These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Monday, June 23, 2014. They include AMD, Dish Network, Facebook, Nordstrom and SunPower.
ThinkstockThe way people get their news is changing. In a recent survey, one-fifth now claim that their mobile phone is the primary access point for news. Nearly 40% of consumers of online…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockOver the past six months, daily usage of health and fitness apps has grown by 62%, a growth rate that is 87% faster than the mobile apps industry as a whole. That…
Paul Ausick According to many news reports, Facebook's service is down around the world. So far, the company has not addressed the situation, nor rumors that the collapse is worldwide.
Douglas A. McIntyre With Facebook growing faster but trading cheaper, the Cowen team believes that the company's better quality growth is likely to persist. But the firm has been very negative on Twitter.
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockAfter weeks of sell-offs, social media shares have started to recover. Another sign they are back in favor — their short interests for the period that ended May 30. Short sellers decreased…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockIf anyone wants to know how skilled hackers are, both in terms of stealing personal data and corporate secrets, they only need to look at the cyberattack on the U.S. military in…
Douglas A. McIntyre For the three months ending in April, Samsung Electronics gained 1% of market share from Apple and other smartphone makers to grow its share of the U.S. smartphone market to 27.7%.
Google is reported to be spending $1 billion on development of a fleet of up to 180 small satellites to provide Internet access to parts of the world that currently lack connectivity.
Paul Ausick courtesy of TwitterWhen Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) acquired mobile ad exchange MoPub last September the microblogging company got a real-time exchange that allows advertisers to automate their mobile ad buying. Today ad…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockSometimes strange things happen in local court cases against large multinational companies that are based in the United States and elsewhere. Reports are out, sourcing the ISNA news outlet, that a judge…
Jon C. Ogg Google further cemented is position as the number one Web property in the United States based on April data. comScore reports that Google sites had 192.3 million unique visitors.
Douglas A. McIntyre These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday, May 22, 2014. They include CenturyLink, Facebook, Keurig Green Mountain, SodaStream and Sprint.
Jon C. Ogg For all the discussion about the bright future of online video advertising and subscriber-based premium video delivered over the Internet, Google's YouTube towers over all other video sites.
Douglas A. McIntyre There is a perception among businesses and people that nothing kept online is secure anymore. A major cyberattack on Facebook would only serve to tremendously reinforce that.
Douglas A. McIntyre 