Amazon Set To Hire Another 75K Workers Amid Ordering Boom

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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