courtesy of Sirius XM RadioSirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is now in-play under mergers and acquisitions. The virtual parent Liberty Media Corp. (NASDAQ: LMCA), under John Malone, has offered to buyout Sirius XM…
Which billionaires list is better, the one produced by Forbes, which is decades old, or the new list created by Bloomberg? The answer is that neither is better than the other, or perhaps neither…
Facebook remains the leader in social media use. As has been the case for several years, two or three other social media continue to jockey behind it. The service that has come on the…
courtesy of AOL, IncThe battle between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for the lead in U.S. unique visitors continued into November. Once again, the portal edged out the search firm–based on desktop…
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Shares of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) traded down in the premarket Thursday morning, following the announcement that the company will have a follow-on stock offering of 70 million shares.
ThinkstockVarious sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew more than 163 million unique U.S. viewers in November. AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) drew 73 million viewers and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) clocked…
ThinkstockUpdate: 10.25 AM 12/17/2013. The reports about a new Facebook ad product have turned out to true. They will run automatically in user news feeds, but the sound in the ads will be turned…
ThinkstockLess than two months after scrap-metal executive Daniel Dienst was tapped to be the new chief executive officer at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (NYSE: MSO), the axe has come down for about 100…
courtesy of TwitterJust six weeks after acquiring mobile advertising platform MoPub, Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is launching a native advertising platform for mobile apps. What that means is that the ad will look pretty…
ThinkstockTwitter Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TWTR) shares, despite worries that it has no sustainable revenue model, have outperformed those of LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) over the past month. Incidentally, Wall Street…
thinkstockThe NFL is supposed to make money on TV rights and from major sponsors. Most of these sponsors are among the largest branded companies in the United States. And virtually all of them already have huge…
Wikimedia CommonsThe assumption among most investors is that to make money on stocks based on holiday sales, the only option is shares in retail and e-commerce companies. That is not entirely true. All those…
ThinkstockThe spin-off of publishing company Time Inc. by its parent, the entertainment company Time Warner Inc. (NASDAQ: TWX), will most likely be delayed until the second half of the 2014, according to two sources…
ThinkstockGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched its haphazardly named streaming radio service, Google Play Music All Access, in May for a $10 a month subscription price. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched its free iTunes Radio…