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6 Mergers That Ought to Happen
24/7 Wall St. takes a look at six potential mergers that investors and activist investors would love to see in the months or years ahead.
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Consumer Electronics
Apple to Take Android Phones as Trade-Ins
Apple is planning to begin accepting smartphones that use the Android platform as trade-ins on new iPhones.
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Consumer Electronics
Can Apple Sell 100 Million iPhones?
Apple's success this quarter will turn much more on iPhone sales than the launch of the Apple Watch or early demand for it.
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Technology
Why Is the CFO of Google Retiring at 52?
Wikimedia CommonsGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has made a very small disclosure after the close, The internet search giant disclosed in an SEC filing that its Chief Financial Officer was announcing plans to…
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Consumer Electronics
The Timex Alternative to Apple Watch
Timex, America's iconic watch brand known for "it takes a licking and keeps on ticking," has launched a smartwatch as it tries to elbow into a market that presumably will be dominated…
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Technology
The $270 Billon Cloud Computing Market
With every major tech company in the world chasing part of the cloud computing market, what are they fighting for? Close to $300 billion.
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Investing
9 Well-Established Companies That Just Refuse to Pay Dividends
24/7 Wall St. has identified nine solid companies that are on very stable ground but that just refuse to pay dividends to their shareholders.
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Media
Big Companies Still Cannot Find Success on Twitter
No single company has enough followers on Twitter to crack the list of the top 50 most followed. Google leads the list at number 103.
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Companies and Brands
Samsung’s Startling Market Share Decline in Q4
When Apple reported fourth-quarter iPhone sales of more than 74 million units worldwide, the company overtook rival Samsung Electronics as the share leader in the smartphone market.
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Consumer Electronics
Just How Badly iOS Gobbles Up Android Profit Share
Every report we see on smartphone operating systems puts Android at the top of list. Where it counts -- the bottom line -- Apple is picking up all the marbles.
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Consumer Electronics
2 Billion People Own Smartphones
In what has to be good news for large smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, smartphone ownership rose to 2 billion last year.
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Companies and Brands
Smartphone, Tablet Gaming Far Outpaces Handheld Console Games
More than a third of that total of more than 2.8 million portable devices are used for gaming: more than a billion in fact.
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Technology
5 Tech Stocks to Buy With Exposure Outside the US
A new research note from Jefferies makes the case that it is time for stocks with international exposure to begin to outperform.
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Technology
Google Shares Stage a Comeback
Google was one of the worst-performing huge tech company stocks over the past year, but in 2015 its shares have made a turnaround.
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Media
Is Pinterest Worth $11 Billion?
Social media scrapbooker Pinterest is in talks with investors to raise $500 million in a round of funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.
