Executive Summary

• This week, we held our third monthly Disruptor’s Breakfast, meeting four companies in the e-commerce space and one in education
• Amazon is exploring hiring regular people to make deliveries and recruiting brick-mortar-stores to store packages
• Hudson’s Bay announced plans to the parent company of Germany’s biggest department store chain, Kaufhof, for €2.83 billion
• Nearly half of those surveyed in the Asia-Pacific region used a smartphone to make a purchase in the past three months of 2014