courtesy of Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has released its second-quarter earnings report showing that sales rose by 53% year over year to $1.813 billion in the quarter. Earnings came in at…
Jon C. Ogg July 24, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following upbeat estimates for eurozone flash PMI readings. In Asia, China’s PMI came in lower than expected, leading to more worries about…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) developers site was taken down by another in a long series of hacks of corporate and government websites. If any company ought to have the ability to…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsNo less a person than Biz Stone, a founder of Twitter, suggested that one of the ways to revive faltering Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is to offer an…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockIn the world to tech, there is old tech, current tech and future tech. Old tech got spanked this week, as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) proved that its Windows PC business continues…
ThinkstockIt should come as no surprise to investors that Internet usage has skyrocketed in the past 10 years. The smartphone, which seemed like a luxury five years ago, has become almost ubiquitous,…
ThinkstockThe average wage of a U.S. worker was $1,000 per week in the fourth quarter of 2012, or 4.7% higher from the same time in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor…
Mike Sauter ThinkstockFabless semiconductor firm Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD) and China’s Tsinghua Unigroup announced today that the two companies have agreed to a merger under which Tsinghua will pay $31 per American depositary…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockIt looks like Internet stocks are going to be back in focus on Wednesday. Citigroup’s Mark May, who is the former Internet analyst at Barclays, has issued new coverage of key internet…
ThinkstockClaiming to be the world’s largest digital coupon marketplace, RetailMeNot Inc. has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) and set an offering price range of $20 to $22 a share. The…
bitcoin.orgThey say that there is an ETF strategy for just about anything. Now that Bitcoin has gotten a lot of coverage there is news that the famed Winklevoss twins, made famous by…
Jon C. Ogg Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsBased on the rumor that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) will start the equivalent of a news feed (Reader) for its members, the market ought to be trading the…
Douglas A. McIntyre thinkstockShortly after markets opened this morning, the DJIA was down more than 1%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were off even more. Index futures were even lower, so maybe the…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.People who believe that the news is sacred and that readers should decide which news is important and which is not will be hit by another new media tool…
Douglas A. McIntyre U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after yesterday’s bloodbath. There was no economic data of note released today in either Asia or the U.S. In Europe, the eurozone’s current account surplus…
