Apple may be about to enter the video game console market. Metal, the new graphics API Apple unveiled on Monday, strongly suggests that the iPhone-maker is taking core gaming seriously. Industry observers…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 200 points this past week and set a new all-time high of 16,924.30 on Friday before closing at 16,924.28. This is a good time…
thinkstockJune 5, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday, took a short-lived trip south, and then tacked a nice gain on all three major indexes. New claims for jobless benefits posted their lowest…
Amazon.com is supposed to be releasing a new smartphone on June 18, 2014. The question is how Amazon can compete in the space, and who it is going after.
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Thursday, June 5, 2014. They include Apple, Lululemon, Microsoft, NBG, Twitter and Whole Foods.
ThinkstockThe average U.S. TV viewer may regularly watch just 17 of the hundreds of channels available, but that average viewer’s consumption of TV is skyrocketing. The main agents of the rapidly rising…
Microsoft plans to release a version of its Office software suite -- optimized for touch screens -- for Google’s Android operating system. As consumers increasingly embrace non-Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office stands…
For the three months ending in April, Samsung Electronics gained 1% of market share from Apple and other smartphone makers to grow its share of the U.S. smartphone market to 27.7%.
thinkstockJune 3, 2014: Markets opened slightly lower on Tuesday and never really recovered. Trading was moderate again today and the index losses were small in most sectors. Shortly before the closing bell…
Last week Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, bid $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers -- a price most experts consider way too high. Is this just a vanity purchase…
Google’s Chromebooks, the inexpensive laptops powered by Google’s Chrome operating system, are coming to New Zealand, the Philippines, Norway, Denmark, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Spain and Italy. In countries with developing economies, Chromebooks…
ThinkstockOne thing we have related to 24/7 readers over the years is that for all of their pedigreed executives and portfolio managers, hedge funds tend to go a lot in the same…
Video game maker Ubisoft has now delivered its much anticipated Watch Dogs game for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and earlier devices from both Sony and Microsoft, as well as PCs.
Sitting on a fortune estimated to be worth about $20 billion, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer agreed late Thursday to pay $2 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers. It is the second-highest…
Paul Ausick The announcement of a strategic partnership between Microsoft and Salesforce.com after markets closed on Thursday boosted the latter's shares in after-hours trading, but investor enthusiasm had waned by Friday morning.
