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  • 1 Way Facebook Outperforms LinkedIn

    By Erin McBride - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GRPN, LNKD, YELP

    One year ago the hype around the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO would have led one to think that this was the stock to retire on. We all know how that bust ended. The stock went down the toilet, and has only bubbled up a few times.

    In spite of Facebook’s notorious IPO, it was not the worst web 2.0 publicly traded debutante. That honor goes to Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPNmore »)

  • Facebook Is Still Not Ready To Fly

    By Dusan Jovanic - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    More than one year has passed since the IPO, and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is still far from its offering price. The situation changed for the better, but the operating margin is heading lower and the profit is going nowhere. On the plus side, the company is delivering strong revenue growth, and its mobile monetization efforts are doing better now. Facebook's share price has not participated in this year's more »

  • Yahoo Changes Direction with Tumblr Purchase

    By Richard Cox - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    Recent announcements that Yahoo will buy internet blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash has led to immediate criticism from a wide swath of the analyst community.  So far, most of the commentaries have centered on the fact that Yahoo might have paid too much for a company that has yet to prove itself as a viable revenue generator, or relate to general incompatibility between the corporate vision more »

  • 3 Charts That Explain Why This Internet Giant Can Rise By 25%

    By Zain Zafar - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    More than one year has passed since Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) ill-fated IPO after which the stock lost more than half of its value before recovering some of the losses. At the time of writing, Facebook’s stock price still remains more than 30% lower than its IPO price. I’ve read many articles on why Facebook’s IPO went all wrong, but for investors what’s more important is more »

  • Microsoft’s War Against Google

    By Salvatore "Sam" Mattera - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, MSFT

    I've written previously about Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) robust online ecosystem. Through its assets like the Chrome web browser, gmail, YouTube, and its search engine, for many people, Google quite literally serves as the gateway to the Internet.

    Since 2009, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been trying to replicate much of Google’s business, and has thus far met with little success. But recently, the company has been targeting Google more »

  • Billion Dollar Mistakes

    By Timothy Green - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, YHOO

    The big news this week was Yahoo's (NASDAQ: YHOO) $1.1 billion acquisition of micro-blogging site Tumblr. Tumblr has grown its user base rapidly since it was founded in 2006, and today the site has over 100 million registered blogs which have posted a combined 50 billion blog posts. Web traffic is through the roof, with 184 million unique visitors per month and 12.1 billion page views. But more »

  • Yahoo! Buys Tumblr - Remind You of Anything?

    By Ash Anderson - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    It was announced late Sunday that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) would be acquiring Tumblr, a large online blogging community. Want to know the price on that acquisition? An incredible $1.1 billion in cash, straight from the Yahoo! coffers.

    Initially the deal made me wonder what on earth was going on in the minds of the Yahoo! board. I eventually remembered that twice in the last decade I have asked a more »

  • Yahoo’s Acquisition of Tumblr is a Calculated Risk

    By Nicholas Kitonyi - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) recently announced the acquisition of blogging company Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Soon after the announcement, media pundits followed up with a lot of criticism over the amount Yahoo has offered to pay for the acquisition. The deal will see Yahoo part with at least $1.1 billion in cash, for the company that has approximately 108 million blogs as ofMay 20 2013.

    Analysts believe that the more »

  • Google To Reward Investors Soon?

    By Ashley Sales - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG

    It was not long ago when a majority of investors wondered whether Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has peaked. Though the amount of paid clicks increased, the cost per click declined and we wondered whether Google is still a company with growth potential. Well, this quarter confirms that Google is still "the" company to watch. As far as dividends are concerned, Google is in an interesting position. The stock prices have been more »

  • Is Tumblr a Good Purchase for Yahoo?

    By Stephanie Faris - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    In the late 90s, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) seemed to dominate the cyberworld, as the search engine of choice for the masses of new web surfers. As with many companies, Yahoo suffered from the dot-com bubble, tumbling from $118 a share in early 2000 to $4.05 a share in September 2001. Once Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) came on the scene, Yahoo's place in the market seemed uncertain, remaining that way more »

  • Billionaire Leon Cooperman: Facebook Is a Value Play

    By Marshall Hargrave - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, LNKD

    Billionaire Leon Cooperman appeared on CNBC last week to say that the social networking giant Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is a value play. He noted that the company's valuation might appear rich with Facebook having "a higher multiple than the kind of things we're normally involved in, but we think there's a lot of wind to their back" (check out Cooperman's high upside picks).

    He proceeded to more »

  • The Battle of the Social Networks: Facebook vs. LinkedIn

    By Andrés Cardenal - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, LNKD

    Coke vs. Pepsi, Apple vs. Microsoft or American Airlines vs. decent customer service, corporate battles are a big part of global business history. Although it's a much younger rivalry, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) have emerged as the two leading social networks, and they directly compete against each other in areas like online advertising.

    Let's take a look at these two companies from an investor's more »

  • The Difference Between Instagram and Tumblr

    By Adam Levy - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, YHOO

    When the news that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may acquire Tumblr started circulating last week, analysts were quick to draw comparisons between it and another recent billion dollar social media acquisition - Facebook-Instagram. But the Tumblr deal doesn’t have much more than a price-tag in common with the Instagram deal.

    Different motives

    Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) saw a threat in Instagram. The photo sharing network was just 18 months old, yet had more »

  • 3 Big Stocks in the Internet Industry

    By Victor Selva - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: AKAM, FB, YHOO

    In the internet services sector, only those who have the scale and capacity to adapt to constantly changing contexts prevail. In the era of mobile expansion, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB)(NASDAQ: FB)(NASDAQ: FB), and Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) are well known web companies that have successfully moved into the mobile business and offer plenty of upside for investors.

    A leader to consider

    This internet giant most recently made it to the more »

  • What Yahoo Bought With Tumblr Is Team

    By Dana Blankenhorn - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, YHOO

    The Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) acquisition of Tumblr came about very quickly, and was closed over a weekend, at $1.1 billion.

    All the analysis I've seen on the deal focuses on what it means for users.  Is Yahoo cool enough to keep them? Will they abandon Yahoo for, say, Wordpress? How fast will Yahoo try to get its money out with advertising, and how much will that annoy users more »

  • What Yahoo! Needs Even More Than Tumblr

    By Jon Quast - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, MSFT, YHOO

    Rumors are swirling about Yahoo!  (NASDAQ: YHOO) possibly acquiring Tumblr -- a company that fuses blogging with social networking -- for $1 billion. As Yahoo continues to mount a stock price comeback, a potential Tumblr acquisition has investors dreaming of how high this will send shares flying. To which I say: Forget about Tumblr. Yahoo! can give us something infinitely more valuable.

    Monster Acquisitions Rarely Deliver

    Here are the largest acquisitions from more »

  • Why Facebook Can Become Another MySpace

    By Lennox Yieke - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    The debate on Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) long term future has for the past year been a conundrum for industry specialists and Wall Street money managers. Despite this, a renowned international media mogul has mapped out Facebook’s future in a single tweet. Rupert Murdoch had this say on Twitter.

    ‘Look out Facebook! Hours spent participating per member dropping seriously. First really bad sign as seen by crappy MySpace years more »

  • Yahoo Doesn’t Gain Much From Tumblr

    By Frank Midega - May 19, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    Marissa Mayer, the new Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO means business. New may be relative considering she was head-hunted last July after a 13-year stay at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Aside word of deals to bundle Google out of the iOS platform as the choice provider of search services, Ms Mayer has pleased Wall Street critiques with her radical and direct approach to getting the 1995 found outfit to get back to more »

  • Will Yahoo! Become the Next Big Social Network?

    By Leo Sun - May 19, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO

    Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) has been on a major shopping spree this year. Since taking the helm at Yahoo!, CEO Marissa Mayer has been absorbing smaller mobile app producing businesses, such as Astrid, Jybe, Propeld, Stamped, OnTheAir, Snip.it and Summly. Astrid is a to-do list, Jybe, Propeld and Stamped are social recommendations apps, while Snip.it and Summly are focused on news sharing and summarization.

    Yet with $3.0 billion more »

  • Why You Should Sell Google and Facebook and Invest in Apple

    By Nauman Aly - May 19, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG

    Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock started to rise in 2011 and the price continued to increase steadily throughout 2012. It eventually reached a high of around $700 in at the end of 2012. Many analysts were predicting that the price would continue to increase because Apple exceeded estimated earnings numbers every quarter. On the other hand, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) suffered from the success of Apple’s stock. At that time more »

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