Twitter left a lot of questions unanswered about its new syndicated ad network, but it looks like Wall Street didn’t mind. The…
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Here’s why Facebook got away with a 335 percent hike in ad prices
Ads dominated the discussion during Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings call this Wednesday. COO Sheryl Sandberg told analysts that the company is charging 335 percent…
Read MoreWall Street meets hippies as green energy turns into big business
Think Wall Street is just about money? A recent trip to the heart of New York's financial district shows a paradise of urban planning springing up.…
Read MoreWall Street loves Snapchat! No, seriously!
Snapchat is about to raise $100 million from unnamed investors, probably hedge funds. Maybe they are following Peter Lynch theory investing: invest in what you know.…
Read MoreBloomberg launches financial app store, offers Angry Bonds
Financial giant Bloomberg has opened an app store in which it wil take 30 percent of revenue. The move is significant because it is the first time the tightly-controlled company is opening up its rich pools of data to outside developers.…
Read MoreHow Uber is like Southwest Air: The art of reinventing an industry
With an ailing economy where manufacturing jobs are gone forever, what hope does America have? Mark Sigal of Unicorn Labs says companies—and our country—can prosper again only by embracing a unified approach to business, or an ethos of Indivisibility.…
Read MoreThe Apple-Samsung verdict: Wall Street reacts
The impact of Apple's landmark victory over Samsung in their patent trial on Friday has resulted in Apple shares hitting their highest mark yet. Here's how some of the largest investors in Apple and Google are looking at the verdict on Monday morning.…
Read MoreZipcar’s future
Zipcar lost about a third of its market value last week as it reported slowing membership growth, a failed broadcast radio campaign…
Read MoreFacebook’s first earnings report meets Wall Street estimates
Facebook's second quarter earnings report - its first since going public in May - just matched Wall Street analysts' expectations. The company also said it had 955 million monthly active users as of the end of June.…
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Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter certainly stepped in it yesterday in comments to Bloomberg criticizing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for showing up…
Read MoreInvesting in Amazon: The cloud won’t make you rich overnight
Amazon published “disappointing” earnings this week, and the market responded, slashing up to 12 percent off the company’s value. It’s a market that’s preoccupied…
Read MoreApple shares close above $400
Apple investors rejoice: The company's stock closed at an all-time high Tuesday. Shares of the iPhone and iPad maker hit $400 a few times Monday but closed at $398.50. Tuesday shares opened at the $400 mark and actually peaked in the morning at $404.48.…
Read MoreWhat Wall Street is saying about Netflix
Netflix faced Wall Street analysts Monday to explain why its new subscription plans were a good idea. While many on Wall Street were surprised by the effect it will have on customer additions in the short-term, most agreed that the change won't affect the long-term story.…
Read MoreWall Street’s LinkedIn forecast: Sunny. Very sunny.
Analysts at Wall Street's major financial firms initiated wholesale coverage of LinkedIn (s LNKD) on Tuesday, putting forth their opinions of the company's future growth prospects and estimates for how the stock should perform. Wall Street's predictions for LinkedIn, in a word? Bullish.…
Read MoreCMEA's Maurice Gunderson Talks Tactics
As the stimulus and the recession both leave marks on the cleantech industry, cleantech investors, along with entrepreneurs, are adjusting to a…
Read MoreVonage Experiences App Store Bump
If you watch TV, then you probably can’t erase the memory of Vonage (s vg) commercials from your brain, no matter how…
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EU Gets Another Fuel Sipper: What’s not a hybrid, doesn’t have a plug and isn’t available in the U.S. — but gets…
Read MoreHow Wall Street Can Hurt Silicon Valley
After Monday, the belief that Silicon Valley is going to remain immune from the Wall Street fallout is gone. While some tech companies had been saying they weren’t worried that the credit crunch would hurt them, I don't believe them.…
Read MoreChris Crocker Fails to Leave YouTube As Promised
Like Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking at the front door, a breakout the night before the big dance and other annoyances, one would think…
Read MoreLehman Collapse Unsettles Solar Sector
The turmoil on Wall Street has until now had a muted impact on clean technology, but that’s starting to change. Some solar…
Read MoreYahoo defending its turf: display ads
After spending $680 million to scoop-up Right Media, Yahoo today announced a deal with Comcast to sell display and video advertising on…
Read MoreSanDisk USB card readers are the smallest anywhere
SanDisk recently announced two new media card readers in the MobileMate line. The MobileMate SD+ 5-in-1 reader supports SD™, MiniSD™, MultiMediaCard™, RS-MMC™…
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