Amazon.com Inc.’s sales and earnings in the busy holiday quarter beat analysts’ estimates, showing the world’s biggest web retailer can maintain rapid growth while improving profitability and fending off online competition from rivals such as Walmart Inc.
January 31, 2019Amazon
Business
An Amazon fulfillment center. (Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg News)
Amazon Sales, Profit Top Estimates as Retail, Advertising Soar
An Amazon fulfillment center. (Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg News)
Business
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Amazon Likely to Post Slowest Revenue Growth Since 2015
Jim Young/Bloomberg News
Amazon.com reports fourth-quarter results after the market closes Jan. 31, with analysts braced for a relatively weak read on revenue growth, and focusing instead on the benefits cloud-computing and advertising have had on its margins.
January 31, 2019
Business, Technology, Logistics, Top 100
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FedEx Introduces Way for Retailers to Outrace Amazon in Delivery
Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg News
FedEx Corp., looking beyond Amazon.com Inc. for growth in e-commerce, is introducing a new late-night shipping option for retailers who want to speedily send orders directly to online customers.
January 29, 2019
Business, Technology, Logistics
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Google’s Bid to Battle Amazon Suffers Blow As Walmart Withdraws
Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News
Walmart Inc. has quietly withdrawn from one of Google’s marquee efforts to challenge Amazon.com in e-commerce.
January 25, 2019
Business, Technology, Autonomous
Amazon Scout (Amazon.com)
Amazon to Test Delivery Robots on Seattle-Area Sidewalks
Amazon Scout (Amazon.com)
Amazon.com will use robots to deliver packages in the suburbs north of Seattle, its latest experiment to automate the last mile of delivery that is a labor-intensive and costly component of buying products online.
January 23, 2019
Business, Logistics, TCA
Chicago Rockford International Airport
Amazon Arrival Helps Chicago Rockford International Airport Break Cargo Record
Chicago Rockford International Airport
ROCKFORD, Ill. — More than 2.1 billion pounds of cargo made its way through Chicago Rockford International Airport in 2018 — shattering the previous record, set in 2017, by 55%.
January 22, 2019
Business, Logistics
Chicago Rockford International Airport
Amazon Air Announces Significant Expansion in Major Markets
Chicago Rockford International Airport
The air transport division of online retailer Amazon is expanding its capacity at a regional airport near Chicago that markets itself as an alternative to the city’s O’Hare International Airport, the nation’s sixth busiest cargo facility.
December 18, 2018
Business, Technology, Logistics
Amazon Prime delivery van. (Bloomberg News)
Amazon Thrives on FedEx Delivery Model, but Driver Pay Challenges Persist
Amazon Prime delivery van. (Bloomberg News)
Five years on, Amazon.com Inc.’s chief executive officer is betting on decidedly more terrestrial technology: Drivers. As in real people. Tens of thousands of them. High-tailing it through town in gas-slurping vans to leave packages on doorsteps just like the milkman, postal worker, UPS guy and pizza dude before them.
December 17, 2018
Government, Business, Logistics
Amazon's fulfillment center in Staten Island. (Julie Jacobson/AP)
Employees at Amazon’s New NYC Warehouse Launch Union Push
Amazon's fulfillment center in Staten Island. (Julie Jacobson/AP)
A committee of employees at Amazon.com’s recently opened Staten Island fulfillment center is going public with a unionization campaign, a fresh challenge to the e-commerce giant in a city where it plans to build a major new campus.
December 12, 2018
Business, Logistics
Chicago Rockford International Airport
Amazon Chooses Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport for Regional Hub
Chicago Rockford International Airport
Amazon.com is building a new regional air hub at Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport, bolstering its shipping business in a move that’s expected to create hundreds of jobs for the region.
December 11, 2018Pages
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