Twitter Initiated With Buy Rating On Mobile Ad Update
at Investor's Business Daily - Thu Jun 05, 7:49PM CDT
New ad features at social network Twitter (TWTR) could drive near-term revenue more significantly than previously forecast, says Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson, who initiated coverage with a rating of outperform, or buy. Twitter on Thursday also...
Value Investing: How 1 Change Transformed This Genius Strategy
Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 5:31PM CDT
Value investing is best known for two things: its success in building wealth over the long run and its boring method of doing so. In fact, many of the stocks that value investors have traditionally used to get rich over time have been in businesses...
3 S&P 500 Stocks Investors Can't Get Enough Of
Sean Williams, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 5:16PM CDT
If it seems as if every time you turn around the S&P 500 is ascending to a fresh all-time high then you're not alone. The broad-based index has hit a number of new highs in 2014 as multiple key economic indicators continue to show signs of...
IBM: Are There Reasons to Believe in a Turnaround?
Joseph Gacinga, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 4:40PM CDT
IBM is facing a worrying revenue cliff. As a result, shares of IBM have fallen out of favor with investors and trade at only 10 times expected fiscal 2014 earnings, or just two times expected 2014 sales. In comparison, Oracle trades at 5 times...
At Long Last, Here Comes Amazon.com Inc.'s Magical Smartphone
Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 2:20PM CDT
Amazon is teasing its new smartphone. Source: Amazon.com. For the record, I've been a skeptic of Amazon.com 's rumored smartphone ambitions for years . Rumors of a "Kindle Phone" have persisted for ages. The main reason why Amazon will have such...
Can John Oliver Force the FCC's Hand on Net Neutrality?
Daniel Kline, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 12:28PM CDT
Comedian John Oliver unloaded on the Federal Communications Commission's handling of net neutrality on the June 1 edition of his weekly Last Week Tonight program on HBO. In his well-written rant on the subject, the former Daily Show fill-in...
Google's Searching for Just the Right Music Streaming Service
at The Street - Thu Jun 05, 12:19PM CDT
Google's in the market for a streaming music service, according to a report by the New York Post. While Apple scoops up Beats and Amazon is reportedly planning on adding music streaming to Prime, the report says Google has been surveying the...
Intel Corporation’s Merrifield Finds a Happy Home in Dell Tablets
Ashraf Eassa, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 12:15PM CDT
Longtime readers of my work know that I have been rather bearish on the prospects for Intel 's Merrifield processor. While this platform offers strong real world performance in most mobile applications, it fails to tick a number of key check boxes...
The Hidden Winners Behind Apple Inc's HomeKit
Adam Levy, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 11:45AM CDT
Apple held its worldwide developers conference on Monday, unveiling a slew of new software updates. One of those updates, a home automation platform dubbed HomeKit, has the potential to spur a new round of smart devices for the home. Although...
Intel Turns to Rockchip to Scale the Great Wall of China's Tablet Market
at The Street - Thu Jun 05, 11:35AM CDT
With almost 400 million tablets projected to ship in the next three years, Intel sees an opportunity its can't pass up.
How Apple iPhone's Ad Hints at Its Next Big Thing
at The Street - Thu Jun 05, 11:12AM CDT
Apple unveiled its latest iPhone ad last night, targeted at health and fitness apps, showcasing all the tasks the iPhone can perform. Given the size of the health and fitness market now, it's clear investors are seeing this as the right move.
After Cloudera Purchase, Computer Security May Be Hot Sector
at The Street - Thu Jun 05, 10:57AM CDT
Why a little-noticed purchase may bode well for the stocks of publicly traded computer security companies.
An Amazon Smartphone: Bezos Will Have a Lot of Questions to Answer
at The Street - Thu Jun 05, 9:40AM CDT
Investors betting on Amazon's still-expensive shares should hope that Bezos can answer some tough questions about an Amazon smartphone, if and when the company unveils one.
Is Nintendo’s YouTube Affiliate Program Just a Tax on Loyal Fans?
Leo Sun, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 9:27AM CDT
Nintendo recently signed a deal with Google 's YouTube to allow players to directly upload gameplay videos from their Wii U consoles, as long as they split their ad revenues with Nintendo and YouTube through an affiliate...
Samsung Ditches Google Inc.'s Android for This Upcoming Smartphone
Andrew Tonner, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Jun 05, 9:20AM CDT
In the global smartphone and tablet world, it's Apple , Google , and Samsung , and then everyone else. Source: Google. Samsung and Apple consistently generate the bulk of the profits in these booming markets, and Google has ridden its...
Streaming Movie Revenue Forecast to Surpass Box Office Totals
at The Street - Thu Jun 05, 9:11AM CDT
As the entertainment industry continues its digital shift, a warning for advertisers that they must adapt to the changes.
Lenovo Asks U.S. for More Time on IBM Server Deal
at The Street - Thu Jun 05, 8:43AM CDT
Move appears to be a request for an extension to wrap up CFIUS approval terms.
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