The American online grocery delivery service Instacart is not yet publicly listed, but the company has clearly announced an IPO on its horizon. Rumor has it that Instacart may snub a traditional IPO for a direct listing. How it goes public will have major implications on initial
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose on Tuesday as investors flocked to the perceived safety of technology-related stocks as the U.S. pause in the rollout of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine sparked fears of a delay in a broader economic rebound.
The S&P 500 was set for a subdued open on Tuesday as data showed consumer prices increased by the most in more than 8-1/2 years in March, while Johnson & Johnson slipped as federal health agencies recommended pausing the use of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently announced plans to roll out its Amazon Care product to all of its employees. Considering Amazon's history, the next obvious step would be to try and make money from the product by rolling it out to customers. In this video from Motley Fool Live,
Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) dMY Technology Group III (NYSE: DMYI) recently announced that it will be merging with quantum computing start-up IonQ. A number of quantum computing deals and developments have been revealed over the last couple of years that indicate th
German e-commerce company Berlin Brands Group (BBG) said on Tuesday it had raised $240 million in debt financing to support the expansion of its direct-to-consumer brand portfolio, which it markets via Amazon and other channels.
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican who has been a staunch critic of Big Tech, said on Monday he has introduced a bill that would ban all mergers and acquisitions by any company with a market value greater $100 billion, a category that includes the five biggest U.S. tech companies.
WASHINGTON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Alibaba’s, $2.8 billion fine from the Chinese antitrust watchdog ought to worry U.S. rival Amazon.com. Beijing’s case against Jack Ma’s e-commerce giant shows it’s possible to define t
GameStop Corp is looking for a new chief executive to replace George Sherman as it pivots from being a brick-and-mortar video game retailer to an e-commerce firm, three people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Nvidia Corp on Monday said it plans to make a server processor chip based on technology from the United Kingdom's Arm Ltd, putting it in the most direct competition yet with rival Intel Corp and adding a layer of complexity to the antitrust review of Nvidia's $40 billion deal to buy Arm.
As great as an investment Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been for long-term growth investors it's no match lately against the meteoric stock rise of GameStop (NYSE: GME). The video game retailer saw its stock more than triple last year, and this year it catapulted as a "meme stock." E
Over the past two months, rising bond yields have sparked a rotation away from pricier growth stocks and toward value stocks. Investors have also started to shun the stay-at-home stocks that generated such explosive gains during the first year of the pandemic in favor of reopenin
It's certainly an exciting time for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and other cryptocurrencies. In a recent Fool Live interview, recorded on March 18, Motley Fool board of directors member Randi Zuckerberg sat down for a chat with CoinShares' chief strategy officer Meltem Demirors to talk
Intel Corp’s Mobileye has teamed with four-year-old Silicon Valley startup Udelv in an effort to put automated electric delivery vehicles into service in the United States by 2023, the companies said on Monday.
Are cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) fads or bubbles? Or are they here to stay? In this Fool Live interview, recorded on March 18, The Motley Fool's chief investment officer Andy Cross sits down for a chat with author and former Fool Jim Surowiecki about Bitcoin (CR
Canada's Telesat is racing to launch a low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to provide high-speed global broadband from space, pitting the satellite communications firm founded in 1969 against two trailblazing billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Like most Super Bowls, a comparison of two different stocks can yield a clear, odds-on favorite. Sometimes, though, such a match-up isn't easy to handicap with just a superficial look.That's certainly the case in pitting Costco (NASDAQ: COST) against Walmart (NYSE: WMT). Investor
The e-commerce behemoth is clearly a more exciting company than the grocery store chain. On a risk-adjusted basis, however, both Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) have proven heroic over the course of the past year. The latter's same-store grocery sales improved 14% in
Canada's Telesat is racing to launch a low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to provide high-speed global broadband from space, pitting the satellite communications firm founded in 1969 against two trailblazing billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
The stock market has been a bit unpredictable since the beginning of this year. Some tech stocks that were flying high in 2020 have been pushed down since January, but that doesn't mean that there aren't great long-term bets in the tech sector. We asked a few Motley Fool contribu