Shares of Amazon.com Inc. got a boost Friday after a Bernstein Research analyst upgraded the Seattle-based online retailer, expecting faster revenue growth in 2010.
Wall Street manages gains at the end of an upbeat week, with the Dow topping 10,000. Unemployment spikes to a 26-year high. Oil prices slump as dollar churns.
U.S. stocks were little changed in choppy trading on Friday as brokerage upgrades offset data showing the unemployment rate soared to 10.2 percent last month, its highest in more than 26 years.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.
Gains by Starbucks, General Electric and the world's biggest video games company helped Wall Street shrug off disappointing jobs data and move back in to positive territory in early trading on Friday.
British newspaper publisher Telegraph Media switched from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail and is rolling out other Google Apps. But the voyage has been bumpy
ABC certainly has been taking its sweet time in releasing the first episode of "V," a sci-fi television series that debuted earlier this week on the Web in any substantial way. The premiere of a redo of a 1980s miniseries about an lizardy alien invasion disguised as a peace mission by outerspace hotties turned out to be a big broadcast hit, but it is hard to watch online.
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