Amazon (AMZN) is taking its streaming video rivalry with Netflix (NFLX) to Japan, announcing late Wednesday that it will launch Prime Instant Video next month. Netflix had said earlier this month that it would launch in Japan on Sept. 2. Meanwhile, Amazon reportedly is scaling back its hardware efforts after its Fire smartphone last year failed to make a dent vs. the Apple (AAPL) iPhone and Google (GOOGL) Android devices. Amazon, which has
Now that Carly Fiorina has gained some steam in her longshot bid for the Republican presidential nomination, more questions are surfacing about what she did — or failed to do — as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Fiorina left the tech giant more than a decade ago, but her controversial five-year-plus tenure leading the tech giant is her biggest claim to fame as voters try to assess her abilities. The 60-year-old Fiorina has been relatively inactive since
Worries about future growth weighed on Workday stock, even as the company continued an estimate-beating streak Wednesday with second-quarter earnings that on an adjusted basis turned the corner into profitability. The provider of cloud-based finance and human resources software delivered a 2-cent per share profit excluding items for the period ended July 31. That’s a swing from an 11-cent loss a year ago and beats the 6-cent loss expected, on