courtesy of YouTubeThe largest Internet companies have described video content as critical to their futures. Video advertising carries a huge premium to the banner ads that have dominated the industry’s revenue stream…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockCybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE) and advertising technology company Rocket Fuel Inc. (NASDAQ: FUEL) both launched initial public offerings Friday morning, and both are posting share price gains of more than…
Paul Ausick Jon OggStocks have been in rally mode for going on three weeks, and investors should be considering which stocks to buy and which stocks to sell or avoid. Each morning, 24/7 Wall…
Leapfrog.comFor all the hundreds of millions of apps and the billions of downloads from the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store and Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play, the same apps dominate the…
courtesy of Yahoo!Look back a short 10 to 15 years ago, and the Internet and media landscape we are so familiar with today barely existed. Carriers had not rolled out fiber-optic networks…
Wall Street is a very fickle mistress. Analysts that work on Wall Street often cannot see the forest for the trees. They are more concerned about defending their reputation than actually doing…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaWarren Buffett holds an estimated $56.5 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock — the most valuable stock holdings of any active chief executive officer. Oracle CEO Larry…
TwitterTwitter filed papers for its initial public offering (IPO). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed the filing to be essentially secret because of rules that apply to companies with revenue of…
Douglas A. McIntyre TwitterTwitter is going to be the next big social media IPO. At least that is what the news flow measurement is suggesting. While we have seen increased speculation that Twitter is readying…
Jon C. Ogg courtesy of Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has managed to come full circle from its devastating initial public offering (IPO). In a period of about 15 months it saw its shares dive…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockOral arguments are scheduled Monday in the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., in a case brought by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At issue are…
Paul Ausick courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.As the protests about wages paid to workers at retail and fast-food giants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) grow, protesters eventually will run out…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockSo far, no one outside the United States has built a global social network, created an operating system adopted at an astonishing rate by smartphone and tablet manufacturers, created the best search…
courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in July 2013, Samsung Electronics closed the market share gap slightly between itself and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the U.S. smartphone market. Compared…
courtesy of AppleIn a movement that could hurt online ad and e-commerce sales, while adding to the personal privacy and security of many people who use the Internet, Americans have started to…
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