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There is a perception among businesses and people that nothing kept online is secure anymore. A major cyberattack on Facebook would only serve to tremendously reinforce that.
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Twitter remains more than difficult for most investors to value using traditional earnings and revenue metrics. And millions upon millions of shares under the IPO lock-up having been freed.
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The stock price plunge at Twitter began on April 29 when the company reported first-quarter results that included a marked slowdown in user growth. Shares are down nearly 25% since then.
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ThinkstockHong Kong-listed Tencent Holdings reported a jump of 60% in first-quarter earnings Wednesday morning, to $1.05 billion from about $628 million in the first quarter a year ago. The Chinese...
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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...
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Tech stocks had an absolute field day Monday, with Internet stocks up around 2%. One of the most heavily traded of the techs, Facebook, was up about 3.5% and was the morning's most actively traded...
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King Digital Entertainment PLC (NYSE: KING) had a rather poor week. In a week that saw the DJIA and S&P 500 end basically flat, post-IPO investors might have been hoping for more but did not get...
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courtesy of TwitterTwitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) has had its fill of problems. We have warned over and over how media interest could turn on it and drive down use, mainly because Twitter is capable of...
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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...
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The lock-up period for some 400 million shares of Twitter has come and gone, but the impact is just beginning to be felt by investors.
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Wikimedia CommonsGroupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) has reported its first quarter earnings for 2014. The daily deals and discounts reported earnings of -$0.01 per share, and revenue was $757.6 million....
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The Twitter IPO lockup expiration has arrived. Many shareholders are now free to sell. And sell they will do. Many Twitter investors own this at a tiny cost basis and this is finally their time to...
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On Tuesday, a huge block of the outstanding common stock of Twitter exits the 180-day lock-up period following the company's IPO in November. It is unlikely new shares will hit the market en masse.
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24/7 Wall St. wanted to look at Groupon's earnings expectations, as well as looking to see whether the daily deals and discounts website is a winner or it needs to create a living will.
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LinkedIn has reported its first-quarter earnings and revenues, beating on both estimates. The professional network saw real volatility after its report.
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