Amazon is acquiring online pharmacy PillPack in a deal that is already shaking up the drugstore industry. The move is the strongest indication yet of Amazon's intent to push further into the health-care industry. It threatens to remove one of…
Your customers are changing. Your competitors are changing. And your technology … well, that’s getting more complex by the day. But how is your bank navigating all of that change? That’s the urgent question for the banking industry, and the…
For today’s corporate tax professionals, the challenges now seem to come without letup. Political developments that threaten trade and tax regimes. Mandates from executive management to do more with less. The gig work trend. A wide range of new technologies…
Dive Brief: Prime Day, Amazon's summer blockbuster sale that last year ran on July 11, stoked brands' and retailers' sales by an average 57%, according to online ad firm Criteo. Amazon's own sales increased 60% during last year's Prime Day,…
Dive Brief: Sears Holdings' falling store sales have been a much-discussed topic in the retail world, but the company's e-commerce sales also lag far behind its stronger department store peers, according to data from e-commerce research firm Edison Trends emailed…
It's a swiftly evolving retail world, where department stores grapple with reinvention, direct-to-consumer startups proliferate and even top brands like Nike fuel direct sales on marketplaces. It's tempting to see the traditional retail buyer as an endangered creature. Shoppers are…
United States District Court Judge Richard J. Leon has ruled in favor of AT&T in the government’s antitrust suit to block AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner . That decision matches word on the street over the past few weeks,…
THE WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER IS BACK IN AMERICA Last week, the US Department of Energy and IBM unveiled Summit, America’s latest supercomputer, which is expected to bring the title of the world’s most powerful computer back to America from China,…
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find an industry where artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t already making or expected to make an impact. The freelance economy is no exception. Smart technologies have entered the freelancing space with intensity, and not just where…
Love it or hate, the biggest companies in the world just can't ignore blockchain any longer. The distributed ledger technology that first let owners of the bitcoin cryptocurrency exchange value without a bank has forced its way into the research…