Elon Musk appears be to turning off potential Tesla buyers with his embrace of far-right politicians around the world, analysts say, and the hit couldn't come at a worse time.

Mehr and Lopez plan to make RadioShack competitive again, this time online, rather than on street corners or in malls. The big question is: How much value does the RadioShack brand have when the prized target audience of younger consumers may have never owned a radio, let alone stepped inside a RadioShack store? The plan, in short, is to build a vast online marketplace on top of the RadioShack brand. There’s no need to go to your corner RadioShack to find something, or even to RadioShack online.”Yet Mehr doesn't look at Amazon as a competitor. The former owners have retained a minority stake, betting on the social media marketing expertise of Mehr and Lopez.