courtesy of Facebook Inc.A Chinese military operation may be the source of many of the major hacks on U.S. cyber interests. (Reuters) Burger King Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: BKW) takes its Twitter account…
ThinkstockMarin Software, maker of cloud-based digital advertising management platform, has filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launching the company’s quest for an initial public offering (IPO).…
courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.No company has a better reputation among American consumers than Amazon.com. The online retailer pushed Apple out of the the top slot this year, according to a…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardWall St. must see something in Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) that has been missing for years. HP shares have risen 30% over the past three months, despite a string of…
ThinkstockThe difference between professional services reviews posted to Angie’s List Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) and book reviews posted at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) or the number of video views counted at Google Inc.’s…
courtesy of Time WarnerIf most of Time Inc., the world’s largest and most famous magazine publisher, may be sold, then so can any other pillar of old media. Rumors are that relatively…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is a troubled company under questionable leadership where IPO investors have been crushed. Long gone are the days of a $6 billion or $7 billion…
Wikimedia CommonsOne of the worst-kept secrets in the technology world was finally confirmed today. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is building an Internet TV set-top box that it says will launch by the…
courtesy of BlackBerryWhen Research In Motion unveiled its long-delayed BlackBerry 10, it also announced it was changing its name to BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). CEO Thorsten Heins argued that the new name reflects…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt may sell up to $2.5 billion of his shares, although the action has been overblown by the press. The Rule 10b5-1 plan allows him to make…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockThe Motorola unit of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) lost 13 patent claims it had lodged against Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) way back in 2010 when Motorola was still an independent company. The…
Outerwall Inc.When Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) reported earnings last night, the owner of the Redbox DVD-rental machines beat earnings estimates by 27%, but net income was down by the same amount for…
thinkstockSoutheastern Asset Management, Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) largest shareholder, is unhappy with the price of the LBO. (Reuters) The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 has been approved for test flights. (Reuters) BMW says…
U.S. equity markets opened flat this morning, largely due to a slew of data from Europe that essentially cancelled any good news with an equal dollop of bad. U.S. unemployment data came…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV) started as Neutral at Credit Suisse. Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:…
