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Shoppers wait for a GameStop store to open on at the Tysons Corner Center, in Tysons, Virginia, November 27, 2020. Hannah McKay | Reuters GameStop rallied on Monday after the brick-and-mortar video game retailer announced its succession plan as it seeks to pivot to e-commerce following a historic Reddit-fueled short squeeze earlier this year. Shares of …

Text size GameStop is increasingly focusing on e-commerce. Spencer Platt/Getty Images GameStop ‘s executive shake-up continued this week with the announced departure of Chief Merchandising Officer Chris Homeister. Expect more hiring as the retailer continues to focus on e-commerce. A person familiar with the matter told Barron’s that hiring talent from e-commerce and technology companies …

The moment of truth is now a closing bell away for GameStop (NYSE:GME). The struggling retailer with a buoyant share price reports its fiscal fourth-quarter results at the end of Tuesday’s trading. The look back won’t be pretty. The look ahead will have to be everything. There’s been a lot of buzz swirling since the …

Here’s what you need to know: A GameStop store in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. Jim Bell, the company’s chief financial officer, who joined the company in mid-2019, is leaving.Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York Times GameStop’s chief financial officer, Jim Bell, is leaving the company in late March, following a stock-trading frenzy that …

Jeff Sica of Circle Squared Alternative Investments on possible movie treatments for the GameStop stock frenzy and Disney earnings. In all the craziness of Sunday night’s Super Bowl, viewers in some of America’s biggest cities may have missed an ad from Reddit. The spot ran for a total of five seconds, consisting of a simple …

GameStop’s stock price gyrated in early trading on Wednesday, briefly sliding below $90 as shares in the video game retailer continued to lose altitude after a spectacular rally over the last week. The dip suggests that the popular WallStreetBets Reddit stock market discussion board that has helped drive the run-up may be losing its magic …

“Saturday Night Live” returned for a new year, poking fun at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the coronavirus vaccine rollout and a Wall Street crisis during the show’s cold open.  In a skit titled “What still works,” actress and comedian Kate McKinnon hosted a mock talk show with a slew of fellow cast members spoofing various figures in …

The Robinhood application on a smartphone. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Online broker Robinhood said that it put temporary buying restrictions on a small number of securities because central Wall Street clearinghouse-mandated deposit requirements for equities increased tenfold. The decision by Robinhood, a free-trading pioneer and app that’s popular among small investors, drew scrutiny …

GameStop’s and AMC’s stocks have spiked in recent days. Here’s what’s going on. Sarah Tew/CNET Wall Street investors have bet struggling video game retailer GameStop would fail for a long time. At points, it’s been one of the most heavily bet-against stocks on the market. But over the past few months, a bunch of Reddit users have been pushing …

Reddit’s GameStop stock battle with Wall Street is turning into a war  CNET Lawmakers from AOC to Ted Cruz are bashing Robinhood over its GameStop trading freeze  CNBC GameStop Stock Trading: 4 Things to Know  The New York Times An open letter to the GameStop army on Reddit  MarketWatch The Reddit Wolves of Wall Street  The Wall Street Journal View …