MicrosoftIt didn’t take very long for Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to erase the $100 price premium it charged for the new Xbox One compared with Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4. All…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.With the launch last week of a gas station/convenience store, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) now offers customers six different store formats to choose from, ranging from the Supercenters of…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockIt’s not really Black Friday, but Black Friday Lite. Some of the country’s biggest retailers have chosen this weekend, just a day after the first day of Spring, to promote “Black Friday-like”…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Walmart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) must believe that it actually is the dominant force in everyday low prices. It means to prove that point by offering customers the…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.A new business just opened its doors in Bentonville, Ark., the hometown of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT). The business is called “Walmart To Go” and for now…
GameStop shares were getting bruised on Tuesday on news that Walmart is directly targeting the GameStop model with a new push with its trade-in service and preowned game offerings. Can GameStop survive…
ThinkstockMedian income for Americans was $34,750 in 2012. At some companies, however, the median is more than five times the national number. Based on figures provided by Glassdoor, 24/7 Wall St. examined…
As the age of video games ages, so do the number of discarded and unused video games, probably. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, means to take advantage of that via a video…
Roth Capital downgraded the Plug Power stock from Buy to Neutral Friday morning, but the impact on the share price has been modest. The share price of the fuel cell maker more…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) rarely makes the news for anything positive on its labor relations. The company employs over 2 million people, and it has become routine…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockThe outlook for a long-sought federal fix of state sales taxation of online retailers looks dim after comments Wednesday by Robert Goodlatte, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, suggested…
Plug Power reported mixed fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning. The company said it was on track to break even by the third quarter of this year.
Alternative energy company FuelCell Energy began trading Monday morning at a 13% premium to Friday's closing price, which was 18% higher than Thursday's close. Friday's bump came from news of a $2.8…
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…
Safeway's agreement to sell out to Cerberus Capital Management for as much as $40 a share says something about Kroger, the archrival of both Safeway and Cerberus's supermarket business Albertson's.
