Go past the modern, brightly lit lobby of a Midtown Manhattan office building and take the elevator to the fifth floor. There you’ll find Amazon’s secret weapon for drawing in last-minute holiday shoppers. It’s not a fancy delivery drone or slick new electronic device. It’s a 50,000-square-foot warehouse filled with tens of thousands of consumer …

The hoverboard controversy continues to heat up. Amazon’s UK division has asked some customers to throw out their hoverboards, the self-balancing scooters that have clambered onto holiday wish lists this season, due to safety problems with the devices. “Please dispose of this product in a [recycling center] as soon as possible,” read a company email sent to customers, which Amazon …

Hey cool, I just found some awesome Festivus-themed socks. I’m going to buy them right now! All I have to do is use my smartphone’s tiny keyboard to oh-so-carefully tap in my name, email, password…then my address…then my credit card number…then…sheesh, forget it. I’ll just play Candy Crush. A scene like that may seem meaningless — hardly anyone cares I …

Along with the typical fare of drab rest stops and wireless towers dressed up like pine trees, expect to spot a new sight along the highway soon: Amazon tractor trailers. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said Friday that it will start rolling out thousands of Amazon-branded trailers across the US for the first time to help ship the company’s inventory. Amazon …

NEW YORK — Get immersed in a Wagner opera while waiting in a supermarket line or catch a Carnegie Hall orchestral performance on the train. For most of us, it’s hard to find the time and money for a trip to the ballet. So, the Google Cultural Institute and a group of over 60 performing arts institutions around the world …

If you held off until Cyber Monday to find the best holiday deals, you probably waited too long. The online shopping event this year reached $3 billion in sales, up 12 percent from last year, software giant Adobe reported late Monday, making it the largest online sales day in the US ever. The question is: Will this be the last …

Poshmark is trying on brand-new threads. The e-commerce startup, whose app lets people sell used clothing for women, said Wednesday it has teamed up with more than a dozen apparel and handbag makers to expand from resale to retail. The new partnerships with brands, including Style Mafia and Snob Essentials, will allow Poshmark’s most successful sellers to purchase new items …

Enlarge ImageAmazon Destinations sunsets. Amazon Amazon quietly closed its Amazon Destinations site Tuesday, offering little explanation for the move just six months after the service launched. “We have learned a lot and have decided to discontinue Amazon Destinations,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. Amazon Destinations was introduced in April as a way for people to plan and reserve …

Mobile-payments company Square on Wednesday revealed its plans to go public, putting in motion what should be one of the biggest and most-anticipated tech initial public offerings of the year. The 6-year-old maker of credit-card reading devices was expected to make such a move for months. Reports came out over the summer that the San Francisco-based company filed confidential paperwork …

Who wants pizza? Uber Uber is going deeper into speedy deliveries, hoping to get you flowers, burritos and paper towels nearly as quickly as it can get you a ride. The San Francisco-based driver-hailing service said Wednesday it’s expanded its UberRush courier service to San Francisco and Chicago, after testing out the program in New York City for the past …