Amazon Set To Hire Another 75K Workers Amid Ordering Boom
Amazon Set To Hire Another 75K Workers Amid Ordering Boom
April 13, 2020  |  Personnel

Amazon is pulling in more orders than ever, which has the company hiring thousands of employees while traditional retail businesses are making layoffs. With COVID-19...

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SoftBank’s Struggling Vision Fund On Track To Lose $16.5B
SoftBank’s Struggling Vision Fund On Track To Lose $16.5B
April 13, 2020  |  Investments

SoftBank Group Corp. is forecasting that its $100 billion Vision Fund will lose $16.5 billion in the financial year ending March 31, which means the...

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Apple Pushes Toward Redesigned iPhone Release
Apple Pushes Toward Redesigned iPhone Release
April 13, 2020  |  Apple

Apple’s annual release of new products is highly anticipated — but difficult to predict in terms of timing and the extent of the changes the...

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eBay Taps Ex-Walmart Exec As CEO
eBay Taps Ex-Walmart Exec As CEO
April 13, 2020  |  Personnel

Jamie Iannone, who recently served as Walmart’s chief operating officer, is the new CEO of eBay Inc., the company announced in a press release on...

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Airlines Eye Selling Miles For Cash
Airlines Eye Selling Miles For Cash
April 13, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Cash is the buffer that can help companies grapple with the drop in consumer demand, the ripple effects of disrupted supply chains and disappearing top...

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Big Week Ahead For Retail Data
Big Week Ahead For Retail Data
April 13, 2020  |  Retail

Prepare for a big week of retail data, all of it unprecedented in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting with the Commerce Department retail sales...

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Black Swans Are The Sandbox Of New Innovations
Black Swans Are The Sandbox Of New Innovations
April 13, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Jim McCarthy, i2c president, says disasters often breed innovation. “Telecommuting, online education and moving to a cashless and virtual financial system will likely become the...

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Toy Fair Takes Business Into Its Own Hands
Toy Fair Takes Business Into Its Own Hands
April 13, 2020  |  Retail

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, an industry trade association is stepping in to help restart a retail community hit hard by the...

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Providing Access To Healthy Meals With Telehealth Retail
Providing Access To Healthy Meals With Telehealth Retail
April 13, 2020  |  Today In Data

The quickly evolving telehealth category has a new business model, with diabetes prevention program (DPP) Fruit Street teaming with meal kit company Purple Carrot to add a retail spin to its...

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