Amazon.com announced Monday the availability of its Fire TV streaming video set-top box. Fire TV has its work cut out for it in a field with both established players and other recent…
ThinkstockA recent survey of chief information officers by UBS shows that expected information technology (IT) budget growth this year should be right-in-line with prior surveys. Most importantly, more than 60% of the…
ThinkstockWhen the S&P 500 index rises more than 25% in a year, you have to figure that some of the largest U.S. corporations are doing pretty well. And you would be right.…
thinkstockMarch 31, 2014: Markets opened higher on Monday even though the report on Chicago PMI was weaker than expected. Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen gave a speech where she clarified her views on…
thinkstockMarch 28, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday on hopes for more government stimulus to the economies of Japan and Europe. There might also have been some investors looking to pick up…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Friday, March 28, 2014. They include Citigroup, Lululemon, Microsoft, Oracle and SolarCity.
thinkstockMarch 27, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday even following an upwardly revised estimate of 2.6% growth for U.S. GDP in the fourth quarter and an unexpected drop in new claims for…
Consumers have been able to use Microsoft's key Office programs on the Mac, but CEO Satya Nadella's press briefing on Thursday said the new Office for iPad is available for download now.
GameStop reported disappointing fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened on Thursday morning, despite a boost from the launch of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
thinkstockMarch 26, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday but equity prices trailed downward all morning, finally going into the red in the early afternoon. If there was any momentum in today’s market…
Paul Ausick Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsWith volatility edging ever higher, investors have to look for at least a synthetic hedge to help them should there be a sizable correction. One of the best…
Despite the rise of online properties such as Twitter, Pinterest and BuzzFeed, the sites that dominate the list of those most visited by Americans are the portals and search site Google.
Douglas A. McIntyre Advanced Micro Devices' leadership in graphics was made evident when its CPUs were selected by both Sony for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft for the Xbox One video game console refresh cycles…
ThinkstockSpending on mobile advertising worldwide more than doubled in 2013 to $17.96 billion and 2014 growth is reckoned at 75% to a global total of $31.5 billion. The 2014 total represents about…
MicrosoftIt didn’t take very long for Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to erase the $100 price premium it charged for the new Xbox One compared with Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4. All…
