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Samsung has decided that Google has become too powerful in the portable device consumer electronics business. Google's Android has steamrolled the smartphone industry.
After a year and a half of on-and-off skepticism about its prospects, Apple's shares could breach their all-time high of $705.07 reached on September 21, 2012. The stock topped $644 last week.
ThinkstockSometimes strange things happen in local court cases against large multinational companies that are based in the United States and elsewhere. Reports are out, sourcing the ISNA news outlet,...
ThinkstockThe consumer market research firm NPD group says the numbers are in for April sales of video games, and they are up big. Sales grew a whopping 17% for the month and were way ahead of most...
Yahoo! has acquired privately held Blink for an undisclosed sum. Now that Yahoo! is about to juice up its war chest in the coming IPO of Alibaba, CEO Marissa Mayer could take another look at buying...
ThinkstockSometimes despite good earnings and outlooks, great stocks get caught up in sell-offs like the one we experienced from late February through much of April. What started as biotech sell-off...
In one of the few tech M&A deals that was not leaked well ahead of the transaction, Yahoo! has bought mobile message app company Blink. Even Blink had little to offer in detail.
Downloads for April indicate that the total market for apps grew by 1.5% in the month. Also, the Apple App Store posted a small revenue gain, compared with a small revenue loss at the Google Play...
Shares of Electronic Arts posted a new 52-week high in the opening minutes of trading Wednesday, following a monumental earnings beat after markets closed Tuesday night.
King Digital Entertainment released strong first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened on Wednesday morning. The company said gross bookings were up 193% year-over-year.
A new research report from Jefferies points out that free shipping was part of most transactions in 2013, so the focus has shifted to faster delivery. These companies are the leaders in same-day...
Electronic Arts Inc.Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) reported a fourth fiscal quarter and full-year 2014 results after markets closed on Tuesday. The games company posted quarterly adjusted diluted...
King Digital Entertainment has seen its quiet period come to an end. Now the underwriters who participated in the initial public offering are free to cover it with official analyst research reports...
Courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) share of the smartphone market in the U.S  continued to drop, as Samsung’s continued to grow. According to new data from comScore, Apple’s...
Courtesy of Apple Inc.Consumers expect free shipping and free returns from companies such as Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT). As a matter of fact, one of...