AOL (NYSE: AOL) may break itself into pieces in preparation for a potential merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ YHOO). (Reuters) Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told “60 Minutes” that the central…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is a cult stock stock which often defies gravity. While shares have soared, many analysts have missed the boat. It is one of those stocks which rallied into…
Jon C. Ogg When Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently signed a contract with Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) to store and deliver streaming video, the stage was set for the next round in the…
Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the most insight. …
Being Blockbuster must be just awful now. We picked this as one of several key brands which would disappear, and it has already met our criteria for disappearing because it filed for…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) raised its earnings outlook for 2011. (Reuters) J Crew Group (NYSE: JCG) is close to a $2.8 billion takeover by private equity interests. (Reuters) Oil fell to near $81…
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will not admit publicly that its DVD-via-mail business is dying. But, its announcement today that it will offer an “internet only” product is a powerful hint that the company…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Affymax, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFY), Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX), Cirrus Logic, Inc.…
Few companies have a true monopoly in any market. More common are “virtual monopolies” or “near-monopolies” that exist due to geography or brand recognition. When consumers hear the term monopoly, the first…
Good For the first time in a wretch history of poor management, Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) finally got something right. The company has 67,000 miles of broadband backbone used to for VoIP, data,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is confirming what we already knew… Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) selected the wholesale data carrier to serve as a primary content delivery network provider for streaming…
The most common method of valuing stocks is the good old P/E ratio that measures the share price versus the trailing 12-months earnings. For many tech and biotech stocks, that means that…
The print industry is dead. That has been the conventional wisdom for years, and it is becoming increasing clear that the conventional wisdom is correct. What may be news is that network…
Douglas A. McIntyre Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has been declared dead so many times that CEO Brian Roberts might want to dress up like a vampire for Halloween. First, the media declared Comcast its…
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is in the middle of the oldest dilemma on the Interne: how to make money doing cool stuff. It’s the old “why buy the cow when you can get…