Amazon.com has marked down the price on its Fire tablets, which many analysts believe have never sold well. The deals target subscribers to Amazon's Prime service.
Douglas A. McIntyre The strength of retail sales in the fourth quarter of each year is a benchmark for how well the U.S. consumer economy is doing. Over the past ten years, the number of…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Wednesday include Amazon.com, Applied Materials, Avon Products, CarMax, Micron Technology, Square and Whiting Petroleum.
Bain has agreed to buy Toshiba's chip business, median household income rose for the second year in a row, Apple launched its iPhone X, and other important headlines.
“It”, based on a Steven King novel, blistered the box office with a first-weekend take of $117 million. U.S. box office revenue has been extremely weak for weeks. According to Box Office…
24/7 Wall St. has put together a look at a few widely influential analyst calls over this past week on some of the biggest names in the tech sector.
There is legal insider trading, where corporate insiders have windows of time buy or sell shares in their companies. And then there is illegal insider trading, whereby privileged information is used for…
Jon C. Ogg Grocery stores, among other industries, have been under attack by the unending onslaught of Amazon, especially after the Whole Foods acquisition.
Boutique firm MKM Partners has projected that shares of Amazon will more than triple by the middle of the next decade.
Jon C. Ogg Amazon has opened a request for proposals from North American metro areas to compete for a second company headquarters location where Amazon could add 50,000 jobs to the local economy.
Paul Ausick Toys "R" Us may seek Chapter 11 protection. Traditionally, retailers that move into Chapter 11 shutter stores and fire workers.
About a year and a half ago, Amazon kicked out a program it calls its Treasure Truck. The program is now available in 11 U.S. cities and we'd never heard of it.…
Paul Ausick The IPO market continues to be dormant next week. The big news from last week is that Roku, a maker of streaming video devices, has filed for a $100 million IPO.
For some time, robotics experts have forecast that robots will replace many of the jobs within the retail industry. This is particularly true for checkout functions and packaging.
Douglas A. McIntyre Disney will cut staff at its ABC television operation, Uber's new CEO predicts that company will go public sometime in the next three years, and other important headlines.
