... category. Amazon pioneered the category with its Echo device in 2014 and has sold an estimated 11 million speakers. Alphabet Inc. followed with Google Home, a speaker introduced last year. Siri, Apple ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-06
... ebook and Amazon both have risen 28 percent. The three together contributed one-third of the gains of the S&P500. Does that mean the US stock rally is not broad-based enough to qualify as healthy ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
Amazon.com on Tuesday became the second of the current S&P 500 components to hit the US$1,000 price mark, beating Google parent Alphabet to the punch and underscoring a massive rally in large-cap ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-31
... xample is Amazon. The company recently marked its 20th anniversary as a publicly traded company and it’s now a global internet giant. In the past two decades, numerous competitors have been wiped out, ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-24
... ed behind Amazon and Tesla in the next generation high-tech race, e.g. artificial intelligence and electric cars. The lack of self-developed core technology has remained the Achilles heel of the compa ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-23
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos may soon become the world's richest man given the pace of gain in his company's share price. From its beginnings as an online bookstore to the current phenomenon as an e-commerc ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-10
A surge in after-hours trading for Amazon.com Inc. added US$3.3 billion to the fortune of Jeff Bezos, putting him less than US$5 billion away from becoming the world’s richest person, Bloomberg report ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-28
Amazon.com Inc. has created a team focused on driverless-vehicle technology to help navigate the retail giant’s role in the shake-up of transportation, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
... rket from Amazon.com Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports. Flipkart, which was started in 2007 by two former Amazon employees, said Monday that the new investment values the Bangalore company at US$1 ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
... osoft and Amazon took the top four positions, while Facebook was in the sixth place. As of Wednesday, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ranked fifth on the list. The others in the top 10 list w ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
The personal wealth of Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, has surpassed that of Zara’s Amancio Ortega and legendary investor Warren Buffett, and he is now the second richest person ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos said he is selling about US$1 billion worth of the internet retailer's stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying passengers on 11 ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
Amazon has clinched an agreement to acquire 100 percent of Souq.com, the Middle East's biggest online retailer, for an undisclosed amount. The deal, which will help Amazon expand its reach in a key ma ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-29
Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday won a US$1.5 billion tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over transactions involving a Luxembourg unit more than a decade ago. Judge Albert Lauber of the US Tax C ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-24
... year ago. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos moved up to number three, with the biggest gain of any person on the list, as his fortune jumped US$27.6 billion to US$72.8 billion, Agence France-Presse reports. F ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
... , such as Amazon's One-Click Buy and Visa Checkout, reduce the visibility of transactions. Uber is an excellent example of payments disappearing into a richer and more valuable commerce experience, an ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-21
