courtesy of ZyngaResults that were less than awful and a new CEO helped shares of Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) and Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) to move up from abysmal lows. However, neither…
ThinkstockLost in the frenzy of news coverage about the purchase of the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) flagship by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos is whether Amazon itself is doing…
Stock splits have long been cheered by the investing community. After all, this gives retail investors the chance to get back in a stock at a more reasonable share price. You may…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe flagship of New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) and The Wall Street Journal each ran lengthy articles about how Jeff Bezos could transform the flagship…
The world of media convergence gets stranger and stranger by the month. Old media wants to be new media, but now it seems that the billionaires want to control the world of…
thinkstockWhere you come down in the current debate (war?) over which industry will control the living room TV set depends largely on whether you believe that entertainment is a top-down or a…
ThinkstockWhat big city daily is not for sale, or has been sold already? The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has not parted with its flagship. However, the company probably would get very little…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has announced that Jeff Bezos is paying $250 million to acquire the Post’s newspaper publishing businesses, which of course includes…
Jon C. Ogg JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Department of Justice today submitted a proposed remedy to the federal court that will issue penalties on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) next week following the court’s finding in…
ThinkstockVery little in the Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) “Nation’s Top Ten Consumer Complaints” was unexpected. The results of the survey show how hard it may be to operate in some of the businesses in which…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which announced a loss in its most recent quarter, will add 5,000 new workers, as CEO Jeff Bezos dares Wall Street to desert him. It will not. As…
July 26, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on a day when the only U.S. economic data of note was the revised University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters consumer sentiment index, which…
ThinkstockWall Street’s first reaction to the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) earnings release was that its extraordinary revenue increase of 22% was as astonishingly great as it was unexpected. The second was that…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares have defied gravity, and maybe even defied logic, for so long that it is almost just too hard to criticize the company each time it reports earnings.…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockSales of J.K. Rowling’s new crime novel are up 507,000% according to the BBC. The book, titled “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” was written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) shows…
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