of its former self, after running out of money and downgrading a plan that offered a movie a day for $9.95 a month with an identically priced plan that provides only three tickets from a limited selection of films. Shares of MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics are trading at $0.02. No, that’s not a typo.

The best companies become verbs, says Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.