ThinkstockShort sellers may have many reasons to be short a stock. One reason could be as a hedge against other positions, but often this is simply because short sellers are betting against…
bfishshadow via Wikimedia CommonsShort sellers continue to hold huge positions in the same handful of Nasdaq stocks, but among them, short interest in Sirius, the Nasdaq-traded stock with the largest short position,…
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, aka E3, officially opens Tuesday, but the big players in the world of video games have the honor of announcing their new lineups early.
For the first time in eight years, Sony has nabbed the lead in video game console sales from rival Nintendo. Sony sold 18.7 million game consoles in its most recent fiscal year.
Microsoft launches its new Xbox One, which is a full $100 less than the earlier model -- and the same price as Sony's PlayStation 4.
24/7 Wall St. wanted to look at the leaders and laggards in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It turns out that as of Friday's closing bell, seven of the 30 Dow stocks…
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) kicks off Tuesday in Los Angeles, and the first big deal of the week is the Microsoft news conference scheduled for 12:30 p.m. ET on Monday.
Apple may be about to enter the video game console market. Metal, the new graphics API Apple unveiled on Monday, strongly suggests that the iPhone-maker is taking core gaming seriously. Industry observers…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 200 points this past week and set a new all-time high of 16,924.30 on Friday before closing at 16,924.28. This is a good time…
thinkstockJune 5, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday, took a short-lived trip south, and then tacked a nice gain on all three major indexes. New claims for jobless benefits posted their lowest…
Amazon.com is supposed to be releasing a new smartphone on June 18, 2014. The question is how Amazon can compete in the space, and who it is going after.
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Thursday, June 5, 2014. They include Apple, Lululemon, Microsoft, NBG, Twitter and Whole Foods.
ThinkstockThe average U.S. TV viewer may regularly watch just 17 of the hundreds of channels available, but that average viewer’s consumption of TV is skyrocketing. The main agents of the rapidly rising…
Microsoft plans to release a version of its Office software suite -- optimized for touch screens -- for Google’s Android operating system. As consumers increasingly embrace non-Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office stands…
For the three months ending in April, Samsung Electronics gained 1% of market share from Apple and other smartphone makers to grow its share of the U.S. smartphone market to 27.7%.
