It was a good week for stocks. Shares ended the week up 2.5% as corporate earnings continued and as President Trump signed a spending package to avoid another government shutdown. Beyond these headlines, some interesting stories in tech stood...
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When it comes to e-commerce, Amazon.com is clearly the king of the mountain. This article isn't seeking to dispute that -- indeed, Amazon accounts for nearly 20% of my family's real-life investments. But beyond Amazon, when we look at the sea of...
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In early November, word began to leak that Amazon was serious about choosing New York to build a giant new campus. The city was eager to lure the company and its thousands of high-paying tech jobs, offering billions in tax incentives and lighting...
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Should local communities have the right to know before a big tech company moves in? Should they be able to protest before city planners offer those companies millions or even billions of dollars in incentives? Those were the questions raised when...
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The auto industry is making some serious noise about electric pickup trucks.
Last week, Amazon led an investment of $700 million in electric startup Rivian, which debuted a pickup last November at the LA Auto Show.
Meanwhile, Ford has announced...
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When you’re shopping on Amazon, you might have seen the words “Fulfilled by Amazon” next to some of the things you buy. You hopefully won’t notice anything different about the purchase experience, but you could run into problems.
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Although Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been one of the best-performing stocks ever over the long term, its share price has been in the doldrums lately. As the company is already one of the largest on Earth, investors appear worried about how much longer...
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Despite a maelstrom of events surrounding Amazon in recent weeks, its stock's reaction has been relatively muted.
In interviews with Markets Insider, analysts attributed the stock's lack of action to investors choosing to ignore what they see as...
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Amazon's profits nearly doubled in 2018, but it paid no federal income tax, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says.
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Consumer groups posted a "Dear retailer" letter on February 12 that called out Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon, and Target, shaming the companies for selling insecure smart home devices.
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While it's no secret that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the undisputed champ in the U.S. digital sales arena, things are quite a bit different south of the border. In Latin America, the company goes toe to toe with local favorite MercadoLibre...
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Amazon is on a spending spree.
Last week the online retailer invested in self-driving vehicle startup Aurora. On Friday, it announced it was the main investor in an upcoming all-electric truck and SUV company, Rivian.
Amazon leads a group investing...
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Amazon won’t pay a dime in federal taxes this year—just as it didn’t pay a dime in federal taxes in 2017.
According to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which examined its public filings, the...
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Amazon will pay property tax on its new Long Island City offices. It will pay corporate tax — not just on its profits, but on its capital base. Its employees, especially highly paid ones, will pay the city’s personal income tax. Those taxes, of...
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Via the Free Beacon, it ain’t just Republicans side-eyeing each other over Ocasio-Cortez’s grasp of Amazon’s arrangement with NYC.
This may be the most economically ignorant statement I have ver read....
Electric vehicle startup Rivian has received some big-name backing, with Amazon leading a $700m investment round into the Tesla rival. The automaker came out of stealth back in November 2018, bringing not one but two visions of its electric future...
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