The 10 Most Expensive Concert Tickets
ThinkstockIconic rock bands are in demand more than ever and are commanding ticket prices at least as expensive as the hottest current artists. Five of the top 10 bands with the most expensive average…
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courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has created a five day, five night iTunes music festival which will run for the five days of SXSW. It will run from March 11 to March 15.…
Boeing Finds Wing Cracks on 787 Dreamliner
courtesy Boeing Co.In the latest of a string of problems found on its 787 Dreamliner, The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) said Friday evening that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has told Boeing that hairline cracks have…
Icahn Adds Facebook Account to His Social Media Arsenal
ThinkstockActivist investor Carl Icahn said on Friday that Icahn Enterprises LP (NASDAQ: IEP) will begin using its Facebook page to disclose material non-public information. Icahn already uses Twitter and a website (www.shareholderssquaretable.com) to communicate…
Canada OKs First Pipeline to Carry Crude From Alberta to Montreal
ThinkstockThe Canadian National Energy Board on Thursday approved a plan by Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) to reverse the east-to-west flow of crude oil and permit the company’s Line 9B pipeline to transport crude from…
T-Mobile Raises Unlimited Data Plan to $80
Courtesy BlackBerryOne of the keys to the recent success of T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) has been its aggressive pricing. The company’s management believes it can draw customers for the number four wireless provider by…
Analysts Fight Over Coal Stocks: Low Downside, High Upside
ThinkstockFriday brought about a big drop in the coal miners. Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) tanked after Goldman Sachs downgraded the coal player from an already cautious Neutral rating down to a Sell…
Why the FireEye Secondary Offering May Have Been a Gift
FireEye's stock performance on Friday was awful, and a secondary offering punished believers who had chased the stock up. But FireEye also may have given long-term investors a gift of chance.
Low-Priced Biotech Stocks That Could Double (or More)
ThinkstockThe latter part of the week was difficult for the biotech and specialty pharmaceutical sector. Unsettling news out of Washington, D.C., on potential changes in the taxation of the sector let the selling roll.…
The 4 Stocks That Dominated the Market on Friday
thinkstockMarch 7, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday but the Nasdaq quickly turned south and spent the rest of the day in the red. As a group tech stocks were down 0.6% in mid-afternoon…
Is McDonald’s Setting Investors Up to Hike Wages for Employees?
Wikimedia CommonsWhen McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD filed its Form 10-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, the company listed a new risk factor to its business. The company said that its…
Dutch Company to Offer Single News Stories on iTunes Model
ThinkstockEver since the early days of the World Wide Web, people have talked about making individual news stories available for very small amounts of money. The so-called micro-payments idea never took off because it…
Rio Tinto Speculation Boosts Turquoise Hill Prospects
Mining giant Rio Tinto already owns 50.8% of Turquoise Hill Resources, and speculation that Rio Tinto will buy the other 49.2% has boosted Turquoise Hill's share price by nearly 13%.
New Visa-MasterCard Payment Security Group to Focus on Technology
In the wake of recent high-profile data breaches, Visa and MasterCard said Friday that they have formed a new group aimed at improving payment system security. The new group will include banks, retailers and…
Privacy Group Challenges Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp
Public interest advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint on Thursday with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opposing the recent $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp by Facebook.