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What makes Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) such a formidable competitor, and sometimes a ruthless partner, is that just when the rest of American retailing and logistics thinks they have caught up with its strategy and execution, it has already moved miles down the road. The 800-pound gorilla of...

Today, freight brokers' and carriers' worst nightmare has come true: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has quietly taken its digital freight brokerage platform live at freight.amazon.com, and it is undercutting market prices from 26 to 33 percent. Early this morning, in a client note...

Good day, Amazon.com, Inc.(NASDAQ: AMZN) has launched a program to offer free one-day delivery to users of its popular "Prime" service, cutting its current delivery window in half and throwing down another gauntlet to retailers and logisticians across the country. During a conference...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported late Thursday a 17 percent increase in first quarter net sales to $59.7 billion, in line with analysts' estimates. Operating income rose to $4.4 billion from $1.9 billion, while net income climbed to $3.6 billion from $1.6 billion, resulting in a more...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will close fulfillment centers in four states to retrofit them for other purposes, a move that will displace thousands of employees, and could lead to their departure from Amazon, the company confirmed on April 23 in response to a report earlier that day that...

Two U.S. companies arguably dominate the growing cloud infrastructure, and they both report later this week even as they wrestle each other to be the second highest-valued stock by market capitalization. We’re talking about Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN),...

A research study conducted by Bain & Company revealed that an average company could conveniently spend 15% of its collective time in meetings. An HBR study showed that C-level executives could spend as much as 300,000 hours per year prepping for meetings, commuting to meetings, or attending...

  Good Day, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is ceasing operations in China after a decade long struggle for market dominance with the local ecommerce incumbents. Amazon.cn, Amazon's Chinese site, will shut doors on July 18 this year, after which domestic sellers on the platform...

Amazon's outsize presence in Seattle has yet to translate into a new wave of start-ups but that is expected to change as the tech giant's relationship with the city enters a new phase and the region's venture capital ecosystem matures. There are few degrees of separation between...

Robert Foster looked out over the cavernous exhibit hall at the Home Delivery World annual conference in Philadelphia yesterday and remarked that nearly all of the vendors were there to support, in one form or another, the last-mile fulfillment and delivery of heavy goods. "I'd say it'...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has begun a program in which it will pick up customer goods at warehouse locations in three cities and deliver them to their final destinations within five days, according to a newsletter from a media research firm that follows the Seattle-based e-tailer. The...

The following was originally published on TradeStation Market Insights Big technology stocks are ripping as a combination of favorable conditions sweep markets. The NYSE FANG+ Index ($NYFANG) is up more than 3 percent since Friday, putting it on pace for the biggest weekly gain since early January...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), with its voice assistants Echo and Alexa, has been gaining ground in the online grocery ordering market by making it easy for consumers to order from its grocery subsidiary Whole Foods by using voice commands. In an attempt to tackle Amazon's hegemony in the...

How can Wall Street follow up its best day in nearly two months? That’s the question Tuesday after the S&P 500 (SPX) touched a nearly six-month high Monday amid growing enthusiasm about both the U.S. and Chinese economies. If anything stands in the way of continued gains, it might be...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has made its move into Boeing 737-800 air freighter operations after agreeing to a seven-year lease of five of the narrow-bodied airplanes from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW), one of its flying partners, with the possibility of adding 15 more. In...