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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is flying into Lakeland, Florida in a big way. The e-tailing giant will spend more than $100 million to build a 285,000-square foot air cargo facility at Lakeland Linder International Airport, under a 20-year deal unanimously approved on May 20 by the Lakeland City...

The latest round of funding for U.K. food delivery start-up Deliveroo is being helmed by a familiar face – Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). The Seattle-based e-tailer is leading a $575 million "Series G' round that includes mutual fund giants Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, as well as Greenoaks...

FAANG names are a key part of the Nasdaq. The Equal Weight version of Nasdaq can lead. AMZN, AAPL and other unequal names will have a disproportionate drag on this down turn. We generally chart the regular NASDAQ -- the NDX, QQQ, and the futures -- but when you consider that a mere five momentum...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) broke ground on May 14 at its $1.5 billion air hub at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. The airport, located in Hebron, Kentucky, is expected to open in 2021. The 3 million square-foot building will have capacity for 100 freighters and will be built...

Good day, The much-hyped Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) air hub in northern Kentucky is finally moving forward following a formal groundbreaking at the site at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Kentucky on May 14, 2019. The hub will add more than 2,000 jobs to...

The battle for retailing delivery supremacy has been joined. Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) said Tuesday it has begun offering free next-day delivery of online orders of $35 or more without requiring that customers pay a membership fee. The service has launched in Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada,...

Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) need for personnel to staff its package delivery network is so acute that it is looking inside its four walls to recruit them. The Seattle-based e-taling giant announced on May 13 that it will pay each qualified employee up to $10,000 in start-up costs to...

FreightWaves is providing a forum – Market Voices – for a number of market experts. Cathy Morrow Roberson is a market analyst with a research and economics background. Roberson began her career as a librarian; she was then an analyst at an e-commerce start-up; and was an analyst at UPS...

Too much to talk about with too little time. Several key industry topics were bantered about by some of the best thought leaders in the industry on the final day of Transparency19. In a panel discussion, "The Bull, the Bear and the Other Guy," moderated by FreightWaves President George...

Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) explosive growth and e-commerce domination, which has contributed to its expansive transportation and logistics footprint around the globe, is the subject of a second book by Brad Stone. Stone, the author of the best-selling book The Everything Store: Jeff...

In 2013, when Brad Stone set out to write about the history of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), it was hardly the company we know (and rely on) today. A December 2013 60 Minutes interview revealed that Amazon had 225 million customers worldwide. Just five years later, in December 2018, Amazon...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will now be delivering to the trunks of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) automobiles. Ford said yesterday that owners of eligible vehicles can now receive packages ordered through Amazon's "Prime" service delivered to their cars' locations. The so-called...

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRW) is not afraid of Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQL AMZN) entrance into freight brokerage and welcomes the competition, incoming chief executive officer Bob Biesterfeld told Wall Street analysts on the company's earnings call this morning. After...

Good day, Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) push into one-day delivery as the standard for its "Prime" subscribers will turn into a war of attrition with retailers. The mission appears to be to pull share from existing retailers whose customers will wonder why they, too, can't...

This weekend's Barron's cover story offers the results of the latest Barron's Big Money poll. Other featured articles focus on what to expect from Warren Buffett and what to watch for in proxy season. Also, the prospects for an electric car titan and consumer staples makers. "...