Liquidity Services Inc., an operator of online marketplaces for excess goods, reported a “new all-time record” for gross merchandise volume for its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 31.
Three years after the start of a pilot program to launch a procurement portal, the U.S. General Services Administration is running into delays—and the primary concern is safeguarding data, according to a government report.
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If Amazon and other online marketplaces can address the sale of counterfeit and pirated goods convincingly, why does Congress keep introducing legislation to stop the sale of such products?
A defeat for the union would dent the reputation of the labor movement, which has failed time and again to organize workers at America’s second-largest private employer after Walmart. A union victory, on the other hand, would provide a tactical roadmap for the hundreds of thousands of people toiling in Amazon facilities.
Expanding customers and revenue through online stores: In this third part of a three-part series exclusive to Digital Commerce 360 B2B, Anne Rung, director of public sector for Amazon Business, discusses how digital storefronts help small businesses spend less on marketing materials while gaining new customers outside of their base market in government and other industries.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford University student Jack Yuan launched a global PPE supply chain. Now his company, Tianchi Med, provides equipment through several internet venues to millions of buyers in need of PPE products, Yuan says.
In this second part of a three-part series on government procurement exclusive to Digital Commerce 360 B2B, Anne Rung, director of public sector for Amazon Business, discusses how small businesses can streamline complex and inefficient processes through online stores to overcome “longstanding and complex government processes” that she says inhibit small businesses from successfully competing and growing within the government market segment.
The Department of Defense reaffirmed on Friday its decision to award to Microsoft a disputed $10 billion cloud technology contract that many in the technology industry had expected would go to Amazon.
