Every now and then retailers give what Southerners call a lagniappe (an extra bonus or gift) to its customers. Today, Amazon is doing just that by offering a $8.62 discount to all sales of $50 or more. The reason behind this generous offering is Amazon’s corporate...
Shortly after a similar move retailer Walmart made a few weeks ago, eCommerce giant Amazon announced it is also lowering the threshold for free shipping to $35. In January, Walmart decided to shut down the pilot of its ShippingPass program, a fee-based, two-day shipping offering...
Amazon stock (AMZN) spent the past two weeks recovering from an over $30 slip in value following the retail giant’s Q4 earnings announcement on Feb. 2. While Amazon’s EPS in Q4 outpaced analysts’ projections, coming in at $1.54 a share, over the expected $1.35, the...
Corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission can reveal a wealth of data, some of it quantitative, some of it qualitative. In some cases, information can be a mixture of both and must be guesstimated rather than solely calculated. So it is with Amazon,...
With the launch of Chime, a calling and video messaging software available as a web application, Amazon is now in direct competition with Microsoft’s Skype for Business and Cisco’s WebEx. The Seattle-based company is making the software available through Amazon Web Services, which started out as...
Amazon’s Amazon Business unit has inked a multi-year public sector contract to provide public agencies with a slew of different products. According to a report, the deal is valued at as much as $5.5 billion. The deal includes greater than 55,000 organizations, such as state and...
Long ago, value investing proponents such as Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham put forth the fictional embodiment of the stock market in the form “Mr. Market.” This allegory was, and is, anything but genteel. Think of Mr. Market, said these famed investors, as carried away...
Last week, Amazon released its Q4 earnings report for 2016, and while the company posted revenue of $43.7 billion, the reality fell below The Street’s $44.7 billion expectations, sending shares down 4 percent in after-hours trading as a result. Looking at Amazon’s year-end numbers, it’s...
When PYMNTS released our first “Buy Button” report last year, it came as big news to many that a Pay with Amazon button was present on roughly 10 percent of the top eCommerce sites in the U.S., second only to PayPal (at 70 percent). The...
