This Partnership Will Help Yelp Inc Compete With Facebook Inc and Google Inc
Adam Levy, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - 33 mins ago
On Yelp 's fourth quarter conference call, CFO Rob Krolik cited a BIA/Kelsey study that said local advertising spend in the U.S. will grow to $149 billion in 2017. The amount spent on digital advertising is expected to grow to $41 billion that...
The Top Tech Dividend Stock
Timothy Green, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - 1 hr 3 mins ago
Networking giant Cisco has had a tough few quarters , with significant revenue declines caused by weakness in emerging markets and in sales to service providers. This weakness has caused the stock to remain well below the highs of last year,...
How Will Google's Deal With Luxottica Make Glass a Success?
Louie Grint, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sat Mar 29, 6:00AM CDT
Following my previous in-depth analysis of Luxottica Group , great fresh news has arrived to comment about. This week, Google signed an agreement with Luxottica which will put the company in charge of the design, development, and distribution...
'Fast Money' Recap: Looking for the Upside
at The Street - Sat Mar 29, 4:00AM CDT
The trading panel discussed momentum stocks and what must happen for equities to move higher.
Amazon's Bid for Free TV
Chris Hill, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 7:37PM CDT
Amazon is holding a media event next Wednesday to provide an update on the company's video business. Many reports have indicated that it will be launching a free, ad-supported TV service separate from Amazon Prime. Is this the right move for the...
Facebook Is On a Shopping Spree
Evan Niu, CFA and Erin Kennedy, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 6:00PM CDT
A couple days ago, social networking giant Facebook annouced that it would be acquiring Oculus, a small company that has been developing an exciting new immersive virtual reality platform, in a deal worth $2 billion. Of that, $400 million will be...
Another year, another $1 for Google co-founders
AP - Fri Mar 28, 5:17PM CDT
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google paid co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin their customary $1 salaries last year while Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's compensation more than doubled to $19.3 million.
Better Buy: Google Inc vs. General Electric Company
Isaac Pino, CPA, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 5:15PM CDT
On the surface, General Electric and Google seem to have little in common. The former manufactures physical machines and engines while the latter dominates the virtual realm of high technology. In many respects, however, GE and Google share a...
Google Announces Date of First Quarter 2014 Financial Results Conference Call
Business Wire - Fri Mar 28, 3:54PM CDT
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter 2014 financial results on Wednesday, April 16th at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time).
Did Facebook Just Pull a Google?
Evan Niu, CFA and Erin Kennedy, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 3:54PM CDT
On Friday's Tech Teardown , host Erin Kennedy and Motley Fool tech and telecom bureau chief Evan Niu take a look at the top stories from the market this week in tech. Evan takes a deep dive into the details and motivation behind Facebook 's...
How the Box IPO Might Pay Off for Investors
Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 2:00PM CDT
Will the Box IPO succeed? Skeptics rightly tout a long history of losses and strengthening competition from the likes of Google and Microsoft , among others. Yet there's hope to be found in the company's latest growth metrics, Fool contributor...
Google's Unusual Stock Split
Erin Kennedy and Brendan Mathews, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 1:30PM CDT
On April 3, Google will finally go through with its 2-for-1 stock split, which has been two years in the making. With the incredible run Google has had since it went public, its shares are now trading for well over $1,000 apiece, so a split makes...
Facebook Drones Fly In Dogfight Vs. Google Balloons
at Investor's Business Daily - Fri Mar 28, 12:06PM CDT
Facebook (FB) said late Thursday that it's building Internet-beaming drones as part of its Internet.org project, which has the lofty goal of connecting everyone in the world to the Web. The drones -- or "high-altitude long-endurance aircraft" -- are...
Did Microsoft Office for iPad Come Too Late?
Daniel Kline, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 11:35AM CDT
New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is moving his company into the cloud and away from being reliant on customers using its Windows operating system. He made that transition abundantly clear in a March 27 event where he announced a suite of new...
Balanced View on Fossil Group - Analyst Blog
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Mar 28, 10:10AM CDT
On Mar 24, 2014, we issued an updated research report on Fossil Group. This global consumer fashion accessories maker and distributor recently reported mixed fourth-quarter 2013 results on Feb 12.
Traders Bet Big on BlackBerry: StockTwits.com
at The Street - Fri Mar 28, 9:55AM CDT
BlackBerry is losing less money and a lot more business. And that, say investors on StockTwits.com, is progress capable of returning the company to profitability. Though not enough to show the beleaguered smart phone company's turnaround plan has...
Baidu Is Now On Our Positive Watchlist !
Vikram Nagarkar - Amigobulls - Fri Mar 28, 9:43AM CDT
Chinese internet search giant Baidu's stock has been weighed down by a mix of macro-economic and geo-political concerns. Even as Russia's annexation of Crimea spooked global markets, China's poor economic outlook catalysed Baidu's 20% fall from its...
Does Facebook Have Google Envy?
Alex Dumortier, CFA, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Mar 28, 9:20AM CDT
This has been a difficult week for U.S. stocks, but perhaps Friday will offer some relief, with the benchmark S&P 500 and the narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.82% and 0.86%, respectively, as of 10:15 a.m. EDT. Following its $2...
Bulls Are Running Back to BlackBerry
at The Street - Fri Mar 28, 9:10AM CDT
BlackBerry's renewed enterprise focus appears to be paying off and the company is looking presidential. I've turned bullish, and I'm not alone.
Stock Market News for March 28, 2014 - Market News
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Mar 28, 9:06AM CDT
Benchmarks ended lower on Thursday as investors feared sooner-than-expected rate hikes