Any time a major company files for an initial public offering (IPO) there will be skeptics. All companies have to cite “Risk Factors” in their IPO filings with the Securities and Exchange…
Jon C. Ogg The government has decided to shut down, and investors and the public are trying to figure out what all of this really means. Is this good politics or bad? Is it good…
TwitterRumors spread that Twitter would file its initial public offering (IPO) papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week. The likelihood of that has died as the federal government prepares…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NYSE: FB) has long been up against a simple problem with Wall Street. Investors who want to know if its revenue can ever reach a point at…
Douglas A. McIntyre Jon OggStocks have pulled back for four days in a row now, and investors and traders alike are looking at which stocks they ought to buy, sell or avoid. 24/7 Wall St.…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has managed a miracle turnaround from what was nothing short of a disastrous initial public offering. Mark Zuckerberg has turned into a chief executive officer…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggStocks have seen some profit taking off of their recent all-time highs. Now investors and traders are wondering which stocks they should buy and which ones they should sell or avoid.…
FunnyTimes.comSocial media is not dead, but the problems that many social media users have experienced may be starting to drive out the fringe users. This could spell big trouble for some of…
Jon C. Ogg courtesy of YouTubeThe largest Internet companies have described video content as critical to their futures. Video advertising carries a huge premium to the banner ads that have dominated the industry’s revenue stream…
ThinkstockCybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE) and advertising technology company Rocket Fuel Inc. (NASDAQ: FUEL) both launched initial public offerings Friday morning, and both are posting share price gains of more than…
Jon OggStocks have been in rally mode for going on three weeks, and investors should be considering which stocks to buy and which stocks to sell or avoid. Each morning, 24/7 Wall…
Leapfrog.comFor all the hundreds of millions of apps and the billions of downloads from the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store and Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play, the same apps dominate the…
courtesy of Yahoo!Look back a short 10 to 15 years ago, and the Internet and media landscape we are so familiar with today barely existed. Carriers had not rolled out fiber-optic networks…
Wall Street is a very fickle mistress. Analysts that work on Wall Street often cannot see the forest for the trees. They are more concerned about defending their reputation than actually doing…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaWarren Buffett holds an estimated $56.5 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock — the most valuable stock holdings of any active chief executive officer. Oracle CEO Larry…
