Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) had a big sell off last week after the company’s second quarter earnings and forward guidance disappointed Wall Street. According to analysts, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s growth for its size is commendable, but the company has to start focusing on generating profits instead of just redeploying the money that it earns back into the business for growth. CNBC’s ‘Fast Money’ trader, Dan Nathan, found an interesting co-relation between Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s stock prices and the media appearances by its CEO, Jeff Bezos, which he discussed along with the company’s future strategies with CNBC’s presenters, Scott Wapner and Melissa…
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BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) launched an app called ‘Guardian’ at the BlackBerry Security Summit 2014, yesterday, that will scan apps on Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Play Store for malwares before downloading them to BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)’s devices. N4BB, a website dedicated to products from BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) described the Guardian app in one of its posts today. It revealed that BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) is looking to allow the Trend Micro service capabilities throughout the BlackBerry 10 operating system. In certain BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)’s devices that run BlackBerry OS 10.3 betas the Guardian app is already available with deep integration. The Guardia app…
The Streaming service, Popcorn Time, which is also known as the Netflix for pirated movies, has released a new version for Windows users that will allow them to view streaming content from Popcorn Time on Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s Apple TV by using AirPlay, Business Insider reported today. Popcorn Time as a pirated streaming service became popular due to its interface, which is a replica of Netflix Interface. Users can stream the pirated copies of their favorite movies or TV shows on Popcorn Time without having to worry about or deleting any evidence as Popcorn TV takes care of that. Apple…
Residents in several states of U.S. get an opportunity every year to make purchases without paying the state sales-tax, which is also commonly referred to as ‘Sales Tax Holidays’. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) seems to have take taken a note of this, as an article on Macrumors, a website dedicated to news and rumors about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and its products, suggests. The article carried a quote from of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s website that said: “If your state offers a tax holiday this summer, you can buy select Apple products without paying sales tax.* When shopping online, sales tax will appear…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) pleasantly surprised the Street last week when it came up with better than expected results. Not only did the company demonstrated a growth in revenues and earnings, but also in mobile advertising revenues, which up until last year was perceived as a major problem area for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) in terms of monetization. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s stock price has also moved in tandem with the growth of the company’s earnings, trading comfortably above the $70 level, ever since the company declared its second quarter earnings. The market cap of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has surpassed some of the biggest…
Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) declared its second-quarter results yesterday after market hours, beating analysts’ expectations on all metrics. The company posted revenue of $312 million, up 124% from last year. The adjusted earnings per share came at $0.02, compared to last year’s negative adjusted EPS of $0.24. The most important number that the Street was looking for was Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)’s monthly active users, which came at 271 million, much above expectations. The major takeaway from Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) results were discussed by Bob Peck, managing director at Suntrust Robinson Humphrey on CNBC. “Five major takes away from the quarter, it’s…
The expectations with Twitter Inc (NASDAQ:TWTR) were huge when it came with its IPO, but the company is failing to stand up to the occasion and generate results that investors want from it. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has demonstrated with its second quarter results that it’s now a force to reckon with and the Street is expecting Twitter Inc (NASDAQ:TWTR) to grow in the same way that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has. So, can Twitter Inc (NASDAQ:TWTR) be the next Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)? That was the topic for discussion between Dan Ernst, Research Analyst at Hudson Square and Jeff Clavier, Founder of…
Ever since Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) came up with its above expectations second quarter results, the Street has shifted focus to Twitter Inc’s (NYSE:TWTR) second quarter results. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) is facing huge expectations from analysts and investors alike, given the company has not been able to perform according to Wall Street’s expectation in the last two quarterly results that it declared. On today’s edition of CNBC’s ‘Halftime Report,’ FMHR (Fast Money: Halftime Report) traders Mike Murphy, Stephanie Link and Joshua Brown – along with Zack Seward, Senior Editor, Quartz – discussed and choose their pick between Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and…
BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) announced today that it has brought the German voice encryption chip maker, Secusmart. Governments and other entities use Securesmart’s technology for making the conversations on phones highly secure. “We are always improving our security solutions to keep up with the growing complexity of enterprise mobility, with devices being used for more critical tasks and to store more critical information, and security attacks becoming more sophisticated,” said John Chen, the Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), was quoted in a statement. Ron Miller, one of TechCrunch’s authors, wrote in his article today that the deal is much…
CNBC announced today that its TV Everywhere App that will stream all its shows will go live on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s Apple TV from today. “Today we are announcing the launch of the CNBC’s TV Everywhere App on Apple TV. You can watch real time streaming of all your favorite market days shows including Squawk Alley, Squawk on the Street and Mad Money plus access our prime time and weekend programming whenever and wherever you want. This is a very big deal in the ongoing chapter of CNBC television both online and on digital,” CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla said on today’s…
When Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) had revealed that it had played with its users news feeds, it created a mini-crisis for the company. Everyone from the media to people on the Street has been complaining about how the company treated its users as guinea pigs and played with their emotions. OkCupid, one of the premier dating sites has also come clean recently, revealing that it has played with users’ profile to test its matching algorithm by selectively hiding their profile texts, pictures and showing matches to users that its own algorithm found non compatible. Even though OkCupid did a grosser thing…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) finally came up with its own digital assistant, ‘Cortana’. The company is way behind Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) in launching its digital assistant, but if the reviews are to be believed, it has definitely come up with a better product than Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s Siri. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) plans to launch Cortana along with its smartphone operating system Windows Phone 8.1, this year, though the developers who installed the Windows 8.1 preview have been able to use Cortana ever since. Search Engine Land, recently came up with a comparative review of…