Akamai Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) has acquired Canadian firm Blaze Software Inc. for an unspecified amount of cash. In its announcement, Akamai said: The acquisition is expected to complement Akamai’s market-leading site…
Paul Ausick We are entering into the last waves of the normalized quarterly earnings reports for companies with December 31 quarter-end dates, and we are entering the first waves of the earnings reports from…
US markets opened up slightly this morning and have maintained a slight positive tone for most of the day. Today marks the unofficial beginning of another earnings season, with Alcoa kicking things…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Sell from…
US stock markets rallied on the first morning of trading in the new year. Index futures were up sharply and trading zoomed past the mark to rise more than 2%. Strong manufacturing…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Tuesday morning. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Neutral from…
There are several stocks trading more heavily than usual this morning, and also experiencing large gains or drops in share prices. These include RAM Energy Resources Inc. (NASDAQ: RAM), WCA Waste Corp.…
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is flying high this morning. The content acceleration company reported earnings last night that beat expectations and the company is taking a more focused look at management. …
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of American Capital Agency Corp (NASDAQ: AGNC), Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), Acme…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been the king of tech stocks. While Apple’s results still showed rapid earnings and revenue growth, the report disappointed and results were below Wall Street’s expectations. And…
You know the Wall Street rumor mill goes into overdrive from time to time. This is not so much of a “today” issue but an “all of them, right now!” issue. There are…
Aol’s (NYSE: AOL) CEO approaches large investors about a merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters) The IMF says China can weather global financial and economic risks. (Reuters) Wall St. will watch Google…
A drop in price often brings up the “takeover chatter” from blogs, analysts, and news reports. We have seen this discussed recently in Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) where analysts and pundits talk about the…
The pace of stock buyback announcements in the month of August was almost unbelievable. The pace was stronger at the start of the month when earnings were still coming in droves, but…
It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled. What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly plans regardless…
