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Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

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GeekWire reported on two lawsuits filed against Zulily by a logistics company and a software development consultancy in recent months, both alleging unpaid invoices. The firm has not responded to multiple emails from GeekWire about developments at Zulily over the past several months.

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As Zulily promotes ‘going out of business sale,’ longtime employees reflect on retailer’s impact

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. “We are confident Regent is the right partner for Zulily to continue serving its customers, while benefiting from Regent’s depth of operational and strategic expertise in the retail and apparel sectors,” said David Rawlinson, president and CEO of Qurate, in a statement at the time.

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Portland startup Candid lands $2M to help brands and retailers run their wholesale business online

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Candid is a software program meant to help retailers with their online wholesale efforts. We want retailers and brands to be on equal footing with [large companies] who can throw huge budgets at software and employees to make wholesale work for them,” Bloom said in an email. “It Candid Photo). New funding: Portland, Ore.-based

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‘Just infuriating’: Online retailer Zulily flip-flops, now plans to lay off employees amid holidays

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Regent has acquired more than 30 businesses since 2015, including consumer retail and apparel brands. GeekWire reported last week on two lawsuits filed against Zulily by a logistics company and a software development consultancy in recent months, both alleging unpaid invoices.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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.” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code, by Microsoft security engineering leaders Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision.

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