GameStop Corp. GME,
announced on Wednesday that it has hired Matt Francis for the new role created by the technology director, starting with February 15th.
Business in the cloud Amazon Web Services. The stock of the consumer video and electronic games retailer, which was recently the poster for the apparent short appearance led by the users of the Reddit Wall Street betting forum, registered a 25.0% jump in premarket trading. The stock fell 72.3% in the last two days, but rose another 677.9% in the last three days to Tuesday, while the S&P 500 SPX,
increased by 13.6%. GameStop also announced that Kelli Durkin, most recently at Chewy Inc. CHWY,
was hired to be senior vice president of customer support. The company also hired Josh Krueger as vice president of fulfillment; Kruger previously held fulfillment roles for Amazon.com Inc. AMZN,
and Walmart Inc. WMT,