In a stock move that is starting to defy gravity, social media giant Facebook has eclipsed the market value of two longtime stalwart members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average: AT&T and…
Trey Thoelcke thinkstockFebruary 13, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday, but turned positive by mid-morning and never really looked back. Weak reports on retail sales and new claims for jobless benefits didn’t have much…
Paul Ausick Courtesy Facebook Inc.Social media giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has posted an all-time high share price in the early afternoon on Thursday and it’s a little difficult to figure out why. There’s…
Paul Ausick January was a month that short sellers have been dreaming of. Here are top six names that saw the highest percentage of short covering.
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockOpen Compute, or OCP for short, is an organization that was founded by Facebook in 2011. According to the organization’s website, Open Compute’s goal is to “build one of the most efficient…
Trey Thoelcke ThinkstockFacebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) may have a problem down the road if its teenage user rates do not start to normalize. Or will it? The answer depends upon whom you speak to…
Jon C. Ogg Bloomberg found that Google has executed more deals than any company in the world over the past three years. It edged out marketing and advertising firm WPP and tech giant Intel, which…
In the past several weeks, several content providers have pressed wireless carriers to offer their services free from the normal fees for access to their products or services. Facebook is the latest…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the largest charitable giver in the United States last year, donating just shy of $1 billion. A large number of the other largest givers were…
courtesy of TwitterThe XXII Olympic Winter Games held in Sochi, Russia, belong to NBC, at least from the standpoint of traditional media coverage. Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBCUniveral unit paid $4.38 billion…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockLast week saw fourth-quarter earnings results from two of the premier players in the social media sector: Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD). Neither company’s results proved encouraging to…
Paul Ausick The Internet analysts at Merrill Lynch are of the opinion that there are 10 investment themes that will shape the Internet sector in 2014. Here are some top stocks to buy from…
courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in December, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) grew its share of the U.S. smartphone market by 1.2% compared with the three month period ending in…
Despite the current market sell-off, the sheer infancy of the Internet bodes well for continued growth and profits for years to come. Here are the Internet stocks that J.P. Morgan analysts see…
Trey Thoelcke Since Facebook's beat of fourth-quarter expectations, Twitter's stock price appreciation has actually outpaced Facebook's. Before Facebook reported earnings last week, Twitter stock was barely flat for the month of January.
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