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

GeekWire

(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.

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

GeekWire

GeekWire first reported last week that the online retailer planned to shut down three offices, including its Seattle headquarters, and lay off more than 800 people in total. Qurate, the parent company of QVC, previously known as Liberty Interactive, acquired the retailer in 2014 for $2.4

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

GeekWire

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. They were former colleagues at Stack Development, a Portland software development firm. Candid Photo).

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Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs

GeekWire

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?

CIO Business Intelligence

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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NRF 2017 highlights the need for operations to support customer experience

Forrester IT

This is the first National Retail Federation Expo I've attended, and I must say it exceeded all of my expectations and reshaped my view of retail. As a supply chain and logistics management professional, I look at these latest developments from a different angle. accuracy [i].

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GeekWire Podcast: Apple Vision Pro, a developer’s take; Detecting and defusing AI deepfakes

GeekWire

Tim Cook, Apple CEO, and Deirdre O’Brien, senior vice president of retail, launch sales of the Apple Vision Pro in New York City this week. Apple Photo) First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset.

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