Consumer electronics companies sold 195 million tablets last year. Unfortunately for Apple, which virtually invented the category, the share its iOS had of the global market dropped. Apple is desperate for the…
ThinkstockVolvo may nearly be out of business, but it has come up with one of the most unique features available from the world’s car companies. It can deliver food to its vehicles.…
The World Mobile Congress currently going on in Barcelona will generate some surprises, but Nokia's announcement of a cheap, Android-based smartphone is not one of them. The phone has been rumored to…
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…
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…
In a stock move that is starting to defy gravity, social media giant Facebook has eclipsed the market value of two longtime stalwart members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average: AT&T and…
Research firm Brand Keys released on Wednesday its 2014 customer loyalty index for online service brands. The firm tracks 70 brands in seven categories. See how top brands like Amazon, Google and…
In a move may allow Amazon.com to get ahead of the spread of Bitcoin, it is starting to make its Amazon Coins program available to mobile users. Is this a coincidence on…
cgblaine22 Among the many extraordinary ways Amazon.com has to draw consumers to its sites, and to get those consumers to spend money, is its trade-in program. Amazon has turned used items that might…
Douglas A. McIntyre Dublin, Ireland-based King Digital Entertainment, makers of the wildly popular mobile game Candy Crush Saga, has filed a Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering…
Apple sat atop a new list from Brand Finance of the world's most valuable brands. However, rival Samsung's value surged as it gained on and then took the lead over Apple in…
courtesy of ComcastThe announced $45 billion merger between Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) has raised a lot of concerns among consumers that the combined company will…
thinkstockFebruary 12, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday, but not by much. A report on a big jump in China’s trade balance from earlier in the day may or may not have…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may finally be on the verge of changing its method of acting like a non-profit entity. With margins running at close to zero, or sometimes negative, now it…
Jon C. Ogg These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, February 12, 2014. They include Amazon, Control4, Ocwen Financial, Sprint and Veeco Instruments.
