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In an effort to tweak logistics and order fulfillment to an almost unprecedented level, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) employees are packaging, labeling, and shipping Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) products from inside seven different P&G warehouses world-wide, according to The Wall Street Journal...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) recently set a new record for combined iPhone sales, but its success may not be attributed to the iPhone 5C. According to a CNET translation of a report by Chinese-language website C Technology, Apple has significantly reduced its daily orders of the iPhone 5C. Up until now,...

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) will sell Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5C for $50 with a contract. According to ABC News, the $49 price reduction runs through Monday, October 7. This massive discount is considerably larger than the permanent price cut offered by Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and T-Mobile (NYSE:...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) wants to provide all its customers with same day delivery of online orders, including groceries and other staples. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to go one better. What’s better than same day delivery? Delivery before you ask. It’s called “ambient commerce” and it is part...

The solar market is difficult to read because it relies on quickly changing technology while being heavily tangled in politics and other sectors of the economy, such as the volatile price of fossil fuels. In addition, the wide range of solar technologies from quantum dots to nano-crystals make...

T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS) will sell the iPhone 5C at a discount when it goes on sale this Friday, September 20. According to The Wall Street Journal, the carrier will offer the 16GB iPhone 5C for $528 through its financing plan -- $21 less than the MSRP. Last week Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) announced that...

It is amazing how one story can take over the Internet. Twitter, the world's second-largest social network, is going public. It won't happen overnight, but the mere mention of its IPO -- and confirmation that it has filed an S-1 with the SEC -- has excited the masses. While this wasn't the only...

Hoping to gain an edge over the competition, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has reduced the price of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) upcoming iPhones. Available for pre-order this Friday, the iPhone 5C officially retails for $99 with a two-year contract. Wal-Mart will sell the 16GB model for $79. The retail giant...

After a quiet start to the week on the earnings front, the big retailers begin to share their second-quarter results. First up, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Macy's (NYSE: M), Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) and Kohl's (NYSE: KSS). More big retailers are on deck the following week. This week's highlights also...

When Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) needed help in its fight against Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), a surprising ally stepped forward. This development proved to be one of many notable events that occurred this week, along with news of a price cut for the Chevy Volt price cut (which is permanent for the 2014 model)...

In the future, Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) could follow in the footsteps of another major corporation. But it's not going to be Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) or Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT). If Groupon begins to resemble any other firm, it will be Costco (NASDAQ: COST). During an interview with AllThingsD, Eric...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was expected ship as many as eight million units of the second-generation Nexus 7 in 2013. A new report by DigiTimes indicated that may not be the case. According to the Taiwan-based supply chain publication, global shipments are estimated to come in at 3.5 million units --...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Merck (NYSE: MRK) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) all have or are expected to have monster stock repurchase plans of more than $5 billion. Below, we take a quick look at how these stocks have fared and what analysts expect from them. When it comes to returning...

Unsold inventory for Microsoft's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Surface RT tablet recently led to a write-down totaling $900 million. That number turned out to be greater than the amount of revenue earned on the entire Surface product line. According to GeekWire, total Surface revenue reached $853 million on...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) are front-and-center in tech news Thursday after two Asia-Pacific media outlets report key product offering developments. Apple The days of Apple being able to hide its upcoming products until a media event are gone, despite the company’s...