Canada Goose to cut 17% of its corporate workforce

Canada Goose parkas hang on display at a store in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Chris So | Toronto Star | Getty Images Canada Goose said Tuesday it will cut about 17% of its corporate workforce, following a string of other retailers that have laid off employees this year as consumers continue to pull back on discretionary … Read more

Match adds two directors in deal with activist investor

Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tinder and Hinge operator Match Group added two new directors and signed an agreement with Elliott Management, months after the activist investor was reported to have taken a stake in the company, Match announced on Monday. Instacart Chief Marketing Officer Laura Jones and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff will join … Read more

A successful Reddit IPO would be bad news for the bull market

There’s nothing like a moribund IPO market to create a pleasant backdrop for a bull run. We’ve had some small biotech deals and the usual SPAC junk. But nothing big, seemingly for ages. Until Reddit. Its initial public offering — which will probably come at a $7 billion valuation and an odd price tag of … Read more

The way AI will be sold to a skeptical public is becoming clear

Many AI companies struggle with customers understanding how the product won’t take away their ability to think for themselves. A few took the opportunity of the Super Bowl to change the narrative. There’s no greater opportunity to reach 123 million live viewers at once and get massive press buzz, even if it cost $7 million … Read more

Temu returns to Super Bowl 58 with new commercial

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Temu, the controversial Chinese e-commerce giant looking to take on Amazon, is returning to the big game on Sunday with a Super Bowl ad that lawmakers are calling on Paramount Global and CBS not to run. The company, owned by PDD Holdings, skyrocketed to prominence last year after … Read more

Activist Elliott builds roughly 13% stake in Etsy, secures board seat

Etsy Sellers Market in Times Square celebrating Etsy’s celebration going IPO at Nasdaq on April 16, 2015 in New York City. Paul Zimmerman |  Getty Images Activist investor Elliott Management has a “sizable” investment in e-commerce firm Etsy, which announced on Thursday that Elliott partner Marc Steinberg would join the company’s board. The activist investor … Read more

Meta’s continued rally could hinge on fortunes of Temu and Shein

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016.  Shu Zhang | Reuters Like many Facebook and Instagram users, marketing veteran Victor Lee is inundated with ads from Chinese online retailer Temu when he opens … Read more

Home goods retailer to cut 1,650 employees

Wayfair IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Wayfair is cutting 13% of its global workforce as the digital home goods retailer looks to trim down its structure, cut out layers of management and reduce costs, it announced Friday.  The company plans to lay off around 1,650 employees, … Read more

Amazon courts sellers at China summit as Temu and Shein gain momentum

Packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is making a fresh appeal to China-based sellers as it fends off growing competition from discount online retailers Temu and Shein, which both have … Read more

Online shopping for holidays exceeds 2020 pandemic high, CNBC economic survey shows

Click. Click. Gift. After a two-year slump below its pandemic high, online shopping made a comeback this holiday season. The CNBC All-America Economic Survey finds 57% of Americans naming online shopping as their top one or two destinations for Christmas gifts. In 2006, online shopping accounted for just 18% of responses. It hit an all-time … Read more