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Media
The Attraction of YouTube’s Multichannel Networks
When Disney agreed in March to pay up to $950 million for Maker Studio, the acquisition was looked at as a testament to the value of a multichannel network -- an MCN…
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Retail
Walmart Clears Out Summer Inventory
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has started to clear our summer inventory using e-commerce to augment what it is doing in its stores. By Labor Day, many items…
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Media
Disney Heats Up at Walmart After Being Shut Out at Amazon
The Walt Disney Co.About a week ago Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) removed the pre-ordering option for several DVD releases of popular movies from Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS). The dispute between the…
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Media
Cable Company Broadband Subscribers Now Outnumber Pay TV Subscribers
ThinkstockIt had to happen sometime, but the cable guys probably didn’t expect it to happen so soon. The top U.S. cable companies now claim 49.915 million broadband subscribers compared with 49.910 million…
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Retail
J.C. Penney’s Weak Online Sales
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Barely mentioned in the J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) earnings report was the tiny amount of its online sales for the quarter. Same-store sales may have improved, but the…
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Technology
Amazon Going Brick-and-Mortar?
Amazon.com Inc.Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the availability of a new payment system the company calls Amazon Local Register that sets the company into competition with many other providers of similar credit-…
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: FuelCell, JDSU, King, SunEdison, Google, Facebook and More
Jon OggStocks were well up on Wednesday morning. While volatility has returned to the stock market, it seems as though investors are looking to accumulate stocks that have sold off and that…
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Special Report
America’s Fastest-Growing Retailers
After the recession, retailers are growing once again and, increasingly, moving online. In the first quarter of 2014, retail sales were 2.4% higher than the same time the year before, largely helped…
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Media
Amazon Now Playing Hardball with Disney?
The Walt Disney Co.Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has apparently decided that when the going gets tough, the company will play tougher. In what appears to be the company’s latest distribution dispute, Amazon…
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Retail
J.C. Penney Still Shunned By Wall St.
Wikimedia CommonsThings have been quiet at J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), at least as far as Wall St. is concerned. However, a look at its stock prices shows that investors continue to shun…
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Consumer Electronics
Samsung Nook for Barnes & Noble Due August 20th
Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Samsung Electronics have announced an event for August 20th in New York at which the companies are expected to introduce a Samsung-built…
2:28pm ET
Technology
Amazon, Google Squaring Off in Same-Day Delivery Battle
Google Inc.On Wednesday Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said it was expanding its same-day delivery service to 6 new metropolitan areas bringing to 10 the number of cities where Amazon Prime members can…
6:31am ET
Retail
Amazon Leads Retailer Growth With 852% Rise
If the case has not been proven that e-commerce has crushed the growth of traditional retail, a new study shows that the Amazon.com posted 852% growth between 2005 and 2013 to $44…
12:05pm ET
Retail
Could Target Be the Next Sears?
When Target welcomes its new CEO, Brian Cornell, to the corner office next week, he will find a pile of problems that need solving. The biggest may be how to get customers…
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Retail
Target Hires New CEO From Pepsi — Why Did He Leave?
Target, desperate due to falling sales and a data breach that exposed personal information from tens of millions customers, hired a PepsiCo executive to be its new CEO.