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This weekend in Barron's online: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is overdue for a makeover, and the prospects for eBay, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Oracle. Cover Story "Shake Up the Dow!" by Andrew Bary. Barron's cover story this week suggests that the Dow Jones Industrial Average risks...

The earnings crunch is on this week. Among the scheduled quarterly reports from the financial sector are those from American Express, Bank of America, Bank of New York, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. The tech sector will be represented by earnings reports from IBM, Intel, Microsoft,...

Western Union (NYSE: WU) is adding to its retail e-commerce business with a new payment option that will be integrated directly into a few big retail sites. With "WU Pay," announced Thursday, Western Union is directly challenging eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal unit. Although PayPal is trying out...

This growing startup is taking a different route to success. Early last year, 1SaleADay's founder and CEO, Ben Federman, told Benzinga about his big plans for the year. By March, it was revealed that the company had acquired a significant (but undisclosed) investment, which later helped the...

eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2011 results tomorrow, January 18, after the markets close. CEO John Donahoe said at the Consumer Electronics Show that mobile commerce is expected to be surge this year, with PayPal payments increasing as much as 75%. Investors could use...

This week will offer a good look at the state of the financial sector as many of the big banks share their fourth-quarter results. JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) broke the ice on Friday, reporting a decline in earnings that was more than analysts had estimated. Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Goldman Sachs (...

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) reports that U.S. online holiday spending is approaching $25 billion for the season, an increase of 15% from the previous year. Is this huge news? It is for online retailers. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) have been trying to move shoppers out of traditional...

Target to the Salvation Army: You're not welcome at Christmas dinner! Or any other time of the year, for that matter. Since 2004, Target (NYSE: TGT) has praised and supported The Salvation Army while simultaneously keeping its bell ringers from standing outside its doors. The company has...

By Carol Kopp The concept of Cyber Monday started spontaneously in 2006, or so the story goes. After the long holiday weekend, workers trudged back to their cubes, but snuck in a little online holiday shopping time in lieu of work. Web retailers noticed and rejoiced. Voila! A marketing hook was...

Can anyone tell how well LivingSocial is actually doing? Probably not. We know the site is popular, and we know that it broke a record or two by selling a zillion $20 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) gift cards for half price. But is that a genuine measure of success? If I sound cynical, it's because I'm a...