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By Jon D. Markman On December 2, 201904:00 PM Eastern
It’s officially here. Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. By all accounts, companies that have embraced digital are winning, again.
Consumers spent $7.4 billion...
By Jon D. Markman On November 27, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Traditionally, half of all annual retail sales occur during the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Sadly, this season will be the last for many brick-and-mortar stores.
A.C. Moore announced...
By Mike Larson On November 25, 201902:35 PM Eastern
Preparing for the 2020s is no easy feat.
The decade will be turbulent and predicting that turbulence could be tricky.
You will need a cool head. You will need the benefit of experience.
And...
By Jon D. Markman On November 25, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Apple (AAPL) shares may be making new highs, but the heart of its business is under concerted attack.
A Porsche executive told an audience at the Automobility conference in Los Angles last week...
By Jon D. Markman On November 20, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Enormous platforms are taking over most aspects of commerce. And there is almost nothing smaller players can do about it.
Microsoft (MSFT) announced Tuesday that Teams, its enterprise chat...
By Mike Larson On November 20, 201908:00 AM Eastern
Walt Disney Co. (DIS, Rated: “B”) took over the "Star Wars" brand name and intellectual property in 2012 when it bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion. Since then, the media conglomerate has been raking...
By Sean Brodrick On November 16, 201905:00 AM Eastern
There is a tidal wave of debt surging around the world.
Total global debt hit a record high of over $250 trillion in the first half of this year. The International Institute of Finance (IIF)...
By Jon D. Markman On November 13, 201902:04 PM Eastern
Disney (DIS) rolled out its highly anticipated streaming video-on-demand service Tuesday.
There were some issues …
Within hours of the Disney+ debut, the SVOD service was plagued with outages...
By Jon D. Markman On November 11, 201903:27 PM Eastern
The restaurant business is notoriously competitive. According to CNBC, about 60% of all new restaurants fail within their first year. Within five years, that number jumps up to 80%.
Now,...
By Mike Larson On October 30, 201908:00 AM Eastern
The S&P 500 hit new all-time highs this week!
It’s also true that this is the fifth time the S&P has done so since early 2018. Not one of those moves has stuck. That raises a trio of critical...