online retailers

E-commerce operator Etsy Inc (NASDAQ: ETSY) reported first-quarter financial results after the market close Wednesday. Here are the key highlights. What Happened: Etsy reported first-quarter revenue of $640.88 million, up 10.6% year-over-year. The revenue total beat a Street consensus estimate of $...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is undertaking largest expansion in New York City since deciding not to put a second headquarters in the city. The move means New York will get an influx of Amazon corporate jobs without the concessions Amazon had sought for its second headquarters, which it initially...

Online retailers were winners on a good news-bad news Black Friday that saw overall sales up nearly 20% over last year, but sales that came in under some expectations due to a drop-off in traditional brick and mortar shopping. U.S. shoppers spent more than $7 billion on Friday, thanks largely to...

Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS) has a reputation as being grouped within the troubled "mall store" category but in fact around 95 percent of stores are not located inside traditional malls, the company's own CEO Kevin Mansell said in a CNBC interview on Tuesday.   The retailer...

Retail investors who think Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is Macy's Inc (NYSE: M)'s biggest threat are plain wrong, at least according to the fashion retailer's own chief financial officer. According to CNBC, Macy's CFO Karen Hoguet said on Wednesday at the UBS Consumer & Retail Conference...

Retail sales are expected to grow around 4 percent this holiday season, but investors are cautioned against assuming this is a bullish sign for large retailers. This figure would mark an acceleration from last year's holiday sales, which rose 3.6 percent from the year before. Bloomberg, citing a...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is playing hardball with The Mouse. The online retail giant is not allowing its consumers to accept pre-orders of several Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) movies, including Maleficent and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Amazon has used this...

With the holiday season fast approaching, many consumers are looking towards Black Friday on November 29 and Cyber Monday on December 1 to snag the best deals. While Black Friday has generally been considered the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States, the sales have been...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are locking horns over third party sales by independent retailers – in particular those reportedly selling defective or expired Johnson and Johnson products on the Amazon site. According to The Wall Street Journal, these third-party...