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Building a Business

Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Reportedly Raises $220 Million

The latest round is said to value the two-year-old company at roughly $2 billion.

By Nina Zipkin

Business News

Amazon Launches 1-Hour Delivery in New York City

By Laura Entis

Business News

Amazon Job Postings Hint at Expansion of Same-Day Delivery Program

By Reuters

Building a Business

While Searching for a Rental, Apartment Hunters Discover In-Home Burger King

By Kate Taylor

Business News

Amazon Turns to Robots to Help Fill Holiday Orders

The online retailing giant has installed more than 15,000 robots across 10 U.S. warehouses, a move that promises to get packages out the door more quickly in the run-up to Christmas.

By Reuters

Building a Business

EBay to Give Smaller Merchants More Selling Options

The site is retooling its local delivery program and giving smaller sellers the option to offer in-store pickup.

By Reuters

Business News

USPS to Deliver 7 Days a Week During Holiday Season in Fight With FedEx, UPS

The U.S. Postal Service will offer seven-day delivery this holiday season as it seeks to capitalize on e-commerce's growth and compete against UPS and FedEx.

By Phil Wahba

Tech

Starbucks Is Preparing for Delivery in 2015

Howard Schultz calls the coffee giant's plans to deliver food and drinks "ecommerce on steroids."

By Kate Taylor

Marketing

Delivery Startups Scare Up Halloween Costumes in Bid to Boost Visibility

Companies such as Postmates, WunWun and Instacart have added delivery of Halloween costumes to their inventory for a limited time.

By Kate Taylor

Building a Business

Google’s Same-Day Delivery Service Undercuts Amazon Prime by $4

The Mountain View, Calif.-based tech goliath is expanding its same-day delivery program and starting to charge for it.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

First Authorized Drone Delivery in Europe Scheduled for Tomorrow

German delivery firm DHL will use drones to deliver medical supplies to a small island.

By Laura Entis

Business Operations & Logistics

Google’s Next Plan: Making Drone Delivery a Reality

The tech giant recently completed test flights in Australia with a drone that hovers like a helicopter and flies like a plane.

By Benjamin Kabin

Building a Business

‘We’re the Uber of X!’

A snapshot of the startups that are trying to become "the Uber" of food delivery, medical marijuana and other industries.

By Laura Entis

Business News

Square Scoops Up Fancy Food Delivery Startup ‘Caviar’

Caviar, which delivers meals from high-end restaurants that don't typically offer delivery, represents new territory for the electronic payments company.

By Geoff Weiss

Business News

Grilled Cheese by Parachute May Not Fly With U.S. Regulators

An Australian company wants to drop sandwiches from the sky in New York City, but the whole concept seems like pie in the sky.

By Kate Taylor

Building a Business

Amazon’s New Twitter Hashtag Puts Items in Your Shopping Cart

With #AmazonCart, you can now add items to your Amazon shopping basket without leaving Twitter.

By Nina Zipkin

Business News

Taking Aim at Costco and Walmart, Amazon Launches Prime Pantry

Amazon Prime members can now have big boxes filled with regular-sized household items delivered at a flat rate.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

How Drones Are Changing the Way We Do Business

From filmmaking to sales, unmanned aerial vehicles are transforming how businesses operate and grow.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

Passwords You Swallow, Sharks That Tweet and 90-MPH Cheeseburgers

A roundup of the 10 most interesting new technologies that make us scratch our heads and say, 'What the heck?'

By Jason Fell

Tech

Look Out, Amazon: Dubai Could Have Delivery Drones by Year’s End

The United Arab Emirates will employ drones equipped with eye-recognition and fingerprint technology to deliver important government documents by year's end.

By Geoff Weiss