Amazon.com Inc.At a press event Wednesday in Seattle, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the company’s “Fire” phone, a 4.7-inch smartphone that is entering a sector dominated by Samsung Electronics…
Smartphones are universally available in the United States for prices that are as low as free, so people who without smartphones almost certainly do not want one or cannot afford one.
Wednesday's expected announcement of a new smartphone from Amazon.com is also reported to reveal that the online retailer has signed a deal with AT&T as the exclusive carrier for the phone.
It is a little difficult to see the logic behind a decision by independent recording labels to refuse to sign a new licensing agreement with YouTube's yet-to-be launched music subscription service.
ThinkstockNuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) owes its fortunes back to the days of Lernout & Hauspie in the 1990s. Now the independent speech recognition leader is seeing its shares surge on reports…
Amazon.com has released numbers showing that Kindle Fire HDX customers who used the Mayday button to get customer service enjoy a response time of an average of 9.75 seconds.
A new report from the Portfolio Strategy team at Oppenheimer makes the case that large cap names are the only place to be now and going forward.
AppleIn its first quarter of fiscal 2014, Apple Inc. | AAPL Price Prediction (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported selling 51.03 million iPhones. The company’s second quarter, which ended in March, saw total sales fall…
Paul Ausick Samsung ElectronicsSamsung Electronics introduced its latest tablets on Thursday, the Galaxy Tab S in 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch models. Both have higher resolution displays than the iPad Air and the iPad Mini from…
BMW GroupIn what the German carmaker calls the “first-ever, mass-produced integration” with a car’s on-board entertainment system, BMW announced on Thursday that ConnectedDrive-equipped BMW and Mini cars will be able to add…
Paul Ausick These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Thursday, June 12, 2014. They include Apache, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Qualcomm and Sprouts Farmers Market.
The rumors that Amazon.com would start a streaming music service are true. It is part of the e-commerce company's Prime bundle of free shipping, instant video and the Kindle lender's library.
As criticism that it has failed to innovate is on the rise, Apple is responding by taking more of its marketing into its own hands, according to Ad Age. Apple can use…
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…
24/7 Wall St. has updated how the price targets from Wall Street analysts have changed as a result Apple's seven-for-one stock split, which has shares trading under $100 for the first time…
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