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Among the social media companies based in the United States, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw significant upswings in short interest between the September 13 and September 30 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI),...

According to Forbes, analyst Jonathan Krinsky of Miller Tabak recently drew an interesting parallel between four contemporary tech stocks – Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) – and the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the 1990s – Cisco (...

Washington isn’t doing Wall Street any favors. Between the government shutdown, debt ceiling bickering, and a whole lot of press conferences with enough drama to keep up with the Kardashians, investors are running scared. The S&P 500 is only down about 2.3 percent since the government shut...

Shares of the following exchange traded funds are trading more than 20 percent higher than 90 days ago, and they are within 10 percent of their 52-week highs. This set of ETFs provides a peek at areas investors have focused on in the third quarter, even as interest rates crept up, during the...

A recent survey by statista found that nearly one in three Americans (29 percent) log on to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) at least once during working hours every day. Second on the list was Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Mail which was visited by a little more than 24 percent of the U.S. workforce on a daily...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) saw significant upswings in short interest between the August 30 and September 13 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI),...

In a blog post Saturday, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) said accusations that it “breaks into” member email accounts are false. The accusations came in the form of a class action lawsuit filed against the company last week. The lawsuit, with pertinent sections underlined, was posted on Scribd by Gigaom...

It should be no surprise that when the analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald released their recommendations for stocks to buy to take advantage of the changing landscape in technology, it included such giants as Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:...

In what can only be described as the biggest surprise announcement of the week, Twitter announced that it has confidentially submitted an S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned IPO. It did not take more than a few hours for this became the most talked about story in technology...

If you thought a Carl Icahn tweet couldn’t be upstaged, you were wrong. Exactly one hour after the closing bell, Twitter announced on its own site that it had filed a confidential S-1 for a planned IPO. This was huge news. We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, short interest generally dwindled between the August 15 and August 30 settlement dates. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw the sharpest drops in in the number of shares sold short. Short interest in eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI) and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) saw significant upswings in short interest between the July 31 and August 15 settlement dates. They bucked the trend, though. Short interest in Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ:...

If a person can really be measured by the company they keep, the modern-day twist on that old-school proverb might alarm you. Today, it might read, “A person can be measured by the social media friends they keep.” From a business perspective, that’s plain scary. CNNMoney reported that a few...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI), Yelp (NYSE: YELP) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw the most significant upswings in short interest between the July 15 and July 31 settlement dates. They bucked the trend, though. Short interest in eBay (...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) created some controversy last weekend after eliminating Bob Mansfield from its executive leadership page. After rumors of his departure began to circulate, Apple confirmed that Mansfield had stepped down, but will remain at the company. "Bob will no longer be on Apple's...