ThinkstockIn the round of 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it turns out that the activist and special situation hedge fund ValueAct Capital Management, L.P. made some big changes. First…
Yahoo! has acquired privately held Blink for an undisclosed sum. Now that Yahoo! is about to juice up its war chest in the coming IPO of Alibaba, CEO Marissa Mayer could take…
thinkstockMay 13, 2014: Markets opened higher on Monday although it didn’t take the Nasdaq long to dive. The S&P 500 posted an all-time high this morning before pulling back, and there were…
Apparently Microsoft decided that giving away a copy of Titanfall with each Xbox One it sold was not a long-term strategic winner. Tuesday it announced that it would begin selling the device…
In what is being characterized as a surprise decision, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that individuals can ask Google to remove links to certain documents that turn up in search…
courtesy of Apple Inc.When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported second fiscal quarter earnings in late April, the company revealed that it had shipped 3.1 million fewer iPads than it did in the…
courtesy of Sirius XM RadioShort sellers continue to hold huge positions not only in troubled companies like BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), but also in such tech giants as Intel. As of April…
ThinkstockCreating the most popular product of the year will make consumers and investors happy. But making an all-time bestseller can transform an industry and define a business for decades. Many of the…
ThinkstockWith interest rates still hovering just above multiyear lows, we continue to monitor ways for investors to get higher yields without chasing higher risk. The UBS Dividend Ruler stock list is constantly…
Shares of Electronic Arts posted a new 52-week high in the opening minutes of trading Wednesday, following a monumental earnings beat after markets closed Tuesday night.
Wikimedia CommonsIn a move that had already started, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and its PC-making customers are moving further and further away from the old Win-Tel days. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is…
Nokia, and by extension, its parent Microsoft, have entered the "connected" car business. The trend has become a land rush that now includes dozens of software, hardware and car manufacturers.
This past week brought yet another swing taking the Dow Jones Industrial Average to within 30 points or so of an all-time record high. 24/7 Wall St, wanted to review the four…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsThere may be one or two institutions which own larger blocks of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) than Steve Ballmer does, but for the first time in history, Ballmer owns…
thinkstockMay 1, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Thursday as only the Nasdaq managed a positive showing at the start. None of the indexes moved very far from the break-even line all day…
