Suntory, the Japanese brewer, spent $13.6 billion to buy Beam, the maker of Jim Beam. In doing so, Suntory has moved further into a business that is as likely to be successful…
courtesy of YouTubeYouTube, Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) huge video site, known at the place you can “broadcast yourself”, held its spot as the largest video website in the U.S. in December, and did…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.A company can become broadly hated if it alienates a large enough group of people. It may frustrate customers with poor service, anger employees with unpleasant working conditions…
The Internet analysts at Merrill Lynch expect mobile usage to grow more than 50% in 2014, with much of this incremental to the sector. The mobile uplift may start to wane in…
courtesy of TwitterShares of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) tumbled 4% Monday following a downgrade to Underweight by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). The stock continues its slide today, dropping another 6.5% with no…
Paul Ausick For the three months ending in November, Apple grew its share of the U.S. smartphone market by 0.5%, according to latest report on the U.S. smartphone market from comScore. Samsung Electronics grew…
When a firm that co-managed an initial public offering (IPO) cuts its rate on the stock that it recently backed, people notice. That is what happened Monday morning with shares of Twitter.
Paul Ausick These are the top analyst upgrades, initiations and positive analyst research calls seen from Wall Street on Monday, January 6.
A lawsuit filed by two Facebook users gets at the heart of what the social media giant does. Its business model depends largely on its ability to target individuals sought by advertisers.
Trey Thoelcke While we wait for next week's report on same-store sales from some of the country's chain stores, we can chew on some data released Thursday morning by IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. The…
Paul Ausick Facebook remains the leader in social media use. As has been the case for several years, two or three other social media continue to jockey behind it. The service that has come…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of AOL, IncThe battle between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for the lead in U.S. unique visitors continued into November. Once again, the portal edged out the search firm–based…
courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.Jack Dorsey, founder and chairman of the board at Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and founder and CEO at electronic payment firm Square Inc., has been elected to…
Paul Ausick In a new research report, the Merrill Lynch team points out that the sector is trading at the steepest discount to the market in its history. It seems that 2014 might be…
Shares of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) traded down in the premarket Thursday morning, following the announcement that the company will have a follow-on stock offering of 70 million shares.
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