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For at least one day this year, an app for the iPad generated more revenue for its creator than one of the two most popular games for the mobile device. TurboTax finished number two on the charts.
ThinkstockThe Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), which performs the same function for the Canadian government that the Internal Revenue Service does in the U.S., announced today that it has been bitten...
ThinkstockIAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI), which already owns dating website match.com, recently added another 10% to its majority stake in the mobile dating app Tinder. The purchase price was...
ThinkstockYears ago, Peter Lynch was the chief equity strategist at Fidelity when it ruled the investment landscape. One of his tried and true focus groups was his own family, especially his teenage...
ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is supposed to the most important of the publicly traded Web 2.0 companies. The conclusion is natural. The world’s largest social network has 1.1 billion...
Amazon.com has started a new grocery delivery system, which puts it in competition with the nation's largest supermarket chains, as well has tens of thousands of local groceries.
ThinkstockMobile device users spent two hours and 42 minutes of their time on those devices in March, up just 2.5% over March 2013. Of that time spent, 86% was spent using apps, up from 80% a year...
Wikimedia Commons (Lee-Sean Huang)For all the work he did to help Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) become the third most valuable public company in the U.S. , CEO and founder Larry Page was paid $1 in...
Consumers have been able to use Microsoft's key Office programs on the Mac, but CEO Satya Nadella's press briefing on Thursday said the new Office for iPad is available for download now.
King Digital Entertainment, the Ireland-based maker of the hugely popular Candy Crush Saga game for mobile devices, held its IPO Wednesday morning. In the first few minutes of trading shares fell as...
Courtesy Mega Ltd.Internet entrepreneur — and wanted man — Kim Dotcom has agreed to acquire a New Zealand shell company, TRS Investments, in a reverse merger with his latest company, Mega Ltd....
Shares of Pandora Media continue their recent slide, getting crushed by more than 10% Monday morning. Apple is considering the launch of an iTunes Radio app for Android, and maybe an entirely new...
Wikimedia CommonsGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) continues to keep its dominant share of the U.S. search market taking 67.5% last month. Try as they might, its competitors have not been able to make...
Borderfree offered 5 million shares in an initial public offering Friday morning. Shares priced at the top of their expected range. Shares were up more than 20% in morning trading.
Amber Road, a maker of cloud-based software for global trade management, held its initial public offering (IPO) Friday, selling 7.4 million shares at a price of $13 a piece. Shares were up 30% in...