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Technology
Why Amazon Is Down 20% This Year
If you bought shares in Amazon.com a year ago, you would have made a gain of 18.5% through Friday's trading. If you waited until the first of January, you would have a…
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Apps & Software
Amazon Launches Streaming Music Service
The rumors that Amazon.com would start a streaming music service are true. It is part of the e-commerce company's Prime bundle of free shipping, instant video and the Kindle lender's library.
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amazon, Boeing, Micron, NBG, SanDisk, Marvell and More
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Wednesday, June 11, 2014. They include Amazon, Boeing, Micron Technology, NBG, SanDisk and Marvell Technology.
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Technology
Short Sellers Smarten Up Against Technology Titans
ThinkstockShort sellers may have many reasons to be short a stock. One reason could be as a hedge against other positions, but often this is simply because short sellers are betting against…
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Retail
Can Best Buy Thrive After RadioShack Collapse?
RadioShack sits in a class by itself, insofar as it appears to be the next huge retailer that could fall into pieces, much as Blockbuster and Circuit City did.
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Apps & Software
Few Americans Trust Online Data Safety
After a series of high-profile data breaches, it should not be a shock that only one in five Americans have "a lot of trust" in businesses they regularly interact with to keep…
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Services
UPS Names New CEO
ThinkstockUnited Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) on Friday announced that current COO David Abney will replace retiring CEO Scott Davis effective September 1, when Davis retires as CEO and becomes the company’s…
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Retail
Barnes & Noble to Build Nook With Samsung
Barnes & Noble's Nook could begin a resurrection after years of poundings by Amazon.com's Kindle and the Apple iPad. The deeply trouble book retailer will produce co-branded Nook models with Samsung.
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Consumer Electronics
Will an Amazon Smartphone Destroy BlackBerry and Windows Phones?
Amazon.com is supposed to be releasing a new smartphone on June 18, 2014. The question is how Amazon can compete in the space, and who it is going after.
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Consumer Electronics
Amazon Phone’s Big Advantage? Customers
Amazon.com could release a new smartphone in the next few days that has been described as the first with a 3D screen, a Samsung Galaxy killer and its answer to the iPhone…
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Technology
After Huge IPO, Will Alibaba Change the Face of Internet Commerce?
Courtesy Alibaba GroupAs the highest profile initial public offering (IPO) this year, and in fact in many years, everybody from the biggest hedge funds and mutual funds, down to retail investors, are…
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Jobs
Could Amazon German Strikes Spread to U.S.?
The strikes by Amazon.com warehouse workers in Germany are no longer just a pesky problem. The Verdi labor union wants to move to collective bargaining to improve the lot of almost 10,000…
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Retail
Why J.C. Penney Is Down 50% in the Past Year
Following an initial rush of enthusiasm after the company reported fourth-quarter results in late February, shares of J.C. Penney have traded in a band between about $7.25 and $9.75.
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Technology
Microsoft Chasing More Sales in the Cloud With Salesforce.com
The announcement of a strategic partnership between Microsoft and Salesforce.com after markets closed on Thursday boosted the latter's shares in after-hours trading, but investor enthusiasm had waned by Friday morning.
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Jobs
Online Shopping Creates Growing Number of Jobs
ThinkstockA Census Bureau report released Thursday puts more precise numbers than ever before on the e-retail revolution. According to the Bureau’s newly published “County Business Patterns: 2012” report, it’s not just Amazon…
