Courtesy Alibaba GroupWith Twitter Inc. executives and bankers preparing for Friday’s kick-off to the roadshow they hope will convince investors that the company’s nominal initial public offering (IPO) valuation of around $12.8…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockOnline video has radically changed the way Americans consume media. People want to watch when it is convenient for them, not when network programmers want them to. The industry’s term for it…
courtesy of Google Inc.Tech is undergoing one of its every-15-year transitions, this time from a client-server basis to information technology as a service (ITaaS). According to the tech analysts at UBS, history…
ThinkstockLinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNDK) did what few firms have been able to, at least with any believability. It has ranked the most “in-demand employers,” based on a huge sample size. The research comes…
courtesy of Google Inc.The market already has rewarded Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) third-quarter earnings by lifting its shares to nearly $1,000, which is an all-time high. Investors were impressed by the improvement in…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of Yahoo!Sometimes people just do not know how to concede that a win is a win. The truth is that winners know when they won, while losers often fail to concede…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockThe saying is that if there is a trading strategy, then there is an ETF strategy for that as well. Now the markets are getting a new exchange-traded fund strategy aimed at…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsIn the midst of the start of earnings season and in the midst of a Fitch credit ratings warning to the United States, a key decision has been made by the…
Jon C. Ogg courtesy of Facebook Inc.Year to date, the UBS Internet Index has outperformed the broader market by 25%. The reasons for this outperformance have varied, ranging from growing addressable markets, improved monetization and/or stability, consistent…
Wikimedia CommonsThe general investing public will spend much of its energy waiting for earnings from famous companies such as Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP). These are…
FunnyTimes.comSocial media stocks have been on fire, at least up until Tuesday. The sector should be at least somewhat immune to the market’s risk tied to a government shutdown and somewhat to…
Jon OggInvestors and traders alike are stuck trying to determine what to do with their stocks during a government shutdown and ahead of the debt ceiling debate. Each morning 24/7 Wall St.…
Any time a major company files for an initial public offering (IPO) there will be skeptics. All companies have to cite “Risk Factors” in their IPO filings with the Securities and Exchange…
Jon C. Ogg The government has decided to shut down, and investors and the public are trying to figure out what all of this really means. Is this good politics or bad? Is it good…
TwitterRumors spread that Twitter would file its initial public offering (IPO) papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week. The likelihood of that has died as the federal government prepares…
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