Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) started as Buy at Jefferies. Adtran Inc. (NASDAQ:…
CNNMoney is the 10th largest financial and business website in America, at least as audience measurement firm Comscore rates it. The site has 10.2 million unique visitors in July, which places it…
Douglas A. McIntyre The latest installment of “The Expendables” franchise debuted at number one at weekend box offices around the country. “The Expendables 2” from Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: LGF) hauled in $28.8 million…
The YouTube division of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) drew 157 million unique viewers in July, nearly 3x the number of unique viewers of its nearest rival, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). The figures…
Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) raises $400 million. (CNBC) HTC reports that sales of its smartphones fell 45% year-over-year. (Reuters) The New York State Department of Financial Services apparently is investigating…
Bloomberg is hardly a household brand name in America, except for a constant stream of news about New York City Michael Bloomberg and his crusades against smoking in public and bans on large containers…
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) reported second-quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.59 and $6.7 billion in revenue before markets opened this morning. EPS was just slightly lower than the $0.60…
Paul Ausick During a conference call today to discuss IACInteractiveCorp’s (NASDAQ: IACI) second-quarter earnings, the company’s chairman was asked whether the company would continue to publish a hard-copy edition of Newsweek magazine, a publication…
Based on data released by the Warner Bros division of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), the third installment of the Batman series, “The Dark Knight Rises” brought in $160.9 million over its first…
Douglas A. McIntyre Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Warner Bros. on Friday jointly announced a licensing agreement to add TV shows such as Fringe and The West Wing to its Prime Instant Video catalog, making those shows available…
This past weekend turned out better than expected for Hollywood’s movie makers, even though a heavily populated part of the country was struggling with power outages. A boy and his stuffed bear…
This year should belong to Sports Illustrated. It is part of the mighty CNN Digital network, which gives it heft online. TIME Inc., the publication’s parent, describes the SI.com website as offering sports…
Douglas A. McIntyre Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday. AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.…
Editor’s Note: The New York Times reports that one of TIME, Inc.’s big three weeklies, which include TIME, People, and Sports Illustrated, will lay off a number of employees. According to NYT.com,…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday. Annie’s, Inc. (NYSE: BNNY) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan; Started as Outperform…
