After Friday's market close, retailer Bed Bath & Beyond said miserable winter weather had forced the company to trim its guidance for fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. The statement said nothing about the effect…
Automobile classified ad site Cars.com is reported to be out seeking a buyer at an asking price of around $3 billion. The site is owned by Classified Ventures, a consortium of newspaper…
Wikimedia CommonsPoor results for the holiday quarter were supposed to injure Wall Street’s sentiment on Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). On the contrary, it has continued to rise, leaving observers to ask whether…
ThinkstockAlong with everything else that has been said about the changes to the SAT college admissions test, now the College Board, which owns the test, has said that it will provide a…
Paul Ausick In a swipe at Amazon.com and Target, Walmart last October quietly launched a subscription service to members of its Sam's Club stores that allows those members to receive free shipping on about…
Activist investor Carl Icahn has "not yet begun to fight" according to his latest open letter to the shareholders of eBay. His impetus was an investor survey that showed 55% of respondents…
In a new report, the telecom service analysts at Cowen highlighted three stocks likely to benefit in the huge broadband and fiber infrastructure build-out that is underway.
Research firm J.D. Power evaluated 600 brands across nine industries and came up with a list of 50 2014 Customer Champions. The list includes seven health care companies, two airlines and four…
Consumer electronics companies sold 195 million tablets last year. Unfortunately for Apple, which virtually invented the category, the share its iOS had of the global market dropped. Apple is desperate for the…
ThinkstockVolvo may nearly be out of business, but it has come up with one of the most unique features available from the world’s car companies. It can deliver food to its vehicles.…
The World Mobile Congress currently going on in Barcelona will generate some surprises, but Nokia's announcement of a cheap, Android-based smartphone is not one of them. The phone has been rumored to…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Maybe it’s because Saturday is launch day in Japan for the PlayStation 4 from Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), but the company’s hot-selling new game console is practically non-existent on…
Wikimedia CommonsOnline retailer Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has merged its Amazon Prime and Lovefilm instant video services in the U.K and Germany and prices will go up beginning next week. Amazon’s CFO…
In a stock move that is starting to defy gravity, social media giant Facebook has eclipsed the market value of two longtime stalwart members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average: AT&T and…
Research firm Brand Keys released on Wednesday its 2014 customer loyalty index for online service brands. The firm tracks 70 brands in seven categories. See how top brands like Amazon, Google and…
