(RTTNews) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) said Thursday that it plans to open its first fulfillment center in Forney, Texas in 2021. The new site will create more than 500 new full-time jobs with comprehensive benefits starting on day one.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is looking to allow podcasters to host their own shows on Amazon Music and Audible, its audio entertainment, information, and programming service. The service will reportedly be available for both free and premium listeners.
There are several benefits to investing in large-cap stocks -- that is, companies with a market cap of more than $10 billion. These businesses tend to be reputable and well-established within their respective industries, which makes buying shares a bit less risky than with small
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the world's leading online retailer, and it's not even close. Jeff Bezos has built a dominant marketplace, catapulting the stock into the stratosphere as one of the market's most valuable companies.
One might look at the performance of the financial sector this year, down about 18% as of Wednesday's close, and just write off the whole sector until better days. But that would be a mistake for two reasons.
One of the most obvious side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the acceleration of trends that support consumers while they're making the most of their time at home. E-commerce, gaming, and streaming music and video have all emerged as the clear winners of the stay-at-ho
What happened
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) jumped 7.5% on Wednesday, as a broad rise in tech stocks helped drive the Nasdaq Composite index sharply higher.
It's been a while since e-commerce and cloud-computing giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) split its stock. We're talking about the late 1990s when Amazon was a relatively small company with huge dreams.
The S&P 500 traded above its record closing high on Wednesday in a broad rally led by tech stocks. In afternoon trading, the benchmark index was above the record high close of 3,386.15 from Feb. 19, before the onset of the coronavirus crisis in the United States that caused one of Wall Street's most dramatic crashes in history.
Wall Street's main indexes jumped on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 crawling towards a record high in a broad rally led by tech stocks, with investors shrugging off a stalemate over the new coronavirus relief bill.
Wall Street's main indexes jumped on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 crawling towards a record high in a broad rally led by tech stocks, although some investors were cautious following a stalemate over the new coronavirus relief bill.
Most of us are looking forward to retirement, though it's also likely that we're at least a little worried about our income in retirement. We can probably count on some Social Security, but it was never designed to replace all our income.
Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said the Surface Duo, its dual-screen smartphone powered by Alphabet Inc's Android operating system, will start at a price of $1,399 and arrive in stores beginning Sept. 10.
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating some trends that existed before the start of the outbreak, including the pivot away from brick-and-mortar sales activity to e-commerce. That behavior change has put Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) in an opportune position to help the many companies who
Electric commercial truck maker Nikola Corp of Phoenix, Arizona, tried unsuccessfully to raise $1 billion in the private markets and only turned to a merger with a so-called blank-check company to go public as a way to raise the needed funds, its chief financial officer said.
U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and Dow snapping a seven-day streak of gains and falling late in the session on growing uncertainty about breaking a stalemate in Washington over a fiscal stimulus deal.