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Showtime Cashes In With Record Audience For 'Billions' Debut
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 3:17pm | 316Read More...Between "Homeland," "The Affair" and "Ray Donovan" (among others), CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS)'s Showtime has slowly come into its own over the past years in the original series realm. No longer seen as an also-ran to the Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX-owned HBO, the network been able to add new hit...
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Winners And Losers (So Far) From CES 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 3:24pm | 348Read More...Several companies have emerged as big winners during the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, while investors punished others. Winners Shares of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) surged higher by more than 6 percent on Wednesday after the company's CEO, Reed Hastings, took center stage at CES and...
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Facebook's Oculus Rift Price Set At $599, To Ship In March
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 2:18pm | 182Read More...Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) were trading higher on Wednesday after the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Oculus Rift is now available for pre-order. In a Facebook update, Zuckerberg said that the Oculus Rift device is available for pre-order on shop.oculus.com for $599. He...
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Class Action Suit Against Facebook Accuses Company Of Hiding Concerns About Growth Forecasts
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 9:32am | 224Read More...Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) were trading lower by 0.35 percent early Wednesday morning as reports of a class action suit against the company began surfacing on Tuesday. According to Fortune, a U.S. federal judge certified two shareholder class action suits against Facebook which allege...
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Street Sweeper Smacks MagicJack VocalTec
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 2:14pm | 510Read More...Shares of magicJack VocalTec Ltd (NASDAQ: CALL) fell more than 4 percent Wednesday morning. The Street Sweeper published a negative report on magicJack, noting the company's "magic" is "vanishing quicker than street magician David Blaine can make a new quarter disappear." The publication added the...
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Facebook's Q3 Earnings Impressed Investors - Was Wall Street Equally Impressed?
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 10:27am | 1013Read More...Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) eclipsed its prior 52-week high of $105.12 after the company reported its third-quarter results on Wednesday. Facebook earned $0.57 per share in the third quarter on revenue of $4.5 billion, while analysts were looking for $0.52 per share and $4.37 billion...
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Facebook's Q3 Earnings Are Out On Wednesday: Here Is What You Need To Know
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 4:12pm | 844Read More...Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) broke above the $100 per share mark in late October and are higher by nearly 40 percent from a year ago. The company is scheduled to report its third-quarter results on Wednesday afternoon. Analysts are mostly positive ahead of the print and expect the...
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High Hopes For Facebook, Disney Earnings This Week
Sunday, November 1, 2015 - 9:00pm | 938Read More...It will be a busy week again on the earnings front, with many blue chip companies reporting. Results from Facebook and Disney are among the most highly anticipated and forecast to be strong. Expectations are lower for Sprint, Tesla and Visa, perhaps offering them wiggle room to surprise...
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Barron's Recap: Bad News For Intel
Sunday, November 1, 2015 - 8:52pm | 945Read More...The cover story in this weekend's Barron's takes a look at who benefits from new cloud chip technologies. This issue also includes picks from the Barron's Emerging Markets Roundtable, as well as a closer look at inflation indexes. The prospects for Kinder Morgan, Pfizer, Avis...
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Fluent CMO Says Email Might Be The Path To Advertising's 'Holy Grail'
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 1:17pm | 1223Read More...Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (formerly Google Inc) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)’s recent ad platform updates came about because cookies don’t function properly in mobile browsers, according to Fluent CMO, Jordan Cohen. Marketers with large email lists could be winners...
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Sponsorhub's Acquisition By Rentrak Corporation Creates Synergy, Says CEO
Sunday, October 4, 2015 - 9:15am | 1136Read More...The acquisition of Sponsorhub by Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) creates synergy between the two companies. Sponsorhub provides advertisers and sponsors with unique insight into sports and entertainment related chatter on social media. One of Sponsorhub’s specialties is tracking fan...
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Wall Street Likes Virtual Reality Despite Absence Of A 'Killer App'
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 8:34am | 368Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) announced during the Oculus Developer Conference on Thursday a 50 percent price cut for the Gear VR (mobile VR solutions) to $99. Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray commented in a note that the VR theme is "building momentum." Ben Schachter of Macquarie stated that 2016 will...
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Baird: India's 'Internet Tiger' Is Beginning To Roar
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 3:55pm | 313Read More...Baird's Colin Sebastian said that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) are in prime position to benefit from India as an Internet growth market. Year-to-date, all three of these names have outperformed the NASDAQ 100, with Amazon...
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Hedge Fund Manager: Why Twitter Could 'Rally Hard'
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 3:50pm | 348Read More...Todd Sullivan was recently a guest on #PreMarket Prep, a daily trading idea radio show hosted by Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick. Hedge Fund Manager and Rand Strategic Partners Founder Todd Sullivan told Benzinga that a new story could change the way the market perceives Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR),...
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Weekly Tech Highlights: Apple's Big Event, Facebook Hits 1B Users In 24 Hours And More
Sunday, August 30, 2015 - 8:29pm | 713Read More...August came to a close with a highly anticipated event announcement and a social media milestone. Apple Confirmed Its September 9 Event, Teased Siri Announcement Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) confirmed its event this week when it began to send out invitations for the September 9 extravaganza. As always...














