Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN), and Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) have all been duds for the market around initial public offerings. These three IPOs have destroyed billions of dollars worth…
The market may still be cautious when it comes to the IPO market. After all, Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN), and Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) have all proven to…
Spain will cut its budget ahead of a possible request for aid. (Reuters) Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) tests systems that allow people to make payments via smartphone. (Reuters) Procter &…
Jon OggThe short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and also in some of the active low-priced shares can tend to be volatile, to say the least. We tracked some rather…
The advantages of small-town living are well known to Americans — and not just because of Norman Rockwellesque clichés about values, neighborliness and pace of life. These days, most prosperous small towns are…
The short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and low-priced shares seems to always contain some big surprises. That is again the case as of the August 31 settlement date. We…
We tracked the short interest in the following Nasdaq most actively traded stocks: Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Zynga…
ZyngaMany traders thought the 7.7% rise in Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) stock after CEO Mark Zuckerberg made comments at a TechCrunch conference about the firm’s future made no sense. He said little beyond…
A look at the headlines across Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Financial Times and the New York Times business section shows that all cover the same major stories in much the…
George Soros says Germany should back the European Union or leave it. (Reuters) The new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone could boast fourth-quarter gross domestic product by 0.5%, according to a J.P. Morgan Chase…
ZyngaJeff Karp, the chief marketing and revenue officer of Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has resigned from his position, according to a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of a severance…
247sam These struggling social media players are looking more and more silly by the day. Over the weekend came news that Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) was losing its cloud technology expert, Allan Leinwand,…
U.S. retail sales of video games, controllers and gear fell 20% in August compared with sales in the same month a year ago, according to a report from research firm NPD Group.…
ZyngaZynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has been in deep trouble since its IPO has made so many short sellers that much more wealthy. Virtual farm animals just haven’t been the continual draw that…
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:…
