ThinkstockWhen Chinese Internet company Alibaba announced it would hold an initial public offering, the betting in markets around the world was that the IPO would be the most valuable ever, with the…
cgblaine22 thinkstockMarch 26, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday but equity prices trailed downward all morning, finally going into the red in the early afternoon. If there was any momentum in today’s market…
Paul Ausick These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. They include Carlyle Group, Facebook, Garmin, Sirius XM and Tesla Motors.
Despite the rise of online properties such as Twitter, Pinterest and BuzzFeed, the sites that dominate the list of those most visited by Americans are the portals and search site Google.
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) already made major news and noise when it acquired WhatsApp for a zany sum of $19 billion. Now Mark Zuckerberg is making another large deal. Facebook is acquiring…
Jon C. Ogg When BlackBerry opened up its popular messaging application, BBM, to iOS and Android last year, it more than doubled the user base. The questions is, is there any money in it?
Trey Thoelcke thinkstockMarch 24, 2014: Markets opened slightly higher on Monday but soon took a turn south and spent most of the day solidly down. Biotechs, healthcare, discretionary, and tech stocks were all weaker…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockSpending on mobile advertising worldwide more than doubled in 2013 to $17.96 billion and 2014 growth is reckoned at 75% to a global total of $31.5 billion. The 2014 total represents about…
Wikimedia CommonsGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) continues to keep its dominant share of the U.S. search market taking 67.5% last month. Try as they might, its competitors have not been able to make…
Douglas A. McIntyre LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner received the top grade in Glassdoor's new "Highest Rated CEOs 2014." The rating is based on employee answers to the question, "Do you approve of the way your…
Howard Schultz, the ambitious founder and CEO of Starbucks, believes the coffee company can have a market value of $100 billion, about twice its current level. The goal is ambitious, but Schultz…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.There is a debate among some analysts over whether Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is worth buying or may be turning into a sell. On Wednesday, J.P. Morgan analyst Douglas…
cgblaine22 Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov reportedly has sold shares in Apple and Facebook to focus on Alibaba and other tech investments in China. He also may expand his stakes in Russian assets.
thinkstockMarch 17, 2014: Markets opened higher on Monday very likely breathing a sigh of relief that the situation in Crimea did not turn into a military confrontation. There’s also a feeling that…
Facebook was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Argus on Monday. The call is not all that bad on the surface, and Argus even maintained its a Buy rating on its long-term…
Jon C. Ogg 