Amazon.com Inc.At a press event Wednesday in Seattle, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the company’s “Fire” phone, a 4.7-inch smartphone that is entering a sector dominated by Samsung Electronics…
Smartphones are universally available in the United States for prices that are as low as free, so people who without smartphones almost certainly do not want one or cannot afford one.
Wednesday's expected announcement of a new smartphone from Amazon.com is also reported to reveal that the online retailer has signed a deal with AT&T as the exclusive carrier for the phone.
It is a little difficult to see the logic behind a decision by independent recording labels to refuse to sign a new licensing agreement with YouTube's yet-to-be launched music subscription service.
Just over a month ago FedEx announced that it was introducing "dimesional weight pricing" for packages, and United Parcel Service said Tuesday morning that it would shift to dimensional weight pricing beginning…
Amazon.com has released numbers showing that Kindle Fire HDX customers who used the Mayday button to get customer service enjoy a response time of an average of 9.75 seconds.
Wikimedia CommonsOnline retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has faced a number of labor issues in the U.S. and Europe over the past year or so. Most have been related to pay…
Paul Ausick If you bought shares in Amazon.com a year ago, you would have made a gain of 18.5% through Friday's trading. If you waited until the first of January, you would have a…
The rumors that Amazon.com would start a streaming music service are true. It is part of the e-commerce company's Prime bundle of free shipping, instant video and the Kindle lender's library.
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Wednesday, June 11, 2014. They include Amazon, Boeing, Micron Technology, NBG, SanDisk and Marvell Technology.
ThinkstockShort sellers may have many reasons to be short a stock. One reason could be as a hedge against other positions, but often this is simply because short sellers are betting against…
RadioShack sits in a class by itself, insofar as it appears to be the next huge retailer that could fall into pieces, much as Blockbuster and Circuit City did.
After a series of high-profile data breaches, it should not be a shock that only one in five Americans have "a lot of trust" in businesses they regularly interact with to keep…
ThinkstockUnited Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) on Friday announced that current COO David Abney will replace retiring CEO Scott Davis effective September 1, when Davis retires as CEO and becomes the company’s…
Barnes & Noble's Nook could begin a resurrection after years of poundings by Amazon.com's Kindle and the Apple iPad. The deeply trouble book retailer will produce co-branded Nook models with Samsung.
