WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission will allow public companies to make significant announcements on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites provided they alert investors which sites they intend to use.The decision announced Tuesday allows companies to use social media ...
Online retailers Walmart.com and Amazon.com are looking to extend their reach by putting delivery lockers in drugstores and convenience stores, and in chain stores like Staples, to meet customers' demands for faster access to online orders.E-commerce giant Amazon has quietly been testing ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The two new suitors pursuing Dell have a message for Wall Street: Don't allow Michael Dell to hoard potential gains from the PC maker's expansion into more profitable technology products and services.Competing bidders Carl Icahn and the Blackstone Group LP are wooing Dell ...
WASHINGTON -- Sending people into space is a tough way to make a buck. Not only is it risky, but it's hard to turn a profit given the sky-high cost of rocketing into the upper atmosphere or beyond.But recently, a handful of entrepreneurs, marketers and, yes, even rocket scientists, have ...
AUSTIN, Texas -- For all the talk of space travel, the wearable gadgets, marketing stunts and lavish parties, something was missing at this year's South By Southwest Interactive Festival: the next "hot app."The brainy tech jamboree held each year in Texas' capital city is known as the place ...
Apple Inc. has dominated the mobile device market since basically inventing the sector with the iPhone and iPad, but tablets running the Android operating system will overtake the iPad in 2013 much as Android-based smartphones already have, according to analyses from IDC.A study released ...
