7 Things to Know About Square Before Its IPO
Madeleine Johnson - Zacks Investment Research - 2 hrs 1 min ago
Should you invest in Square? Read on for 7 facts about the burgeoning payments company before its upcoming IPO.
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Top Tesla, Facebook, Netflix Execs Lead Insider Deals
at Investor's Business Daily - 2 hrs 12 mins ago
Top executives at Tesla Motors (TSLA), Facebook (FB), Netflix (NFLX) and Alphabet (GOOGL) were in the mood this past week to buy and sell their own companies' stock. Tesla Motors co-founder and Chief Technical Officer Jeffrey Straubel on Monday...
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Twitter CEO gives up $200M in stock for company employees
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP - 2 hrs 41 mins ago
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After laying off more than 300 workers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is trying to lift the spirits of the remaining employees by giving them 6.8 million shares of the stock he owns in the online messaging service.
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Stocks Rally Ahead of Next Week's Fed Meeting, Apple Earnings
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 3:16PM CDT
The question now is whether the market's feel-good mood will carry over into the coming week, especially with the Federal Reverse's latest policy meeting mid-week.
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Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet Lead Market Rally; Facebook Tops $100 -- Tech Roundup
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 3:16PM CDT
The Nasdaq closed above 5,000 and the S&P 500 wiped out its losses for the year.
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Jim Cramer Favors Eli Lilly, Calls P&G a Catch-Up Trade
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 2:13PM CDT
TheStreet's Jim Cramer shares his thoughts on Procter & Gamble, FireEye, Twitter, Eli Lilly and more, when answering viewers questions.
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Move Over Amazon, Alphabet: Facebook Hits High
at Investor's Business Daily - Fri Oct 23, 2:12PM CDT
A lot of attention is currently on Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT), but there's another tech giant that hit a new high in the stock market today: Facebook (FB). Facebook on Thursday announced that it had updated its search...
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Facebook's Instagram Launches Boomerang Mini Video App
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Oct 23, 1:26PM CDT
Instagram, the photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook (FB), has unveiled a 1-sec video app called Boomerang.
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Business events scheduled for the coming week
By The Associated Press - AP - Fri Oct 23, 12:43PM CDT
All times are Eastern.
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Facebook Search Feature to Challenge Google, Twitter?
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Oct 23, 12:33PM CDT
Facebook, Inc. (FB) has revamped its search feature to provide more "timely and personalized search suggestions."
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Yahoo! NFL Live-Stream: No Touchdown on This Play
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 11:22AM CDT
The Bills-Jaguars game from London on Sunday will provide a lot of market research -- but little else -- for YHOO shareholders.
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Twitter (TWTR) to Report Q3 Earnings: Will It Beat Estimates?
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Oct 23, 10:59AM CDT
We expect Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) to beat expectations when it reports third-quarter 2015 results on Oct 27.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Isn't the Only Exec to Reward Employees
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 10:43AM CDT
Twitter's Jack Dorsey isn't the only CEO to play Robin Hood.
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Twitter (TWTR) Stock Leaps, CEO Dorsey Gives Employees $200 Million of His Stock
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 10:00AM CDT
Twitter (TWTR) shares are rallying on Friday after CEO Jack Dorsey said that he would give the microblogging site's employees a third of his shares.
TWTR: 30.28 (+1.13)
How Many Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes Does It Take To Build a Stock Portfolio?
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 8:45AM CDT
While many are heralding the return of the most popular coffee drink in modern history, I would like to point out the massive opportunity cost for apathetic investors.
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Oct. 23 Premarket Briefing: 10 Things You Should Know
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 5:46AM CDT
U.S. stock futures are rising Friday on the back of strong earnings from a number of U.S. technology giants.
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Europe's Biggest Bank Considers Moving Headquarters to the U.S.
at The Street - Fri Oct 23, 4:30AM CDT
And four other things you need to know now.
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Activision Moves To Put E-Sports In The Big Leagues
at Investor's Business Daily - Thu Oct 22, 3:43PM CDT
In yet another sign that e-sports have arrived, Activision Blizzard (ATVI) said Thursday that it's bringing aboard Steve Bornstein, former CEO of ESPN and the NFL Network, to chair its newly created e-sports division. Tapped to serve as senior vice...
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Facebook Expands Search, Challenges Google, Twitter
at Investor's Business Daily - Thu Oct 22, 3:05PM CDT
Facebook (FB) will expand its search feature beyond just posts of friends and family to now include all public posts in its archive -- all 2 trillion of them. "Today, we're updating Facebook Search so that in addition to friends and family, you can...
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Facebook Just Copied Twitter to Take on Google
at The Street - Thu Oct 22, 2:08PM CDT
Facebook just revamped its search function in an effort to make the site's more than 2 trillion indexed posts more easily navigable.
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