Japan's 7-Eleven convenience stores chain plans to launch a super-fast delivery service in five years, stepping up competition with Amazon.com, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Monday.
The mid-week, Aug. 19 retail stock surge after two big department store chains reported outstanding results took a brief dip after the Wall Street Journal revealed Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) leaked plans to open department store-style brick-and-mortar locations in several U.S. citie
Two wildly successful companies are often discussed in the same breath, whether it's surrounding their tenured presence in the popular group of FAANG stocks or the fact that they both offer fast-growing streaming-TV services. Those stocks are none other than Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett is now in his 90s, and he isn't going to be at the helm of the massive conglomerate forever. In this Fool Live video clip, recorded on Aug. 9, 2021, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, and Industry Focus host J
The stock market can be entertaining. It can also make you money. Those two things don't always intersect. And many investors ignore profits and dividends in favor of the latest technology or compelling story from a charismatic CEO.C.H. Robinson Worldwide (NASDAQ: CHRW) and Best
Meme stocks hit the mainstream earlier in 2021 when aggressive stock and options buying led to a gamma squeeze and subsequent collapse of GameStop (NYSE: GME) stock. What sets meme stocks apart from ordinary investments is that the meme stocks tend to depend on viral buzz or comm
The stock market is taking a breather after its barn-burner performance over the last 17 months. Having effectively doubled in value since the low point it hit in March 2020, the S&P 500 has routinely set new record highs over this period.
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For Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), advertising is becoming a lucrative source of revenue. Each hosts over 100 million ready buyers with payment information on file that marketers covet access to.
Yeti Holdings (NYSE: YETI) turned in another impressive quarter recently. Year-over-year sales growth accelerated to 45%, up from 42% in the first quarter, with rising demand for the company's outdoor gear, including coolers, bags, and other accessories.
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Artificial intelligence has already become a transformative technology. AI-powered smart speakers sit in our homes, manufacturing robots with AI work in factories, and some of our cars use AI to automatically apply the brakes or steer vehicles back into their lanes.
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Coupang (NYSE: CPNG), the largest e-commerce company in South Korea, went public this March at $35 per share. It opened at $63.50 on the first day, but closed at $49.25 and has gradually lost its momentum.
Two decades ago, commerce looked much different than it does today. Jeff Bezos had already founded Amazon, but the inventory was relatively limited and e-commerce was still a novel concept. In fact, many people were quite skeptical.Twenty years later, e-commerce has gone mainstre
There's a long list of ways in which a company's reported earnings can fail to reflect the true performance of the business. These include one-time write-offs, tax adjustments, and accounting charges, just to name a few. Management teams can sometimes make decisions that juice re
The Nasdaq led gains among Wall Street indexes on Friday, driven by strength in tech stocks, although concerns over a slowing economic recovery and the possible tapering of stimulus saw the Dow and the S&P 500 set for their worst week since mid-June.
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