Sprint Nextel Inc. (NYSE: S) has decided to take a swipe at Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its Kindle Fire table with a deal offering a 7-inch 3G-compatible tablet for $100 with a…
An exclusive story at Geekwire reports that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has acquired TeachStreet, a five-year old startup that matches teachers and students in an online marketplace. No acquisition price was given. The…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is launching a new Sports Collectibles Store and it is claiming to offer more than 2 million unique collectibles from major sports leagues and sporting events. While this…
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…
