Tag: Amazon.com
Don’t blame Amazon, Apple for today’s expensive market
The highest-valued stock in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, based on this year’s expected earnings, is not Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. or any...
Amazon is already undercutting prices on over-the-counter pills
NEW YORK – As pharmacy chains await Amazon.com Inc.’s entry into the prescription-drug market, the online retail giant is already undercutting them for non-prescription...
Amazon makes big foray into health care with PillPack purchase and...
NEW YORK – Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to buy the online pharmacy startup PillPack, jumping into the health care business with a deal that will...
T.F. Green traffic continues increase in April on discount airline traffic
WARWICK – Traffic at T.F. Green Airport in April totaled 392,862, a 22.5 percent increase from April 2017’s 320,804 passengers, according to the most...
Online retailers can be forced to collect tax, high court rules
NEW YORK - The U.S. Supreme Court freed states and local governments to start collecting billions of dollars in sales taxes from internet retailers...
Dimon, Bezos, Buffett tap Harvard’s Gawande for health firm
NEW YORK - Atul Gawande, a surgeon and journalist who has written extensively about the U.S. failure to grapple with rising health care spending,...
Amazon to expand Boston technology hub with 2,000 new jobs
NEW YORK - Amazon.com Inc. said it’s hiring 2,000 people in Boston, expanding an existing technology hub that focuses on everything from machine learning...
Amazon checking-account threat puts regional banks on defensive
NEW YORK - America’s regional banks are preparing to defend their turf.
Amazon.com Inc., already a lender to small businesses, is now in early discussions to...
Can too much transparency hinder economic development?
There’s a running debate between the state and some outside parties about how much information related to luring business here should be shared with...
Tech rout sinks stocks as lines of defense crumble
NEW YORK - The deepening rout in once high-flying technology shares sent U.S. stocks tumbling to start the second quarter, as fresh presidential criticism...
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