The American Booksellers Association wants to know the motivation of Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) for selling popular books online for under $10. The industry group has asked The Justice Department…
Reuters: Japan Airlines faces $8.8 billion in excess debt if liquidated. Reuters: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) beat Wall St. estimates. Reuters: GM’s CEO will get a pay raise. Reuters: Nokia (NYSE:NOK) sued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)…
Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) rose nearly 10% after hours to $101.70, well above the stock’s 52-week high. Revenue increased 28% to $5.45 billion in the third quarter, compared with $4.26 billion in same…
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has been having its analyst meeting this week and we now have a release from the company showing its growth plan next year. This also updates the…
Douglas A. McIntyre China’s GDP rose 8.9% amid talk that the increase was caused by the nation’s $585 billion stimulus package and not a significant improvement in its huge manufacturing and export engine. The news…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: China’s GDP rose 8.9% and the government said it would stick with its liberal monetary policies. Reuters: Larry Summers said the US recovery is on track. Reuters: More Americans will delay…
There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7…
Price cuts work. In September, Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) PS3 outsold the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii for the first time in recent memory. Industry research firm NPD said that the video…
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) beat earnings forecasts. Reuters: The IRS is probing some homebuyers’ tax credit gains. Reuters: The US is ready to bring more insider trading cases. Reuters: More US companies are…
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) has cut prices on products from food to book downloads to toys. It offers $4 prescriptions at its in-store pharmacies. Does the world’s largest retailer make any money on these…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: US corporations are concerned about the weakness of the dollar. Reuters: Bernanke says that global imbalances in trade and cash flows must be addressed. Reuters: Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is attacking new markets…
The competition in the e-reader and e-book industries gets more brutal by the day. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is the e-reader leader because of the success of its Kindle. Other companies including Sony (NYSE:SNE)…
Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) posted strong results. Reuters: Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) Lewis will skip 2009 pay. Reuters: Japan Airlines says bankruptcy is an option to solving its problems. Reuters: …
Reuters: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is having trouble justifying its huge bonuses. Reuters: Bruce Wasserstein, M&A giant and head of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ), died. Reuters: Congress will probe compensation at AIG (NYSE:AIG). Reuters: US…
It just got a little harder to be in the health and beauty retail business either in stores or online. Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) has started to sell products from a e-commerce section that…
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