courtesy of Facebook Inc.The future often seems to knock at the door when you may not be ready. Facebook aficionados recently received a message from founder Mark Zuckerberg explaining that the social…
ThinkstockLost in the frenzy of news coverage about the purchase of the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) flagship by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos is whether Amazon itself is doing…
courtesy of Apple Inc.For the three months ending in June 2013, Samsung Electronics closed the market share gap slightly between itself and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the U.S. market. Compared with…
Last month when Nokia agreed to acquire the other half of its joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, from Siemens for $2.2 billion, we wondered what in the world the Finnish mobile phone…
courtesy of AOL, IncAOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The online media and brand company posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on revenues…
Paul Ausick Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsOn the day that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) came public last year, more than 580 million shares of the company’s stock changed hands. No other trading day since…
courtesy of AppleThe world knows that the tablet market has disrupted the PC market, and most of us expect that this trend will only remain in place. IDC has released its second-quarter…
courtesy of Google Inc.The Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is cementing its spot at the top of the heap of smartphone operating systems. At the end of the second…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) posted a profit, but the figure is not likely to satisfy raider Daniel Loeb, who wants the company to break out its studio operations. Sales…
courtesy of MicrosoftAccording to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), its Surface tablet business lost money in the past fiscal year. One clue that the product was in trouble was the disclosure that Microsoft…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsA billionaire should be able to take a few weeks off in the summer, particularly one who works as religiously as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer. His…
courtesy of ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a company with a new CEO, but without a future. Everyone agrees with that, except Zynga. That leaves with game company’s board with the dilemma, which…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.It is enough money to buy up most of the residential property on Museum Mile, a northern part of New York’s Fifth Avenue, or every Ford ever built? That…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of July 15 in the following large cap stock market shares: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America…
ThinkstockGoogle Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) single greatest weakness may be its poor market share in the world’s largest country as measured by population and Internet users — China. To make matters worse, Google’s…
