ThinkstockVarious sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew more than 163 million unique U.S. viewers in November. AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) drew 73 million viewers and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Paul Ausick Jon Ogg in NYCStocks are wanting to challenge their all-time highs again going into year-end, and investors have to figure out how to position their portfolios for 2014. 24/7 Wall St. reviews…
ThinkstockUpdate: 10.25 AM 12/17/2013. The reports about a new Facebook ad product have turned out to true. They will run automatically in user news feeds, but the sound in the ads will…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of TwitterJust six weeks after acquiring mobile advertising platform MoPub, Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is launching a native advertising platform for mobile apps. What that means is that the ad will…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockArgus research is truly considered independent, meaning the firm has no investment banking relationships with public companies that would cloud its judgment. This is a key reason we value its research. The firm…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsFacebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is getting the wish that many index investors have been hoping would happen. In fact, many index traders were expecting that Facebook would be…
Jon C. Ogg Wikimedia CommonsThere are several research firms and employee review websites that publish lists of the best places for people to work. The latest of these is from Glassdoor, the jobs and career…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockTwitter Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TWTR) shares, despite worries that it has no sustainable revenue model, have outperformed those of LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) over the past month. Incidentally,…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockWhat could unite the world’s leading technology giants, including Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)? Turns out…
Trey Thoelcke courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in October, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) grew its share of the U.S. smartphone market by 0.2% compared with the three month period ending in…
ThinkstockSince June Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) share of apps revenue has increased from 30% to 37% at the expense of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its App Store. Apple’s share of revenue…
ThinkstockAs if there weren’t enough reminders for Internet users to frequently change their passwords, this week came news that more than 2 million accounts on some of the most popular social media…
Trey Thoelcke ThinkstockWith the huge performance and sales on Cyber Monday of almost $2.3 billion, topping Black Friday’s $2 billion, more and more advertisers are moving their budgets to target Internet sales. This is…
ThinkstockOnline shopping on Cyber Monday lived up to its billing, topping Black Friday’s online sales of around $2 billion with a new record of $2.29 billion. That is very close to an…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockAt noon ET on Black Friday, online sales are up 7% compared with the same period a year ago and the average order value this year is $142.33. The data is collected…
