After iPad, Will Microsoft Corporation Bring Office to Android Before Windows?
Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 8:00PM CDT
Excel for iPad. Source: Microsoft One of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's first orders as business when he took the reins was to officially launch Office for iPad. In embracing Apple 's platform first, Nadella was conceding that it needed to...
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corporation Could be Infuriated by Asus' Radical New PC
Sam Mattera, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 7:10PM CDT
Asus' Transformer Book V, unveiled on Monday, is the Taiwanese tech giant's second attempt at merging Microsoft 's Windows 8 with Google 's Android operating system. With a smartphone, tablet and keyboard dock, the Transformer Book V could be...
Class A Shares of Google Inc. to Remain in NASDAQ OMX Indexes
Thomson Reuters ONE - Wed Jun 04, 7:05PM CDT
Update on Google Shares in NASDAQ OMX Indexes
LinkedIn Corp. Hits an Expected Speed Bump in China
Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 6:30PM CDT
Source: LinkedIn. Sooner or later, this was bound to happen. After LinkedIn in February expanded further into China with a Chinese-language beta site to complement the English-language version, censorship was destined to be a sensitive topic....
Tech Data, MakerBot Ink Distribution Deal - Analyst Blog
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Wed Jun 04, 5:50PM CDT
Recently, Tech Data (TECD) entered into a definitive one-year agreement with the leader in desktop 3D printing, MakerBot, a subsidiary of Stratasys (SSYS).
Net Neutrality: Comcast vs. Everybody
Chris Hill, Bill Barker, and Jim Gillies, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 5:34PM CDT
On Wednesday's MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill opens a discussion with Bill Barker, a Motley Fool Funds analyst, and Jim Gillies, a Motley Fool Options and Stock Advisor Canada analyst, about net neutrality by first bringing up comedian John...
China says U.S. tech firms spy
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed Jun 04, 5:34PM CDT
China Daily, People's Daily and other state media have accused tech giants such as Google (GOOGL), Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB) and others of cooperating with the NSA's PRISM program in spying on China and stealing state secrets. Google, blocked by...
Reebok: A Lesson In Investor Patience
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed Jun 04, 4:12PM CDT
We often think of IPO bases as being shorter than a normal base. We think of Google (GOOGL) in 2004 (see the Corner column in Monday's IBD) or Michael Kors (KORS) in 2011. We're cutting them slack because we know institutional investors can't wait to...
Pandora Falls As DOJ Reviews Licensing
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed Jun 04, 3:16PM CDT
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday opened a review of decades-old rules for paying licensing fees to songwriters and composers, a move that could affect royalties paid by Pandora Media (P), Apple (AAPL) and other music streamers. Competition...
What is Google Inc. Thinking?
Tim Brugger, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 3:00PM CDT
From self-driving cars to connected glasses, Google is widely considered the world's most innovative company. Following in the footsteps of its online advertising rival Facebook , Google has taken steps to help bring the Internet to underserved...
Skip the website? Some small businesses still do
By JOSEPH PISANI - AP - Wed Jun 04, 4:20PM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — It's cheap. It's easy to do. And it can take less than 20 minutes to set up. Yet more than half of all small businesses still don't have a website.
3 Technology Stocks Driving The Sector Higher
at The Street - Wed Jun 04, 12:03PM CDT
TheStreet highlights 3 stocks pushing the technology sector higher today.
Will Google Inc. Crush BlackBerry Limited's Internet-of-Things Ambitions?
Andrew Tonner, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 11:25AM CDT
Can Canadian smartphone fallen star BlackBerry bounce back under the leadership of turnaround artist John Chen? That's the billion-dollar question. Source: BlackBerry. BlackBerry has clearly bid adieu to its former life as a smartphone...
Apple, Inc. Quietly Declares Search War on Google
Erin Kennedy and Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 11:00AM CDT
Throughout Apple 's WWDC keynote yesterday, the Mac maker highlighted various ways that it's bolstering its search capabilities. More importantly, Microsoft 's Bing continues to get more and more love from Cupertino, as it will power...
What Investors Need to Know About the Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable Inc. Merger
Michael Nielsen, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Jun 04, 11:00AM CDT
With all of the information and opinions floating around about mergers and acquisitions in the telecom industry, it is easy for investors to get lost. With AT&T 's announcement that it's buying DIRECTV , investors may have forgotten about the...
The Mobile Payment Revolution - Smartphone Apps From Square to Wocket(TM) ; How Digital Wallets Aim To Change How You Pay Forever
PR Newswire - Wed Jun 04, 7:30AM CDT
New eCommerce & Biometrics Companies - including PayPal, Square, Wocket and other Mobile Payment Platform Providers- could shove traditional Merchant Service Providers aside as they bridge the offline and online worlds
'Fast Money' Recap: Driving With the Automakers
at The Street - Wed Jun 04, 4:00AM CDT
The trading panel discussed U.S. auto sales, Fannie Mae and whether MySpace is still relevant.
Arista Networks IPO Targets Cisco In Data Networking
at Investor's Business Daily - Tue Jun 03, 6:21PM CDT
Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way companies build data centers and deliver software applications. Arista Networks (ANET), a leading provider of cloud networking solutions, is tapping into this enthusiasm with an initial public...
Volume of encrypted email rising amid spying fears
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP - Tue Jun 03, 6:00PM CDT
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The volume of email cloaked in encryption technology is rapidly rising as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other major Internet companies try to shield their users' online communications from government spies and other snoops.