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Etsy maintains profitability with a 5.7% net margin, while Wayfair is still unprofitable despite 5.1% revenue growth.

Videogame retailer GameStop owns nearly 10% ‌of e-commerce company eBay, the ‌company said in a regulatory filing ​late on Friday, nearly three months after making an unsolicited offer to buy eBay ‌for roughly $56 ⁠billion. GameStop said it owns 43.4 million outstanding shares ⁠of eBay, or 9.8%, marking a dramatic increase in ownership ​from early ​May ​when GameStop CEO ‌Ryan Cohen told eBay's board chairman "we have accumulated a 5% economic stake" through derivatives and beneficial ownership. GameStop bought 3.5 million ‌eBay shares for ​roughly $381 million last ​month ​and said it settled ‌39 million eBay ​shares from ​put/call pairs on Friday.

Peter Thiel is to receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award for shaping digital transformation.

GameStop (GME) is back in focus after the company announced a nationwide partnership with Uber Technologies, which puts its games, consoles, and collectibles onto the Uber Eats on demand retail platform. See our latest analysis for GameStop. Despite high profile moves such as the Uber Eats partnership and the pursuit of eBay, GameStop’s 30 day share price return of 2.14% and 90 day share price decline of 10.71% sit alongside a 1 year total shareholder return that is down 5.22%. Together,...

Large-cap stocks have the power to shape entire industries thanks to their size and widespread influence. With such vast footprints, however, finding new areas for growth is much harder than for smaller, more agile players.

Investing.com -- GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen said he will not back down from his pursuit of eBay Inc., despite the online auction company's rejection of his $56 billion takeover bid.

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The deal was first disclosed in February, when eBay agreed to acquire Depop from Etsy via an all-cash arrangement valued at $1.2bn.

Despite its recent struggles, PayPal still has a massive 439 million consumer accounts while Stripe’s customers are mostly merchants.

Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki sold more than half of his direct holdings in the conglomerate as it unveils two new initiatives.

Democratic socialism stresses "affordability," but is a $50 World Cup jersey that almost nobody can buy really affordable?

PayPal shares are up 19% in premarket trading after Reuters reported that payments processor Stripe and private-equity firm Advent offered to buy it for $60.50 a share, in a deal that would value at it more than $53 billion. If the gains hold, PayPal shares are on track to open above $56. PayPal shares have languished in the past few years as the company has struggled to compete in the payments-technology space.

Best Buy dominates in absolute scale, but GameStop's profit margins tell a starkly different story.

The online marketplace sent owners a fortune in cash, yet the stock itself went nowhere fast. Here’s what that trade-off bought, and what it means for holding on now.

The company is intentionally sacrificing profits for growth, but the quality of that growth, especially in its credit arm, is the key vulnerability for investors.

According to data from Fiscal.ai, MercadoLibre has posted consistent, sometimes massive, growth for about 28 consecutive quarters.

eBay (EBAY) has just been added to several Russell growth indexes, including the Russell Midcap Growth, Russell 1000 Growth, Russell 3000 Growth, and Russell 3000E Growth benchmarks, which may put the stock on more institutional radars. See our latest analysis for eBay. Alongside the Russell index additions and product updates like eBay Live and investments in AI driven recommerce, the stock has shown strong momentum, with a 34.8% year to date share price return and a 53.9% total shareholder...

eBay recently expanded its eBay Live livestream shopping platform into the eBay Partner Network affiliate program and invested in AI-powered secondhand fashion startup Fleek, deepening its focus on interactive commerce and recommerce technology. Together, these moves highlight how eBay is trying to blend social-style shopping with AI-driven resale infrastructure to reinforce its role in high-engagement, secondhand categories. We’ll now examine how integrating eBay Live with affiliates shapes...

eBay will report its Q2 results soon. Here’s what analysts expect out of it…

Fleek built the first AI trained on secondhand fashion market data.

Mizuho Americas estimates that the US trading card market could be worth anywhere between $10 billion to $20 billion, as more consumers go all in on collectibles like Pokémon cards. Mizuho Americas director and senior analyst David Bellinger explains this phenomenon and some of the biggest drivers behind the trading card craze.

Nick Bruni always liked the idea of being his own boss.

Before the stock took off, the company was running a high-stakes test in the U.K. that was quietly proving its entire turnaround strategy could work.

REVIEW PREVIEW NEWSLETTER Hard landing. Things were looking up for chip stocks on Monday. Then Tuesday came around, and that rally fizzled out. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.2% today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.

Investors approved all proposals at the annual meeting, giving the videogame retailer greater flexibility for future strategic transactions.

The market is offering a yield on this growing business that dwarfs government debt, forcing investors to ask if the catch is too good to be true.

Social wardrope app Whering has planned to advance its AI-powered wardrobe capabilities and strengthen its circular retail data platform after raising $7m in seed funding.

Mental health experts see similarities between opening a pack of trading cards and the rush that accompanies traditional gambling.

A company that generates cash isn’t automatically a winner. Some businesses stockpile cash but fail to reinvest wisely, limiting their ability to expand.

Most people have heard the usual side hustle advice: drive for a rideshare app, deliver food or start freelancing online. But a recent Reddit discussion showed that some of the most profitable side hustles are the ones that sound strange,...