Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) advertising is intimidating a lot of small business because of a combination of factors, Rob Jewell, chief executive officer of Spruce Mail, told Betty Liu in an interview on Bloomberg’s “In The Loop”. In the interview, the executive said that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is focused on making their ad products work. This includes refining ad units and ad types on their network. He added that his company has noticed the social network has come up with a formula for even small businesses to profitably market their products or services on the social network. The remarks coming from…
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Maps can soon be experienced with a tie up between the internet giant and Bungie, Inc., a report from Re/code reveals. The collaboration between Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and the video games maker has resulted in a feature for the game “Destiny,” called “Destiny Planet View,” which in the video embedded below can be seen to be akin to using Google Maps in Mars. Bungie, Inc. will be releasing “Destiny” in a week and the feature is expected by the gaming community to be an interesting novelty. Using “Destiny Planet View,” gamers can explore the Red Planet with…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has inked a licensing deal with Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution over the rights to the show “Gotham”. According to the companies, the deal makes Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) the exclusive streaming partner of the entertainment content producer for “Gotham” in all territories in which Netflix, Inc. operates. The Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) deal with Warner Bros. comes after the content distributor is reported to have nabbed the rights to “The Blacklist” from Sony Pictures TV for a whopping $2 million per episode. The company has also won the rights to “Better Call Saul,” the prequel to AMC’s hit…
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and J C Penney Company Inc (NYSE:JCP) still have massive gains to make despite recent growth in their stocks’ price, Jim Cramer said in a segment on CNBC’s “Off The Charts”. According to Cramer, his data about Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) which hit an all-time high on Tuesday, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) which is within a point of its peak, and J C Penney Company Inc (NYSE:JCP) come from chartist and RealMoney.com analyst Dan Fitzpatrick. Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Cramer said, hit an all-time-high surging to $272 on Friday before hitting another all-time-high on…
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares on Tuesday rallied to all-time-high levels after analysts at Stifel Nicolaus Corp. upgraded the stock to “Buy” with a very bullish price target of $400, a report from Yahoo Finance notes. According to the financial services firm’s James Albertine, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has a “sizable head start” compared to any possible rival in terms of production. Albertine proposed that observers see Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) in a different light. If the automaker is considered as a “slightly bigger than niche” luxury electric car maker, the manufacturer has virtually no competitors. In his note about…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) may face a hurdle in their acquisition of WhatsApp as regulators in the European Union have sent a new questionnaire about the deal to rival companies and consumers, a report from The Wall Street Journal notes. According to the publication, the survey over the Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) deal to acquire the messaging services company is “an unusual move” which is seen to possibly hinder the deal from being finalized. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is hoping to acquire WhatsApp for about $19 billion. The questionnaire aims to give the European Commission, the antitrust agency of the European Union, an…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has released its most powerful desktop processor yet, the Intel® Core™ i7-5960X processor Extreme Edition, the company’s first 8-core desktop processor. According to Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) which made its announcement at the recent Penny Arcade Expo Prime (PAX Prime) in Seattle, Washington, the new processor is intended to be used by power users who have the highest demands from their desktop computers. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) noted that the Intel® Core™ i7-5960X processor, initially codenamed “Haswell-E,” is the first consumer processor from the company to support 16 computing threads and the DDR4 memory standard. It also appears as…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iCloud being allegedly hacked has triggered a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a report from Bloomberg’s “First Up” discusses. The investigation into the alleged hacking of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) service which led to the scandal comes after the leak of dozens of private photos of celebrities in the U.S. and the U.K. on Sunday. Among the most popular celebrities whose alleged risqué photos started being leaked over the weekend is Jennifer Lawrence. According to Bloomberg’s Zeb Eckert, the representatives of the three-time Oscar-nominated actress have contacted the authorities. Eckert continued saying that hundreds of…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s Instagram has launched “Hyperlapse,” an application to create what it calls “high-quality time lapse videos”. The app uses image stabilization technology integrated by the Instagram team at Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) into the app. This technology is most likely the result of Instagram’s acquisition of Luma, a company that once made a video capture app with image stabilization and sharing features, in August 2013. Luma was the first company to be acquired by Instagram. “Traditionally, time lapse videos depend on holding your phone or camera still while you film. Hyperlapse from Instagram features built-in stabilization technology that lets…
T-Mobile US Inc (NYSE:TMUS) will continue being a low-cost carrier for the foreseeable future, John Butler of Bloomberg Intelligence said in a discussion on “Bloomberg West”. The discussion about T-Mobile US Inc (NYSE:TMUS) comes as the team also discussed Deutsche Telekom AG’s recent admission that it is still interested in divesting its ownership of the U.S. wireless carrier. “They are out there as the low-cost provider and I don’t see that changing. They really have stuck to their guns in terms of branding themselves as the ‘consumer-friendly carrier’ out there really using price as the key weapon and for good…
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is also testing delivery via drones as it has revealed what it is calling “Project Wing” under its Google X’s moonshots group on Thursday. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the company successfully tested delivering “candy bars, dog treats, cattle vaccines, water and radios” using a drone developed under “Project Wing” earlier this month to two farmers in Queensland, Australia. The news of the Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) project comes as companies such as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) are also developing ways to deliver via drones. Nonetheless, it seems the internet search…
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) will be using the insights learned from crunching the data gathered from the technology front of the US Open to do better in business, the technology veteran revealed in a report from The Street. International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) is the official information technology provider working in tandem with the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to analyze the data gathered from people who are visiting the website as well as the applications for the US Open. According to The Street’s Ruben Ramirez, the Watson system of International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) will be analyzing the…