courtesy of Groupon Inc.Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) had such an awful performance on Friday that it should make any rational investor fear more than just a slightly weak to mixed earnings report. Main Street…
ThinkstockThe $45 billion buyout that Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) offered Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWC) chopped the legs right out from under Charter Communications Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CHTR) offer of around $37 billion. But Charter’s…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.After Friday’s announcement that G Asset Management had offered $22 a share for a 51% stake in Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS), or failing that, $5 a share for…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) posted patches to its iOS mobile operating systems on Friday to fix a hole in iOS 6 and iOS 7 that would have allowed “an attacker with…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Maybe it’s because Saturday is launch day in Japan for the PlayStation 4 from Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), but the company’s hot-selling new game console is practically non-existent on retailers’ shelves…
ThinkstockHarvard Business School tops many ratings of business schools in the United States and even the world. Its graduates are paid more than the graduates of almost all, if not all, of the major…
ThinkstockThe biotech market has been on fire this year, and there is every indication that things will continue. With huge binary events right around the corner, and many of the top companies with clinical…
It will be interesting to see ultimately the overall effect on the stocks that were cut to a Sell. One thing is for sure, given the names that are hitting the Sell lists, analysts…
Most of the top firms we cover on Wall Street specifically named the Technology sector as a top sector to own in 2014. From the big bulge brackets to the super regional firms, they…
ThinkstockIt has been six years since the global recession began to ravage Europe which has been the last major region to start to escape the downturn. Other than Ireland, the hardest hit nations were…
thinkstockFebruary 21, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday, but by the end of the day the major indexes failed to stay above the break-even line. Today’s report on existing home sales was weaker than…
Wikimedia CommonsOnline retailer Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has merged its Amazon Prime and Lovefilm instant video services in the U.K and Germany and prices will go up beginning next week. Amazon’s CFO said on…
Central Connecticut State University examined how well Americans used their literacy skills in the nation's largest cities. Based on their findings, these are America's most and least literate cities.
ThinkstockNatural gas prices climbed above $6 per million BTUs on Wednesday for the first time in 5 years. The price peaked at around $6.30 in intraday trading on Thursday but has fallen below $6…
Shares of Emeritus and Brookdale Senior Living were rising nicely Friday as investors cheered the merger of the big assisted-living companies and bet that more deals are ahead.