Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos sold shares worth $3.1 billion in the e-commerce company in recent days, regulatory filings showed on Wednesday.
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) accomplishments in retailing and cloud computing have made it one of the most successful consumer discretionary stocks in history. At a market cap approaching $1.6 trillion, it lags behind only Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in this fi
When e-commerce behemoth Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) began offering free one-day shipping on a small universe of goods purchased by Prime customers, I expressed concerns. Chief among those worries was the sheer cost of offering quick no-cost shipping. It might cost more than it's
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad tech category that can encompass everything from semi-autonomous vehicle systems to artificially intelligent virtual assistants like Alexa. Investors who are looking for AI stocks have a wide variety to choose from these days, because many
Chinese-owned video app TikTok, facing the threat of a U.S. ban, said on Thursday it will set up its first European data centre in Ireland, extending its presence in the country where it already has a hub dealing with regional regulatory issues.
Approvals for a potential COVID-19 vaccine later this year could threaten the recent surge in speculative investment in big U.S. technology companies and pull investors back towards more traditional growth-linked cyclical stocks, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs.
Popular short-video app TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, said on Thursday it plans to open its first European data centre in Ireland with an investment of about 420 million euros ($499 million).
Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), one of the leaders in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, was able to take the initial coronavirus sequence and get a vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, ready for a phase 1 clinical trial in just 42 days.
Roku Inc reported a better-than-expected 42% jump in quarterly revenue on Wednesday, as sales of its video-streaming devices soared and more users logged on to its content platform for entertainment while sheltered at home.
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It's been just over seven months since Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) rival in India -- the Reliance Retail-owned JioMart -- started its services in India. The homegrown online grocery retailer had conducted a pilot run in limited locations in January this year before spreading its net
Walmart's (NYSE: WMT) plan to launch a subscription service called Walmart+, which will offer unlimited fast delivery, seems like a great idea. Unfortunately, it's about 15 years too late. Since 2005, Amazon.com's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime service has garnered tens of millions of s
Wayfair (NYSE: W) earnings rocketed well beyond Wall Street's forecasts as consumers turned to the online retail in droves during the coronavirus pandemic, generating "unprecedented demand" for its products.
In the late '90s when the dot-com craze was still fresh, dominance of the online shopping world was up for grabs. But there was little doubt Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) were the respected contenders to watch.
(RTTNews) - Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) said it plans to launch a new, state-of-the-art Amazon fulfillment center in Temple Terrace, Florida. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create 750 full-time jobs. The operations facility will span more th
Last Thursday, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Apple, and Amazon all delivered blowout second-quarter earnings reports, speeding past estimates. Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) was the odd tech titan out, however, sliding 3% the next day as its peers soared.
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