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Companies and Brands
Coca-Cola Named Most Powerful Brand, Followed by Hershey
How much does a brand contribute to a company's value? The answer to that question is likely to produce different answers depending on who's talking.
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Retail
Ross Stores Opens 31 Locations Months After Macy’s Closes 40
Someone is doing something right in retail, and someone is doing something wrong. Ross Stores is set to open 31 new locations.
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Retail
Best Buy Promotes Connected Home, Internet of Things
This week Best Buy has focused its weekend promotion on the connected home, also known as the Internet of Things.
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Retail
June Retail Sales Leap Past Estimates
Not only are U.S. consumers spending again after a slow start to the year, but sales were stronger across a broad range of products — with a couple of exceptions.
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Telecom & Wireless
Verizon and AT&T: Perfect Stocks as Market Runs Higher
AT&T and Verizon Communications are not flash companies in the world of high tech, but they have been perfect investments as the market has rallied.
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Retail
Wal-Mart Claims Its Savings Are Permanent
Now that the dust has settled from Amazon's second Prime Day promotion, Wal-Mart continues to take pokes at the online retailer. The giant retailer is not going to give up its pursuit…
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Retail
JC Penney Short Interest Slips to 81 Million Shares
Most recently, the short interest in J.C. Penney shares stood at nearly 82 million, which is 27% of its float.
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Retail
Will Amazon Prime Day Be Another Winner?
Amazon's Prime Day is all about rounding up new subscribers to the company's Amazon Prime $99 per year free two-day delivery service.
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Cars and Drivers
For Investors, Tesla’s Musk Remains One of America’s Greatest CEOs
Holes in Elon Musk's armor have started to appear, as the press and Wall Street have pointed out for several weeks.
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Retail
Wal-Mart Takes Aim (Again) at Amazon Prime Day
Beginning Monday, Wal-Mart is removing the $50 minimum purchase amount and offering free shipping on all online orders for five days.
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Companies and Brands
America’s Most Patriotic Brands
We might have a little trouble defining what we mean when we say that a brand is “patriotic,” but the fact is most Americans know it when they see it. Patriotic brands…
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Retail
Walmart Desperately Tries to Take Amazon Customers with Free Shipping
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) last month dropped the price of its Shipping Pass program by $1 a year, to $49, and improved the basic level of service from 3-day shipping to…
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Consumer Electronics
Amazon Drops 4K Ultra HD TV Below $2,000
Is it any wonder that by some estimates Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has move ahead of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) to become the largest consumer electronics dealer in America? Aside from its huge…
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Retail
Amazon’s $43.34 Drone
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to make home delivery via drone put it at the vanguard of retail distribution, once again. It has also become what may be the largest source of drones…
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Media
Google Edges Facebook as America’s Most Visited Site
Google sites were the most visited in May, based on desktop and mobile results together, according to research firm comScore.