PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Waste was also an endemic problem for the startup, which reportedly was forced to throw out about 16 percent of the food it ordered. Munchery ran into a wall rather than planning to shut down in an orderly fashion. Corporate earnings forecasts and Wall Street: Earnings season winds on, and so do the bleak macro outlooks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

The race for the consumer’s whole paycheck sped up this week, and Amazon and Walmart were eagerly rolling out acquisitions, upgrades and the odd bits of shade-throwing as the week went on. Amazon is advancing warehouse automation tech with a big leveling up of its autonomous cart technology. told Adweek.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Note: We last updated this post in November 2017. In July 2017, device maker Jawbone became one of the most spectacular failures in the history of startups. With its demise, Jawbone become the second-costliest VC-backed startup failure of all time (per CB Insights’ 2017 Hardware Failure report ). Company: AOptix Technologies.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Then Google discarded their restrained invitation model, throwing open the doors in an attempt to build a user base that never lived up to their expectations of creating a possible Facebook competitor. Amazon isn’t the only tech giant who showed it could throw its hat in the ring for daily/local deals way later than was prudent.

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