Amazon is trying to get more people to shop with it even when they aren’t on Amazon.com. In hopes of growing its young Amazon Payments business, the Seattle e-commerce giant on Monday introduced its new Global Partner Program, which provides tools and support for Amazon Payments to e-commerce services companies, such as Shopify, that help …

Whenever a new iPhone goes on sale, folks tend to act like it’s a religious holiday. There are the rituals of waiting outside stores in snaking lines and getting high-fived by hordes of excited Apple retail employees after making a purchase. These customs happened predictably every year since 2007 — that is, until Thursday, when the iPhone SE launched. Technically, …

Buying more Doritos at the simple push of a button sounds like an awfully dangerous idea. Let’s hope Amazon knows what it’s doing. Last year, the e-retail giant introduced Dash buttons, which are small, Internet-connected buttons that people can click to purchase household goods like paper towels or detergent through Amazon. That announcement was just before April 1, 2015, and …

Amazon doesn’t just want to sell us televisions and toilet paper. It wants to be there for us when that TV needs to be mounted and that toilet has to be unclogged. That’s the gentle reminder the online retailer offered on the first anniversary of Amazon Home Services, which connects you to local service providers such as plumbers, painters and …

The highly anticipated Oculus Rift VR headset hit the market on Monday, offering the promise of transporting people into new worlds. But with a price tag of $600 and less than enthusiastic reviews, we wonder who the first customers of this potentially revolutionary technology could be. Also, we debate the merits of a proposal in New Jersey to fine and …

Ron Johnson is best known for developing the look of Apple’s iconic stores as its head of retail operations, then for nearly ruining J.C. Penney as its short-lived CEO. You can be excused for not knowing Johnson for his attempt at a third act, this time as the founder and CEO of e-commerce electronics retailer Enjoy, which hand-delivers and helps …

On a bright Wednesday morning on the glass-encased 38th floor of One World Trade Center, about a dozen cartoonists waited anxiously outside Bob Mankoff’s office for a chance to pitch The New Yorker’s cartoon editor. Amid the pressure, at least one person was breathing easy: Colin Stokes, Mankoff’s assistant. Not too long ago, Stokes would spend eight hours a week …

People love Apple’s iPhone, but not its hefty price tag. Looking to address that issue, Apple on Monday unveiled the iPhone SE, a smaller, cheaper smartphone that could endear the iPhone to even more folks. “This is the most powerful 4-inch phone ever,” Greg Joswiak, vice president for product marketing, told a crowd at the company’s Cupertino, California, headquarters. He …

Want lunch? Just Uber it. The ride-hailing company is expanding its efforts in food delivery, launching its standalone UberEats app in a handful of markets around the US. The app, which first came to Toronto, will go up against a bunch of similar services from DoorDash, GrubHub, Amazon and others. Customers now have a lot of choices for getting a …

There’s so much about trying to sell your old stuff online that’s no fun. Spending time listing items is a chore. Then there’s finding the right box and heading over to the local post office. And dealing with returns. eBay, one of the biggest resale marketplaces in the world, knows this is a problem and is trying to fix it. …