courtesy of NetflixNetflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) management said the reason part of its service was out on Christmas Eve was that the technology and hardware owned by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which powers the video firm’s streaming product, were…
ThinkstockBest CEO lists can be based on dozens of factors. For public companies, the best metric is usually share price. It is hard for chief executives to be considered very good if…
ThinkstockHulu, the streaming video company jointly owned by The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS), expects revenues of $695 million in 2012, up 65%…
ThinkstockGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) dominates Internet search. When comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) posted its October U.S. search market numbers, Google had a whopping 66.7% of the total market share. What if Google decides that…
ThinkstockLive sports programming commands the highest subscriber rates in the cable and satellite industry, and the competition for leverage in live sports programming is only going to get fiercer. Attracting more viewers…
Paul Ausick thinkstockChina posts weak exports numbers, a sign that its economic improvement is uneven. (Reuters) Investors say they will sell about $39 billion in Greek debt back to the government. (Reuters) Yahoo! Inc.…
Fortune is out with its top 10 stock picks for 2013. The list was divulged on CNBC late on Wednesday afternoon and was based on a survey of fund managers based upon…
thinkstockTen major media companies control most of the news content in America. Each of these companies reaches millions of people. The five largest reach more than 50 million people each. Discussions about…
ThinkstockThousands of websites “live blogged” the election’s progress, or it may have been tens of thousands. Hundreds offered original live TV from their own modest studios, which covered the same details of the election…
Trying to figure out the impact of tablets on a how a given person spends time connected to the rest of the world requires a lot of patience and a sharp eye…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened flat this morning following a disappointing quarterly report from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) last night (more coverage here) which weighed on Asian tech stocks particularly.…
Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) reported third-quarter 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The cable operator posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.46 on revenues of $16.5 billion. In the…
Paul Ausick The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following the report on new jobless claims, which rose by 369,000, less than the expected 375,000 (our coverage here). In Europe, GDP…
A look at the websites that have the largest audiences in America shows that Web 1.0 properties, launched in the 1990s before broadband was widely available, led the list by audience size.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday. Today’s calls are light perhaps due to the Columbus Day holiday. Alcatel-Lucent…
