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Why This Gaming Console Is Destined to Fail
By Leo Sun - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, NTDOY.PK, NVDA, SNE
There's no point in being nice about it - Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) upcoming portable game console, Shield, will bomb. Nvidia, which I have been bullish on due to its dominance of the graphics cards field, is about to shoot itself in the foot with a bizarre portable game console that is designed as a hybrid Android and portable PC gaming platform.
Why am I so convinced that the Nvidia more »
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Facebook: From Disaster to Glory?
By Tyler Wofford - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG
The company's IPO was awful, and its stock followed suit by falling nearly 19% in the first four days of its public offering. Since then, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has fallen another 14.7%, however, it is up more than 49% since September. The 18th of May marked Facebook's first birthday. Has it changed in its first year? If so, what other companies have played a role in its more »
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Winners in Streaming Entertainment
By Austin Higgins - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, NFLX, YHOO
More end users are switching to streaming television and movies. This has caused problems for television providers, but companies that have a strong presence or are poised to expand have a great opportunity ahead. Here are the companies that are in play in the streaming entertainment industry.
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX)
Netflix is the giant when it comes to online streaming entertainment. The company suffered when it changed its subscription more »
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The Big Bang Island Theory
By AnnaLisa Kraft - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: GE, GOOG, IBM
Big Bang Theory meet Gilligan's Island meet Survivor. After last week's I/O keynote Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO Larry Page proffered his idea for an island where scientists could study and experiment unconstrained by government regulation or corporate greed.
The maddest of the mad scientists would get to live on Larry Page's Island. How cool is that? I would pay good money to see live feeds of more »
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Billionaire Tiger Cub Blows Off Big Tech
By Marshall Hargrave - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, CMCSA, GOOG, NFLX
John Griffin founded Blue Ridge Capital in 1996 and was once known as billionaire Julian Robertson's right hand man. Griffin and other managers who worked for Robertson at Tiger Management are referred to as "tiger cubs." Griffin's investment method is long/short with a long bias and a focus on long positions in large-cap and high-performance stocks. Outlined below are a few of tiger-cub Griffin's latest moves more »
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Should Gunmakers Invest in Smart Guns?
By Leo Sun - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, SWHC, RGR
If there’s one issue Americans will never agree on, it’s guns. With approximately 40% personal ownership across the country and over 300 million guns in circulation, President Obama will never be able to fully disarm the American public. Efforts to ban assault weapons and extend background checks have failed. Meanwhile, gun ownership background checks have quadrupled since 1999, and gun demand is so high that gunmakers Smith & Wesson more »
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How Yahoo! Went From A Yawner To Game Player
By Tedra DeSue - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO
It’s hard to believe, but just a week ago, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) seemed to be just one of handful of companies trying to catch up with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
The social networking and search engine giants are dominant players in the tech space as they are reaching out beyond their core businesses, and their revenue growth reflects this. Yahoo!, on the other hand, had been more »
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Do you Tumblr?
By David Danna - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, YHOO
Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) latest attempt to revitalize its lagging business was unveiled last week when Yahoo CEO and former Googler Marissa Myer announced the $1.1 billion purchase of blogging service Tumblr. Yahoo is spending a third of their cash on this deal in an attempt to entice a younger more tech savvy audience to Yahoo’s platform. But there’s one thing missing from their plan, Yahoo’s more »
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Can Google's Run Continue?
By Robert Baillieul - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, EBAY, GOOG
As Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares approach the four digit mark, it's only reasonable for investors to wonder if the stock as gotten ahead of itself.
But that's definitely not the case with Google. There're so maybe great stories in company's burgeoning empire that shares still have lots of room to run. Here're five reasons Google can continue higher.
Mobile
The smartphone market is saturated. Today more »
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Should You Invest in Yahoo?
By Riddhi Shah - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, MSFT, YHOO
Now that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is very much in limelight after acquiring Tumblr then I am sure many investors will have a question – ‘Should I invest in Yahoo?’ . So, let’s go through some parameters before drawing any conclusions.
Revenue from search
In 2012 the Management structure of the company changed a lot. Most prominent being Marissa Mayer introduced to Yahoo as the new CEO. It has been very evident more »
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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 »
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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 »
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DUPLICATE:Tax Evasions Bad For Economy, Good for Investor
By Frank Midega - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, HPQ, MSFT, YHOO
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is definitely one of the most widely reported on tech companies, by the minute covering more column inches than St.Valentine on a sunny February morning on the 14th.
Will apple need a PR exercise after this; perhaps pull a corporate Chernobyl –size cleanup exercise? What will be the public sentiments to the American company that as many hold dear as others equally detest. Apple, the more »
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Tax Evasions Bad For Economy, Good for Investor
By Frank Midega - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, HPQ, MSFT, YHOO
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is definitely one of the most widely reported on tech companies, by the minute covering more column inches than St.Valentine on a sunny February morning on the 14th.
Will apple need a PR exercise after this; perhaps pull a corporate Chernobyl –size cleanup exercise? What will be the public sentiments to the American company that as many hold dear as others equally detest. Apple, the more »
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There's No Such Thing as a Halfway Nook
By Michael Carter - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: BKS, DELL, GOOG, HPQ, MSFT
Over $2 trillion is spent each year on acquisitions, including purchases of entire companies, divisions, or company components. However, study after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions of all variations between 70%-90%. This month's TechCrunch report, citing leaked internal documents concerning Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) possibly dropping $1 billion to take the NOOK e-reader business off Barnes & Noble’s (NYSE: BKS) hands, sent Barnes’ stock up more »
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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 »
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Did Google Admit Defeat?
By Tyler Wofford - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EBAY, GOOG
Did Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wave the white flag as a sign of defeat to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY)? Surely not. Google is far larger, far more established, and even more well known than these other two companies, yet it recently announced that it plans to shut down Google Checkout. What are its future plans, and did they admit defeat?
First of all, Google Checkout is Google's more »
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By Moving to Acquire Tumblr, The Reasons to Own Yahoo Have Completely Changed
By Salvatore "Sam" Mattera - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, YHOO, YELP
Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board agreed to buy blogging website Tumblr on Sunday for $1.1 billion. Even in the unlikely event that the deal doesn't go through, the move to acquire Tumblr has radically altered the outlook for Yahoo’s stock.
Yahoo! was a capital return story
Since activist shareholder Dan Loeb got involved in the fall of 2011, the case for Yahoo! has really been about potential more »
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The Future of Mobile Technology
By Robert Palmer - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: AXP, GOOG
Wearable Mobile Technology
Google Inc. (GOOG-NasdaqGS) has correctly predicted the future of mobile technology for the consumer. Will hand held smartphones go the way of the CD? If Google has anything to say about smartphones they may become redundant in the very near future. Every year the telecommunication technology sector advances significantly. Mobile technology is about to take a light year leap with the introduction of Google Glass for more »
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This Two Powerful Internet Companies May Keep Outperforming
By Federico Zaldua - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, MSFT, YHOO
The Nasdaq index is having a great year so far. Its up by 15.8% Year To Date (YTD) but two of its main companies have largely outperformed it. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), the two most powerful search engines in the internet world, are up by 33.5% and 28.4% respectively. The reasons for their out-performance is different in each case but the prospects for both more »