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The holiday sales numbers are in and they are less than impressive. What To Know: The National Retail Federation had predicted sales of nearly $1 trillion for the 2023 holiday season, but the latest figures show sales came in closer to $900 billion. Forrester Research retail...

Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk this week rebranded Twitter to X and also changed the bird logo to the letter “X.” Musk's backers and critics took exception to the change on the premise that it might ward off advertisers. What Happened: Future Fund's Gary Black is among those...

Physical retail is still relevant, although it looks much different than it has in the past, according to one leading sector analyst. The Analyst Forrester Research's Sucharita Kodali discussed the state of retail on CNBC's "Squawk Box." The Thesis Malls anchored by...

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) dished out $4.4 billion last year to acquire AOL, so why is it spending another $4.8 billion to buy Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)'s Internet properties which Warren Buffett himself said have "deteriorated significantly"? According to The...

Four dollars doesn't buy you much these days, but in India, it can buy you a smartphone. An India-based company that is virtually unknown outside of the country called Ringing Bells Pvt will begin shipping its Freedom 251 phone. According to Bloomberg, the phone is a quad-core processor with a four...

Recently, there has been a shift within the personal financial world nudging investors away from traditional advisors to digitalized guides. Robo-advisors, these new financial management services, minimize or entirely eliminate the human financial advisor aspect of asset managing. While robo-...

Over time, consumers in general may take to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass. Many, however, believe the device has significant potential in the world of enterprise. So does Google, and as a result, Google Glass is seeking placement at a business near you. Late Monday Google announced, via Google+,...

It’s called “anticipatory shipping,” and according to Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) recent patent application would provide the company a means to move products closer to you so you would get them quicker when you do eventually place an order. The trick has to do with knowing which products to move...

Now that the iPhone is finally headed to Verizon (NYSE: VZ), consumers and analysts alike are wondering if it is only a matter of time before Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) moves to Sprint (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile. Is it merely a pipedream? Up until last fall, it seemed as if the Verizon rumors would never...

According to an article on Bloomberg, Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has gained acceptance at Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) in just two weeks. This is in stark contrast to the two years that WFC spent studying the iPhone before it allowed its bankers to use the device. Megan Minich, a senior...

According to an article on the Wall Street Journal, competition in the Web browser market is heating up again after several years. Just as the Firefox Web browser kindled competition in a market dominated by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Internet Explorer several years back, Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)...