Ecommerce

Airbnb, the vacation rentals startup, announced Friday that it hired Laurence Tosi away from Blackstone  to join the company as chief financial officer. The hiring of Tosi, who spent seven years as CFO at the private equity firm, could be a signal that the $25.5 billion startup is nearing an IPO.

Max Levchin looks to reinvent the credit market with his lending startup Affirm

Sheryl Sandberg is reportedly being eyed as a possible candidate to replace Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger when he steps down in 2016.

Groupon Inc, the operator of daily deals website groupon.com, said co-founder Eric Lefkofsky was stepping down as chief executive and returning to the role of chairman, effective immediately.

United Continental Holdings Inc Chief Financial Officer John Rainey has left the fourth-biggest passenger air carrier in the United States to take up the same role at PayPal Holdings Inc, the companies said Tuesday.

Amazon plans to use drones to deliver packages in some cities. The idea is novel, but many hurdles lie ahead.

Online retailer Amazon is set to enter the British fresh food market after striking a supply deal with supermarket Morrisons.

Yahoo said its board formed an independent committee to explore strategic alternatives, alongside the pursuit of the reverse spinoff of its Internet business.

Amazon.com is quietly inviting drivers for its new "on-demand" delivery service to handle its standard packages, as the online retailer looks to speed up delivery times and tamp down its growing multi-billion dollar logistics bill.

LinkedIn might be the go-to website for job seekers and other professionals to grow their business connections, but it was not one Wall Street wanted to touch Friday as the share price was under considerable pressure.

The CFTC is reportedly ‘seriously’ exploring whether Bitcoin may fall under the U.S. regulator’s purview.

Shares of SINA Corp. climbed after the Shanghai-based online media company inked a $586 million deal with China’s largest e-commerce platform Alibaba that could enable its merchants to connect with Weibo.com's 400 million users. 

Alibaba reported an adjusted 3Q profit of $0.99 per share, topping the estimate for $0.87. Revenue for the company came in at $5.33 billion, also beating the estimate for $5.03 billion.

Amazon.com posted 2Q per-share results Thursday that missed expectations. The online retail giant weighed in with a loss of 2 cents a share on revenue of $15.7 billion. The stock is off 3% in after-hours trading.

A new report from Juniper Research forecasts a big jump in mobile commerce transactions over the next five years.

Amazon reports earnings after the bell Thursday with Wall Street forecasting revenue of $20.8 billion. Expect investors to be focused on topline growth and operating margins.

The $50 million in funding from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will be used to support Peel’s move further into the smart-home space.  

The Missouri-based Butterfly Labs allegedly deceived consumers in its attempts to sell “Bitcoin-mining computers.”

If Alibaba can continue to scale domestically at or near those margin levels, it can do so internationally as well, and it could represent the most profitable and scalable business models of any large cap tech company on Earth.