Amazon.com Inc

NASDAQ: AMZN
$190.83
+$2.44 (+1.3%)
Closing Price on October 29, 2024

AMZN Articles

Black Friday is under 48 hours away.  We have seen much data and much analysis out there on the topic, but there are two fairly easy conclusions here…. well, make it three.  First is that...
More than 13% of people who went to the top 500 retail websites went to Walmart.com for the week ending November 21. The number was up 77% from the previous week, which is not strange because...
MasterCard Spending Plus, which tracks retail sales, says that consumer electronics products are moving off the shelves of stores but women’s apparel is not. A Wall Street Journal analysis of the...
Reuters:   Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE:HPQ) profit was up 14% and the company will triple its share buyback. Reuters:   Banks have been asked to give their TARP repayment plans to the government....
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will not wait until the day after Thanksgiving to begin its holiday sales. It wants to take whatever early shopping business it can get from Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target...
Sony (NYSE:SNE) said it might not have its e-reader, the Daily Edition Reader, ready to ship before Christmas. It has given customers a range of dates for availability of its product that could be...
Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has sort of already fallen from grace despite all the hype behind the Palm Pre.  Throw in that Pixi too.  Discounting is trumping what may be weaker sales.  It turns out...
We are right at a week away from the highly awaited Black Friday for 2009’s holiday and Christmas season.  As you likely know, this is THE day that retailers look forward to all year and...
The management at Sony (NYSE:SNE) looks more and more like “The Gang That Couldn’t Shot Straight.” Its TV screen business is losing money. Most months, sales of the PS3 fall behind those of the...
The use of social networks to sell products and services gets more complex by the day. The latest scheme to tap into the swarms of people who congregate at Facebook is a program from MasterCard...
DVDs and e-books that sell for under $10 is one thing. Appliances that sell for $3 is another. Target (NYSE:TGT) is offering toasters, coffee makers, and slow roasters at $3 each, according to data...
You have already seen the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) buyout of 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS).  But this week before that deal was announced we covered how mergers in the technology sector have...
By Douglas A. McIntyre There is a new product on the home page of Amazon.com (NYSE:AMZN). PC users can now download a free version of Kindle software which allows Kindle users to synchronize the...
By Douglas A. McIntyre The S&P 500 index is so far having a fine year, up a bit more than 20%. But several big-company stocks in the index have doubled, or better, over that time. Among the...
The recovery is on and mergers are happening, yet the technology sector has been slow to make deals.  Despite some deals already having taken place from the technology giants and that $260 billion...