As a larger and larger portion of retail sales in the U.S. move online, customer service has become essential to e-commerce businesses that want to attract shoppers and keep them. ... Read Full Story »
These ETF products which trade in the U.S. but are composed of a bunch of internationally listed shares are often a bit sluggish on their trading. Now we have a new ... Read Full Story »
We have many big events to watch for in the coming week at American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications ... Read Full Story »
How fast is "faster" broadband and who wants it at any speed? The FCC has proposed spending tens of billions of dollars on broadening the high-speed internet infrastructure in the ... Read Full Story »
These are the top ten pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research this Thursday morning: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Cut to Hold at Argus. DuPont (DD) Raised to ... Read Full Story »
Unfortunately there is no real clear trend in the Internet sector stocks in the short selling from mid-August to late August as you will see below.Internet ... Read Full Story »
There may be one of the stranger mergers out there today in Internet land, as United Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTD) is acquiring FTD Group, Inc. (NYSE: FTD) in a merger ... Read Full Story »
Thursday is going to be an interesting earnings day if you follow the few independent Internet Service Providers (ISP's). EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK) and United Online Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTD) both ... Read Full Story »
These are not the only important analyst calls out there, but these are the top analyst calls that 24/7 Wall St. is focusing on:Affymetric (AFFX) raised to Buy at UBS.Citigroup ... Read Full Story »
United Online (UNTD) has cancelled the much anticipated IPO of its Classmates.com operations. According to the company, Classmates Media Corporation, intends to withdraw its S-1 registration statement as previously filed ... Read Full Story »
This week we expect the pricing of the Calssmates.com (NASDAQ:CLAS) parent Classmates Media Corp. IPO and partial spin-off from United Online (NASDAQ:UNTD). We have noted recently and before that this ... Read Full Story »
United Online (NASDAQ:UNTD) has definitely enjoyed a nice run into the upcoming partial spin-off and IPO of its Classmates.com unit. This spin-off is what has contributed to huge gains in ... Read Full Story »
United Online (UNTD) is in a crummy business. It sells dial-up internet service to about five million online customers. It is the business that AOL exited last year. Broadband has ... Read Full Story »
According to Reuters, profits at UBS rose to $4.7 billion in Q2, but the bank said the difficult markets could hurt second half results.Reuters writes that Wal-Mart's (WMT) Japanese unit, ... Read Full Story »