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The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) prepared a $3 billion bid for Snapchat, but was rejected by the company. Snapchat is a rapidly growing messaging service where users take photos, record videos and text. Users then set a time limit of one to 10 seconds for...

China may have the world's largest number of internet users, close to 600 million -- but that is only 44 percent internet penetration compared to United States’ 81 percent. And analysts agree there is tremendous room for growth, as the number of internet-users in China increase rapidly. Baidu (...

Buoyed by the likes of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) and Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Lazarus act, just to name a few, Internet ETFs have been stellar performers this year. Not only has the First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund (NYSE: FDN) gained more than 30 percent this year...

This weekend in Barron's online: a profile of a Wall Street titan, a tribute to a former Barron's editor and columnist, and the prospects for Ryder System, Tencent and ING U.S. Cover Story "Cues from Cooperman" by Lawrence C. Strauss. This article says that Leon Cooperman, chairman and CEO of...