Amazon to Start Offering In-Car Deliveries

Codenamed “Vesta,” after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family, the project is overseen by Gregg Zehr, who runs Amazon’s Lab126 hardware research and development division based in Sunnyvale, California. Lab126 is responsible for Amazon devices such as the Echo speakers, Fire TV …

Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) investors are hoping the recent news of 100 million Prime subscribers foreshadows some more big numbers when the … “E-commerce growth for the next two decades will hinge on harder-to-handle non-homogeneous product verticals, and Amazon is one of the best …

PG -0.68% and Kimberly-Clark Corp. KMB 1.91% have sent consumer-goods shares tumbling in recent days—a sign many investors remain skeptical of the companies’ ability to cope with rising costs, as well as to fend off online competitors like Amazon.com Inc. The sector’s underperformance comes as a …

More than 100 million people globally are now paying for Amazon Prime, a sign of how Amazon.com Inc. has used the service to evolve from an online marketplace that struggled with profitability into an e-commerce powerhouse. Amazon, which has never disclosed the number of Prime members before, …

Amazon began as a more-traditional retailer, owning inventory and distribution, while Alibaba was relatively asset-light, operating akin to a marketplace such as eBay (EBAY). Now, Amazon and Alibaba have seen their businesses evolve into forms much closer to each other, says Lippert. Amazon’s …

There’s nothing like a couple of venture capitalists sitting around talking. You can learn a lot about the companies that are shaping our lives, and the trends that will rock our world, simply by listening in. The audience at yesterday’s Sohn Investment Conference in New York got that opportunity when …

Boohoo.com Plc is on a tear after the online fashion merchant’s sales almost doubled last year. Revenue for the full year climbed 97 percent, the company said in a statement Wednesday, offering investors in U.K. retail stocks some relief. Shares of brick-and-mortar store operators such as Next Plc and …

Stock quotes in this article: … Amazon.com (AMZN) , Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) will all be reporting after the close on an earnings-filled Thursday. Here a look … Amazon also provides quarterly revenue operating income guidance within its report; Q2 revenue and op. income consensus estimates are …