courtesy of ebayeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) reported first quarter 2014 results after the markets closed Tuesday. The e-commerce giant posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.70 on revenues of $4.3 billion. In…
courtesy of TwitterTwitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) reported first quarter 2014 results after the markets closed Tuesday. The social messaging company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.00 on revenues of $250 million.…
Bad news for Facebook: the percentage of teens active on the social media platform fell by 9% last year, according to a global survey of Internet users. Twitter does not have it quite so…
So far 2014 has not treated social media stocks very well. Among the big cap stocks, only Facebook has seen a gain year-to-date, and that gain is just 2.5%. Twitter shares have dropped 36%…
courtesy of MicrosoftIn an announcement that should surprise no one, Stephen Elop, former CEO of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and now executive vice-president of the devices division of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), said Monday…
Shares of Apple posted an all-time high in September 2012, shortly after the launch of the iPhone 5. Since then the stock has dropped below $400 a share a couple of times.
About two weeks ago, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia raised his rating on Twitter from Underperform to Neutral. Last Friday, Bhatia doubled down on his upgrade.
Wikimedia CommonsWhen a stock is valued at 72 times forward earnings, it is a pretty safe bet that investors are looking at a growth play. When the same stock has been publicly traded for…
Now that Nokia has unloaded its unprofitable mobile handset business on Microsoft the question is how does Microsoft make it profitable? What did Microsoft get for its $7.52 billion?
An exclusive report at Computerworld claims that Google is considering building out Wi-Fi networks in the cities and towns where it is deploying its high-speed Google Fiber Internet service.
Amazon.com Inc.The Internet continues to grow at a breathtaking rate. And it is slowly, but surely changing the way many standard entertainment and advertising are viewed and consumed by the consumer. The analysts at…
ThinkstockMost of us are so accustomed to having the Internet around and on 24/7, that we hardly give it a second thought. From the connection in our home to the Wi-Fi in the Starbucks…
ThinkstockSina Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA), one of China’s largest Internet companies and the majority owner of Weibo Corp. (NASDAQ: WB), has had the two of its publication and distribution licenses revoked by the government in…
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported third fiscal quarter 2014 results after markets closed Thursday. The software behemoth reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.68 on revenues of $20.4 billion. In the…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is out with its first quarter earnings report for 2015, and the company did not follow Apple in its effort to make shares more…