Amazon is rolling out pickup points in the United States where shoppers can retrieve items immediately after ordering them, shortening delivery times from hours to minutes, the company said on Tuesday. The world’s largest online retailer has launched ‘Instant Pickup’ points around five college campuses, such as the University of California at Berkeley, it said. […]
Read moreA small town in the remote north of the Arctic Circle is set to be home to the world’s largest data center. The Kolos facility is being developed by a US-Norwegian partnership, also called Kolos, who say the site will eventually draw on a record-setting 1000 megawatts of power. On their website, Kolos claim Ballangen’s […]
Read moreSamsung, Google and Philips are working with a start-up called Puls to deliver Genius Bar-style repairs and tech demonstrations to customers at home. Founded in 2015, Puls started out as a mobile phone repair service called CellSavers. It focused on fixing common mobile device issues like spent batteries or cracked screens. This week, the company […]
Read moreUPS Chairman and CEO David Abney said Tuesday the U.S. must fix its roads and bridges because a simple delay adds up to millions of lost dollars. “We have about 100,000 drivers, and if we have a five-minute congestion delay on each of those drivers every day, that’s $105 million a year,” Abney said on […]
Read moreA rise in domestic hate groups — whose vitriol spilled from online forums to the streets of Charlottesville during a violent weekend protest by white supremacists — is intensifying pressure on GoDaddy, Twitter, Google and others to put a lid on U.S. extremist sites. Civil libertarians and religious leaders say the deadly Charlottesville protest on […]
Read moreHerbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows – in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as “a GREAT employee.” But it’s all nostalgia. Mays’ last […]
Read moreSnap shareholders are having a difficult time. Its shares are down significantly from their high on weaker-than-expected second quarter earnings, big insider selling lockups, increasing competition from Facebook and big-name hedge funds dumping the stock. But one Wall Street firm is now saying the worst may be over. Cantor Fitzgerald on Tuesday raised its rating […]
Read moreAfter several months of rising markets, it seems investors may finally be starting to get nervous about the future. Over the last several weeks, billions of dollars have flowed in money-market funds, with net inflows totaling $30.9 billion for the week ending Aug. 9, according to Lipper Fund Research. In the two weeks prior, net […]
Read moreU.S. retail sales recorded their biggest increase in seven months in July as consumers boosted purchases of motor vehicles as well as discretionary spending, suggesting the economy continued to gain momentum early in the third quarter. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday that retail sales jumped 0.6 percent last month. That was the largest gain […]
Read moreIt appears anxiety over the North Korea nuclear missile threat is getting flushed out of the stock market. The market made a solid comeback on Monday, after the war fears that dragged down stocks last week subsided. But Art Cashin, UBS’ director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange, doesn’t want investors to […]
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