New research from ChangeWave shows that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have better prospect to gain market share and increase sales than at any other time in its history. Ignore earning ChangeWave says, and focus…
Douglas A. McIntyre The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning, following on a positive debt sale by Portugal and some improvement in PMI numbers from Europe. ADP employment data did not meet…
Among the major movers at around noon today are Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN, Whirlpool Corp. (NYSE: WHR), AOL Inc. (NASDAQ: AOL), JDA Software Group Inc. (NASDAQ: JDA), and Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS). Shares…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Maintained Neutral but cut target…
Bookstore owner Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) will no longer carry books published by a division of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) in the chain’s 700 or so bricks-and-mortar stores. B&N will sell…
Paul Ausick Many of the companies that have entered the online content business have stumbled. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has a service. So does Walmart (NYSE: WMT). There are already several leaders, including crippled Netflix (NASDAQ:…
The proposed merger between NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse has ended. The EC rejected the plan as anticompetitive. The announcement leaves the two operations each on its own in a world in…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook will launch an IPO to raise $5 billion. (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) says costs may drive it to a loss this quarter. (Reuters) Sony (NASDAQ: SNE) appoints Kazuo Hirai as CEO.…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares immediately dropped nearly 10% as it release earnings for its most recent quarter. Margins fell significantly While net sales increased 35% to $17.43 billion in the fourth quarter,…
Douglas A. McIntyre The UK market for streaming video is about to get more crowded. Earlier this month, Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) announced that it would offer its streaming video service in the UK and…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may be well down from its highs in 2011, but the online retail platform giant is expected to post its fourth quarter earnings after the close of trading. …
Jon C. Ogg Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has two things working against it today, or at least two things that were not among the myriad of issues impacting it before the last half-day…
Tuesday is going to be full of major earnings reports, two of which are DJIA components. These are not the only major earnings, but ten we will be watching closely are as…
Over the past two years, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have increased their workforces by more than 50%. The biggest jump came at Web.com Group…
Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is reported to be negotiating a deal with British bookstore chaine Waterstone’s under which the UK bookseller would market B&N’s Nook e-reader. B&N is trying…