President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policy on April 2 didn’t just cause mayhem in the stock market. It sent Amazon sellers into a panic. Many sellers on Amazon count on China for manufacturing and assembly due to lower costs and established infrastructure – up to 70% of goods on Amazon …
Atop a newly completed, 3.5-million-square-foot building that stands on 1,100 acres in the Arizona desert north of Phoenix is a giant logo of a microchip wafer and the letters TSMC. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s first Arizona chip fabrication plant, or fab, is making history because it’s the most advanced chip …
Lindsey Hyams, 23, of Marlboro, NJ, likes to shop online, but she often ends up going to the mall to make purchases. She said she likes to skip the wait for online purchases to arrive and the hassle of packing up returns. Shawn Baldwin | CNBC Editor’s note: This is …
Say hello to life at the mall. The classic American mall is undergoing a dramatic transformation as real estate developers swap out dying department stores for apartments, ushering in an era where living at the mall could soon become a new norm. Some U.S. developers are knocking down department stores …
In 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was asked by TV host Charlie Rose whether his e-commerce company would ever venture into brick-and-mortar stores. Bezos said shoppers were well-served by existing physical retailers and that Amazon wasn’t interested in launching a “me-too” product. “We want to do something that’s uniquely Amazon,” …
Inside a sprawling lab at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, hundreds of server racks hum across several aisles, performing tasks far less ubiquitous than running the world’s dominant search engine or executing workloads for Google Cloud’s millions of customers. Instead, they’re running tests on Google’s own microchips, called Tensor …
Thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, new data centers are springing up as quickly as companies can build them. This has translated into huge demand for power to run and cool the servers inside. Now concerns are mounting about whether the U.S. can generate enough electricity for the widespread adoption …
Stuck at home during the Covid pandemic, Megan Crozier needed a way to keep her two young children entertained. She bought an inflatable pool from Sam’s Club. The pool began leaking air after just a few uses. For Crozier, chief merchant of the Walmart-owned membership club, that trashed pool — …
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — When Gil Curren’s family moved into a run-down farmhouse in Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas, in 1971, the now-retail giant wasn’t yet a decade old. Sometimes, the nearby creek would flood, and cows would break loose onto the dirt road in front of his home. Now, when …