Amazon is telling sellers they can begin using FedEx’s ground delivery after the company temporarily halted access to the service during the holiday shopping season. Shares of FedEx went up as much as 3% after the news and ended the day up 1.8%. The company will resume FedEx’s Ground and Home services on Tuesday at 5 p.m. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that the company is resuming ground delivery service on Tuesday. The spokesperson said FedEx Ground and Home services have been consist

Analysts have said there could be some volatility around the release of the trade deal details. So stocks were rattled, when Bloomberg news service Tuesday afternoon reported that tariffs were not expected to be lifted until a phase two deal. The deal is expected to stop any further tariffs and roll back some 15% tariffs to 7.5% on some Chinese goods. “The assumption was the tariffs would not come off until there was a phase two deal and Trump said the other day there would be no phase two until

US President Donald Trump (r) and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak to the press during a tour of the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple’s Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on November 20, 2019. In a tweet, President Donald Trump slammed Apple over whether it is providing law enforcement with enough support to unlock password-protected iPhones used by the shooting suspect at a Navy base in Pensacola, Florida in December. “We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so ma

But with the company closing so many of its outlets, retail-watchers are generally more interested in same-store comparisons. The video chain’s final pre-bankruptcy protection revenues were down 20%, following the previous quarter which was down 5%. In its previous quarter ended in October, the company announced sales down 14%, with same-store sales down 11%. This time last year, the company announced holiday sales down 5%. Seeking Alpha today said the company faces “challenging existential ques

Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the isometric role-playing game, could get a sequel. Developer Owlcat Games is working on a follow-up called Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and it’s once again turning to crowdfunding to finance the RPG’s development. A Kickstarter campaign for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is scheduled to go live on Feb. 4, but there’s no release window for the RPG yet. The Russia-based development team at Owlcat was relatively unknown before its campaign for Kingmaker succeeded

There is little The Mandalorian fans want other than a Baby Yoda plush figure. Baby Yoda merch has been trickling out since the show’s debut — there are official printed goods, like T-shirts and coffee cups, but Baby Yoda plushies won’t be available until spring. So far, we’ve seen a couple options, like the plastic-y looking Baby Yoda doll that showed up on Walmart’s website late last year. Build a Bear Baby Yoda will be coming in the next few monthsVia business insider #TheMandalorian pic.twit

Now you can find out how much time you spent on your PlayStation 4 last year. Sony has posted a fun online tool that creates an infographic of PlayStation users’ gaming time. If you’re an adult with a PlayStation Network account, you can log in here. The tool churns out the top three games you played in 2019, and how much time you spent on them. The tool will also log hours spent on your Vita, if you’re still using the PlayStation portable.

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared skeptical about the criminal prosecution of two associates of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who are appealing their convictions in the “Bridgegate” scandal involving retribution against a local mayor who refused to endorse Christie. Chris Christie, arrives to testify in the Bridgegate trial at the Federal Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey, U.S. October 27, 2016. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018 upheld the 2016 convictions of Kelly and Ba

SmileDirectClub stock rose 15% on Monday after it announced that it will start selling its teeth-straightening products to dentists and orthodontists. The company’s exclusive partnership with Align Technology expired at the end of 2019, freeing it up to market its clear aligners directly. SmileDirectClub shares were recently trading up 15% at $11.78. Meanwhile, shares of Align fell about 3%, on word that the two companies will now be in direct head-to-head competition. The company will support t

Signage is displayed in the window of a Comcast Corp. Xfinity store in King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Comcast said Tuesday it is launching a new accelerator for start-ups that could help it leverage a multibillion dollar market opportunity in sports. Partnering with Boomtown, an accelerator operator based in Colorado, Comcast will select 10 start-ups that identify as best matches for its sports tech categories, which include fantasy and sports betting, esports, and fan/player engagement. In retu

American has taken the 737 Max off its schedules through June 3, more than a full year later than it expected. American Airlines on Tuesday said it is pulling the Boeing 737 Max from its schedules until early June as the date of the troubled plane’s return to service becomes more uncertain and the manufacturer calls for time-consuming simulator training for pilots before they can fly the plane again. Last week, Boeing about-faced on simulator training, saying pilots should undergo that time-cons

The Child, popularly known as “Baby Yoda,” is a character in the new Disney+ series, “The Mandalorian”Is Baby Yoda good for business? Shares of Build-A-Bear Workshop skyrocketed 15% Tuesday after the company increased its 2019 full-year forecast, citing stronger-than-expected holiday sales, and revealed that it would be releasing a Baby Yoda plush in the coming months. The company said it now expects total revenue for fiscal 2019 to be between $334 million and $338 million. In addition to strong

CFRA Research’s Sam Stovall expects the market’s record rally to earn its street cred. According to Stovall, the process should begin this week as the nation’s biggest companies report 2019 fourth quarter results. “The bar for the fourth quarter is actually set relatively low,” said Stovall. Stovall’s year-end S&P 500 target implies stocks will move deeper into record territory. “By year-end, we’re looking for 3,435 which implies about a mid-7% price appreciation from where we closed 2019,” Stov

Burger King’s largest U.S. franchisee is seeing sales of the Impossible Whopper and the Popeyes chicken sandwich level out as the initial buzz around the two menu items dies down. “The Impossible Whopper has stabilized,” Accordino said at the ICR Conference on Tuesday. In comparison, an average Burger King restaurant owned by Carrols sells 234 beef Whoppers a day, he said. Burger King, however, is doubling down with a test of the Impossible Whopper Jr. and the forthcoming test of Impossible Croi

In total, IRS funding has declined by more than 20% since 2010, factoring for inflation. According to an analysis by Robert Weinberger of the Tax Policy Center, the fiscal 2020 budget Congress passed last month continues the inflation-adjusted decline in IRS funding over the past 20 years. According to ProPublica, the IRS enforcement budget is now down by more than 25%, with the number of IRS employees down by 30,000 over the past decade. In preparing the 2020 IRS budget, Treasury Secretary Stev

BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink used his annual letter to the world’s biggest companies to sound the alarm. Schumer, one of the Democrats most supportive of Trump’s crackdown on China, previously accused the president of caving to Beijing with the phase one trade deal. Trump and Chinese officials are due to sign the initial trade deal Wednesday, with hopes of starting talks on the next phases this year. It’s well-known among financial technology developers, but the average person interacti

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the Google I/O keynote session at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on May 7, 2019. Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday said it plans to acquire Pointy, an Irish retail start-up that helps traditional brick and mortar retailers list inventory online, for an undisclosed amount. “Over the past several years we’ve developed a very close partnership with Google,” Pointy founders Marks Cummins and Charles Bibby said in a release. “It became clear that

Sutthipong KongtrakoolInvestors looking to impact society in a positive way, and hopefully turn a profit in the process, shoveled money into so-called sustainable funds in record amounts last year. Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds with a focus on sustainability raked in $20.6 billion of total new assets in 2019, according to Morningstar. The managers who oversee sustainable funds typically invest based on certain environmental, social or governance factors, or a combination of the three. A

Microsoft officially stopped supporting Windows 7 on Tuesday, which means it’s not issuing any more security updates that will protect you from cyberattacks. That means it’s time to either buy a new computer or upgrade your system to Windows 10. Microsoft says you should buy a new computer if yours is more than 3 years old, since Windows 10 might run slowly on older hardware and won’t offer all the new features. If you have a computer that’s still running Windows 7 but is still fairly new, then

Google said Tuesday it plans to end support for third-party cookies, which fuel much of the digital advertising ecosystem, in its Chrome browser within two years. Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world, with about 69% of global market share as of September 2019, according to Statista. The company also plans an update in February that will require websites to label third-party cookies that can be used on other sites. Apple has made similar moves, with an anti-tracking tool called Int