Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) challenge to large retailers is not just that it does not need physical stores to do business, nor that it has one of the most visited websites…
courtesy of NokiaThis month was hardly a good one for any company, other than Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung, to release a new tablet. There is a blizzard of new products. And,…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.From the look of it, more retailers are going to be open on Thanksgiving day this year than ever before. The latest to join the throng is Best…
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom about Thanksgiving and Black Friday winners and losers is easy to agree with to some extent. Shoppers will flock to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in greater numbers year after year…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.The market was initially impressed that J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) announced a tiny tick up in October same-store sales, a mere 0.9%. The retailer’s stock moved…
courtesy of USPSThe U.S. Postal Service (USPS) expects to ship 15 billion pieces of mail and packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. USPS management claims this will be a record. The…
ThinkstockThe Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) initial public offering is almost upon us, and investors and analysts have fingers crossed for a smoother ride the Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) shaky IPO. As we…
Courtesy of BlackBerryBlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) faces its last stand as a public company, while three or four financiers and corporations prepare bids for assets that some analysts think are worth nothing.…
Courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; photo by Chris RupertThere is a growing school of thought that J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has started to walk out of the deep woods of…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Mobile games are by far the most popular apps in both number of downloads and revenue for mobile device makers. Game downloads for the iPhone and iPad from Apple…
Electronic Arts Inc.The excitement around the staggering dollars that hot new video releases bring in is soon to be joined by hot new video gaming platforms. Rumors have circulated around the devices,…
courtesy, Lenovo Group LimitedLenovo, the China-based PC company, released its new Yoga Tablet and claimed it would revolutionize the portable computer device world. That claim can be added to dozens of others…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a stock which has been on fire. Jeff Bezos has been able to do no wrong, even when the company posts a loss or has an…
Jon C. Ogg Healthcare.govSince the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the launch has been riddled with problems. Accessing the sign-up page, poor Web design, untested and inept technology, and endless attacks on…
courtesy of MicrosoftAfter Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported a solid beat on fiscal first-quarter estimates after markets closed Thursday night, the company’s shares rose 7% and managed to keep the gains through…
