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 “You drove 1,000 miles just for this game?” Christmas 1988 was a stressful time for many American parents. Nintendo’s  Super Mario Bros. 2 was the must-have toy that year. But copies of the hit videogame were as scarce as hen’s teeth. ABC News ran a  20/20 special on the shortage called “Nuts for Nintendo.” They chatted to one dad who drove 1,000 miles from Indiana to NYC in the hopes of grabbing a copy.  “I’ve tried 7 stores a day for 3 weeks and still can’t fin...

“You drove 1,000 miles just for this game?” Christmas 1988 was a stressful time for many American parents.

“You drove 1,000 miles just for this game?” Christmas 1988 was a stressful time for many American parents.

To put it simply, Amazon is getting instant access to a market it used to operate in. Amazon previously operated a service called Amazon Webstore which was “a complete commerce platform” that enabled “companies to leverage Amazon technology and expertise in building and managing their direct-to-consumer business.” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch. Amazon was only able to garner several hundred active users at the time — significantly less than ...

Amazon has quietly acquired Selz, an Australia-based e-commerce platform that helps businesses to have their own online stores."We have signed an agreement to be acquired by Amazon and are looking forward to working with them as we ...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) bought Australian e-commerce company Selz last month, although the news went unnoticed until this week.  What ...

Amazon quietly acquired Selz on Jan. 15, but it didn’t publicize the acquisition.

© Getty Images Amazon has quietly acquired Selz, an Australian-based e-commerce platform that helps companies build online shops and add online payment options to existing websites. Selz CEO and founder Martin Rushe originally announced the acquisition in blog post last month. “We have signed an agreement to be acquired by Amazon and are looking forward to working with them as we continue to build easy-to-use tools for entrepreneurs,” Rushe wrote in the post. ADVERTISEMENT “Nothing i...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Alia Youssef/The Globe and Mail After the year Shopify Inc. has had, you might expect its co-founder and CEO Tobi Lutke to sound a little…cheerier. Riding a global surge in pandemic-related e-commerce traffic, Shopify – which ...

What was the most important financial event of 2020? Most folks would tell you it was the coronavirus pandemic and the economic devastation caused by...