Amazon

In April, Google (GOOGL) unveiled Cloud for Retail, a package of cloud computing solutions specifically designed for retailers.

Walmart’s online grocery services are attracting more customers than Amazon. WMT stock has risen before the company’s Q2 earnings release tomorrow.

Amazon’s (AMZN) has strengthened its renewable energy position recently via investments in new wind and solar power projects.

Although the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have recovered by 1.05% and 1.55% today, Beyond Meat stock (BYND) was down 9.6% this morning.

On Tuesday, in-person US-China trade talks resumed in Shanghai. The two sides have been talking on the phone since the truce last month.

This morning, CEO Elon Musk, in a post on Tesla’s official blog, announced that Tesla is laying off 7% of its full-time employees.

As of June 21, Kroger (KR) was trading at a 12-month forward PE ratio of 9.9x. The company’s forward valuation multiple has fallen 5.4% since its first-quarter results on June 20.

Netflix (NFLX) was one of the first players in the online streaming space. Netflix launched its streaming platform back in 2007 and now has over 150 million subscribers worldwide.

In pushing for larger product bundles, Amazon is trying to boost its sales volume and lower the costs of delivering everyday consumables.

More than $180 billion is up for grabs in the global cloud computing market this year, and Alibaba is one of the major contenders for this opportunity.

According to Amazon, Fire TV is the most popular streaming device in the United States, Japan, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

eBay is not the first to go offline to connect with small businesses in an attempt to bridge the gap between online and offline retail.

Amazon (AMZN) is set to follow in the footsteps of its rival Walmart (WMT) in China by shutting down its domestic Chinese shopping platforms.

Cloud-computing issues dominated talks at Microsoft’s (MSFT) 2019 Build software developer conference this week.

Frontier Communications (FTR) has been making efforts to retain its customers and maintain a lower churn rate in a highly competitive telecommunications sector.

e-Commerce giant Amazon (AMZN) will retreat from its domestic marketplace business in China as of July 18.

Yandex’s first-quarter earnings results will be the company’s first full-quarter financial results since it opened its cloud platform to everyone.

Walt Disney (DIS) wants its flagship streaming video service, Disney Plus, to be profitable in five years.

Disney has suspended its share repurchase program temporarily due to its heavy debt load.

Though Spotify is a leader in the global music streaming market with a presence in over 75 countries, the company competes with tech heavyweights.

Amazon (AMZN) has been struggling due to slow revenue growth and higher investments in 2019 in hiring and capital spending.

Alibaba (BABA) is preparing to inject $50 million in fresh funding in BigBasket, India’s top online grocery retailer.

Kenya is one of the African countries where Alibaba and Amazon are battling for e-commerce market share.

According to a joint report by Google and Temasek, the digital economy in Southeast Asia is set for booming growth in the next few years.

Yesterday, Walt Disney (DIS) gained control over most of 21st Century Fox’s (or 21CF’s) media and entertainment assets, including its film production and TV businesses, Hulu, and Star India.

Software giant Oracle (ORCL) topped revenue estimates of nearly $9.62 billion by 0.3% in the third quarter of fiscal 2019.

In the past year, we’ve seen PayPal make a series of strategic acquisitions to sharpen its competitive edge amid escalating competition.

Square (SQ) has three priority areas to focus on in 2019 as it seeks to continue driving revenue growth.

Music streaming giant Spotify (SPOT) continues to grow its global subscriber base.

Video streaming giant Netflix (NFLX) has been spending billions of dollars on original content in the last few years.

Despite the rivalry between the two companies, Samsung is still one of the prominent component suppliers to Apple.

Amazon has reportedly acquired a retail space in central London to bring its Amazon Go store to the United Kingdom.

The global cloud infrastructure space has continued to grow strongly.

Microsoft (MSFT) recently announced that it had bought education data management platform DataSense from BrightBytes.

While some of Amazon’s business segments are seeing slowing growth, one segment is growing relentlessly: Amazon Web Services.

Though Amazon’s (AMZN) revenue growth is slowing down, it’s continuing to post record earnings.

Today, US President Donald Trump tweeted, “Best January for the DOW in over 30 years.”

Amazon (AMZN) recently began using robots to deliver packages to customers in parts of Seattle on an experimental basis.

In the third quarter of 2018, Square spent 15.4% of its revenue on product development and 13.2% on sales and marketing activities.

In its quest to become the one-stop shop for financial solutions, Square has made investing in product development programs one of its top priorities.

According to a report by eMarketer, Snap’s (SNAP) Snapchat is the top social media app for American teens.

eBay (EBAY) posted revenues of $2.65 billion in the third quarter, in line with the consensus estimate.

In the fourth quarter, Netflix’s global paid subscriber base reached 139.3 million.

Early this morning, before the market opened, Musk revealed that TSLA is reducing its full-time workforce by 7%.

At 6:46 AM EST on January 18, Tesla (TSLA) shares fell 8.4% in the pre-market session from the previous day’s closing.

Home Depot’s integrated retail strategy To counter Amazon (AMZN), Home Depot (HD) has been focusing on its integrated retail strategy, One Home Depot. The strategy integrates its offline and online channels to enhance customers’ experience, which could be hard for Amazon to replicate. In last year’s third quarter, the company’s online sales grew 28%, and […]

Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) held its IPO in December, pricing shares at $13 and raising $1.1 billion.

Jeff Bezos invested about $15 million in Twitter (TWTR) just over a decade ago.

Amazon (AMZN) became the world’s most valuable public company on January 7.

The Walt Disney Company is among those large American companies that have launched back-to-school programs for their employees.