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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Amazon learns from quick acquisition, posts net loss

Living Social an acquisition of 2010 was $170 mln of the $274 Mln loss Amazon noted int he September quarter as its shares tanked 5% on results after Apple also warned of its Holiday season conquests in the marketplace in

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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Apple manages to disapppoint with $36 B topline

Most companies with a $28B topline have had a hard enough time trying to make the same $28B next year. All of them would technically qualify as Apple’s competition till yesterday. Apple, however managed to grow toplines a tad above

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Global Mid-Day Report: Oil stocks thumb down any more “recovery talk”

Retail Gasoline stocks shot up by 4.5 M barrels in the week after having given hope with customers starting drawing down on gas money and inventories flowing to the pump for three months on the trot. Crude Oil inventories on

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, US

US Week Ahead: Facebook, Netflix, Apple and the Digital Economy (July 22, 2012 – July 28, 2012)

These Retail lifestyle champions, variously featured on our series’ would report along with Earnings behemoth Amazon with a dominant share of all digital sales and now local warehouses and the cloud as well.  Ford and Boeing will also report for

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The Deal Economy (Midweek brush) : Oaktree IPO priced, yelp’s yellow reviews don’t help, I am not iPad

I am not an iPad? Drug maker and soon to be Genomics major Roche brought in a new watermark mid week to compare laboratory experiments and start ups to on ground performing ventures. In a letter to target Illumina management

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Posted in Amitonomics, Dealbook, Financial Services, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, US

Apple and Macmillan to bear the brunt of DoJ Action in ebooks | Retail Insight

Book Publishers heaving a sigh of relief on the release of Apple iPad have vigorously defended their decision to change the profit/revenue sharing model in the business after iPad was launched. The post iPad pricing of ebooks saw a 30-40%

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Apple iPad3 first sales reported | Retail Insight

Across ten countries a first guesstimate from inisders came bang on target as 3 mln iPad sales were spoken to by an Insiderat Apple and its only 6 AM on 20 March , 4 days of sales. This Friday Apple

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US Markets ( EoD review ) : Weekend begins at high gains in week, iPad the latest Economic Indicator

Free Guinness is flowing for you if you know a Diageo outlet near you ( I know one in Long Beach, near the Hyatt, off West Ocean (Bl)!)  courtesy St Patrick’s Day. Gold is down for the week, a couple

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The Retail NASDAQ Champions! Apple ticks up to $600 (updated after launch in London, Singapore)

New targets by brokerages returned scores  up $100 at JP Morgan and even $960 by end 2013 yesterday. At $530 Apple hit the halfway rest to a climb for $1Tln market Cap already 30% of the NASDAQ 100 index. This

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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Amazon gets one back on the digital resolutionaries

The $829 64 GB new retinal resolution iPad (2k X 1.5k resolution) may be a gamechange but the Kindle strategy got one back when DOJ announced earlier that Apple would likely be actioned for having manipulated prices in e books

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