Amazon’s Smartphone Can’t Compete With Apple and Samsung
Smartphones are universally available in the United States for prices that are as low as free, so people who without smartphones almost certainly do not want one or cannot afford one.
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Newest first · Page 16J.P. Morgan Very Positive on Selected Momentum Software Stocks
In a new research report, the J.P. Morgan software analysts detail their meetings with key executives after they took a trip to Silicon Valley to sit down with numerous software companies.
Amazon Launches Streaming Music Service
The rumors that Amazon.com would start a streaming music service are true. It is part of the e-commerce company's Prime bundle of free shipping, instant video and the Kindle lender's library.
Three Top Software Stocks to Buy Now for Growth
In a new research report, the software analysts at UBS say they have spoken to clients and investors who have signaled to them that they may be ready to rotate back into the top…
Few Americans Trust Online Data Safety
After a series of high-profile data breaches, it should not be a shock that only one in five Americans have "a lot of trust" in businesses they regularly interact with to keep their personal…
Hacking Anxiety Grows as U.S. Hit in South Korea
ThinkstockIf anyone wants to know how skilled hackers are, both in terms of stealing personal data and corporate secrets, they only need to look at the cyberattack on the U.S. military in South Korea.…
China Lists U.S. Companies “Spying” For Washington–People’s Daily Article
China used the People’s Daily to announce U.S. companies that the government claims are spies for the American government. The text of the article Companies asked by Washington to use online services to spy on customers Foreign technology services providers such as Google and Apple can become cybersecuritythreats to Chinese users, security analysts said, one week after China announced that it willput in place a security review on imported technology equipment. Other major tech companies, such as Yahoo, Cisco, Microsoft and Facebook, were requiredby the US National Security Agency to transfer their users’ information, according to WanTao, founder of Intelligence Defense Friends Laboratory, an independent institutionfocusing on cybersecurity in China. Wan said that online services have become a major way for the US to steal informationglobally. Ning Jiajun, a senior researcher at the Advisory Committee for State Informatization, said, “Previously, the US asked companies to install wiretapping software on their technologicalproducts, but if users found and shut down related functions, its ‘plan’ would fail,” he said. For instance, information on a Chinese organization can be stolen when it places an orderon an international shopping website, he said. With technologies such as cloud computing and big data getting popular, information can becollected and analyzed immediately, which means the damage can be much greater andmore difficult to prevent, analysts said. “It can be said that those who master online services can get more information incyberspace,” said Du Yuejin, director at the National Engineering Laboratory for CyberSecurity Emergency Response Technology. Last month, China’s Internet Media Research Center issued a report saying the NSAmakes use of large technology companies for its wiretapping plans, including Prism, whichwas unmasked by former NSA intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, asking them to collectinformation on their users and urging them to hand in the data regularly.…
Google Encrypted Gmail–The Official Announcement
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced a new version of Gmail which it claims is encrypted in a way which will give users a remarkable level of privacy The official blog post When you mail a letter…
Samsung Takes On Android
Samsung has decided that Google has become too powerful in the portable device consumer electronics business. Google's Android has steamrolled the smartphone industry.
Can Apple Return to All-Time High of $700?
After a year and a half of on-and-off skepticism about its prospects, Apple's shares could breach their all-time high of $705.07 reached on September 21, 2012. The stock topped $644 last week.
Would Mark Zuckerberg Appear in Court in Iran?
ThinkstockSometimes strange things happen in local court cases against large multinational companies that are based in the United States and elsewhere. Reports are out, sourcing the ISNA news outlet, that a judge in Iran…
Video Game Sales Up Big Again in April: Three Top Stocks to Buy
ThinkstockThe consumer market research firm NPD group says the numbers are in for April sales of video games, and they are up big. Sales grew a whopping 17% for the month and were way…
Will Yahoo! Buy Yelp?
Yahoo! has acquired privately held Blink for an undisclosed sum. Now that Yahoo! is about to juice up its war chest in the coming IPO of Alibaba, CEO Marissa Mayer could take another look…
Battered Security Software Stocks That May Have 70% Upside
ThinkstockSometimes despite good earnings and outlooks, great stocks get caught up in sell-offs like the one we experienced from late February through much of April. What started as biotech sell-off turned into an “anything…
Yahoo! Buys Blink
In one of the few tech M&A deals that was not leaked well ahead of the transaction, Yahoo! has bought mobile message app company Blink. Even Blink had little to offer in detail.