Amazon is rolling out yet another new benefit for its Prime members, but this one’s a mouthful: It’s called the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature card. If you’re as overstocked with Amazon trivia as I’ve become, you may know that Amazon already has three other branded credit cards. So what’s the difference with this one? …

Ahead of a planned sale of its core business to Verizon, Yahoo this week made a few adjustments to what will be left of its company after the deal. First off, the Yahoo name will be changed to Altaba, in reference to a huge stake in Alibaba the remaining company will still hold. Also, CEO Marissa Mayer will step down …

For game seven of the World Series this past November, StubHub sold millions of dollars of tickets in just the two hours prior to the first pitch. A third of the folks there, who witnessed the Chicago Cubs snap a 108-year championship drought, got their seats through the online ticketing site. It’s stats like these that show StubHub is great …

There’s a part of eBay that caters to the superrich. Sure, the website offers 1 billion live listings at any given time, so there’s usually something for everyone. Yet, a choice few items that come to the online marketplace are extremely rare, extremely expensive or both. eBay gave us an exclusive list of the highest-priced sales worldwide in 15 categories …

Jeff Bezos’ elves were busy. On Thursday morning, just three days before Christmas, a crew of Amazon employees darted around the company’s warehouse on the fifth floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building. They roamed the narrow aisles to fill brown paper bags with new orders of toiletries, Amazon devices and canned foods. Workers then brought carts filled with these …

Apple’s iPhone design hasn’t changed in two years. Will 2017 be different? Looking at what the new year could bring from the tech giant, we consider what the next iPhone and Apple Watch could look like. We also chat about new iris-scanning tech from Qualcomm that could help kill off passwords and about Google’s parent company reportedly axing plans to …

On Monday, Amazon revealed a new 1,800-square-foot convenience store in Seattle called Amazon Go. Soon after, the Wall Street Journal reported that the online retailer has plans to open not just one 7-Eleven-style store, but more than 2,000 grocery locations. That’s four times the number of Trader Joe’s markets, a scale that could radically change the way we shop. Don’t …

Can’t wait to shop at an Amazon supermarket? Well, you may have to wait a very, very long time. Two days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon plans to open “more than 2,000 brick-and-mortar grocery stores under its name,” the company knocked down the idea as false. “It’s absolutely not correct,” Amazon spokeswoman Pia Arthur said in an …

Google is going completely renewable. The search giant said in a blog post Tuesday it expects to reach its goal of running 100 percent of its global operations, including data centers and officers, on renewable energy sources in 2017. Those data centers, in particular, gobble up enormous amounts of energy to power trillions of Google searches every year. To offset …

Instagram is keeping up its push to be a friendlier social network. In a post Tuesday, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom said the photo-sharing social network will let users turn off comments on any of their posts. The feature, available for only a few accounts right now, will arrive “in the coming weeks,” he said. Users will be able to …