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Zulily hit with lawsuits from vendors and more layoffs in latest trouble for struggling retailer

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(GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Zulily is laying off more employees and facing two lawsuits over alleged unpaid invoices, in the latest signs of trouble for the Seattle-based online retailer since it was acquired by a private equity firm earlier this year. The company went public in 2013. Qurate paid $2.4

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

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But many of them were surprised Wednesday to get an email notifying them that today would be their last at the company. Today’s is just infuriating,” said Benjamin Normoyle, a longtime engineer at the company who received the message, speaking with GeekWire on Wednesday. Department of Labor.

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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. based startup Candid raised $2 million to help retailers and other businesses run their wholesale efforts online. As the company grew, wholesale became an issue. Candid Photo). New funding: Portland, Ore.-based Candid Photo).

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Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

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Zulily’s website was “down for maintenance” Monday in the latest sign of the retailer’s collapse. The online retailer earlier this month planned to shut down three offices, including its Seattle headquarters, and lay off more than 800 people in total. The company later announced a “going-out-of-business” sale.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

How Nvidia got here and where it’s going next sheds light on how the company has achieved that valuation, a story that owes a lot to the rising importance of specialty chips in business—and accelerating interest in the promise of generative AI.

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Top recommended AI companies in Vietnam to collaborate in 2024

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