Amazon.com is the world’s largest online retailer, but its outside investments contributed more money to the company’s bottom line in the first quarter than its e-commerce operations. In the three months ended March 31, Amazon made more than half...
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Amazon's outside investments contributed more to the bottom line than its e-commerce operations.
Amazon Was More Investor than Retailer in the First Quarter
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Benchmark Capital scored again after Intuit agreed to buy e-mail marketer Demandforce.
Benchmark Capital Scores With Instagram, Demandforce and IPOs
The hits keep coming for Benchmark Capital. Following Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram earlier this month, the venture firm scored again today after Intuit agreed to buy e-mail marketer Demandforce for $423.5 million. Benchmark, the Silicon Valley firm that...
Read more »Enterprise IPOs Have Done Better Than Consumer Ones, Tableau Says
For all the hype over the upcoming Facebook initial public offering, companies that serve consumers don’t give investors as good a return as companies that focus on corporate users, according to data compiled by Tableau Software Inc. Companies focused on...
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