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The Virtual Reality War: Facebook Vs. Google
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 8:12am | 401Read More...This year, virtual reality has been a hotly anticipated trend that investors have been watching closely. The technology has a wide range of uses — from training surgeons to perform complex operations to providing a better movie-watching experience at home, virtual reality appears to be on...
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Gene Munster: Facebook's Valuation Is Reasonable, Oculus Going To Be 'Big Deal'
Monday, March 23, 2015 - 1:56pm | 445Read More...Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) are hitting all-time highs on rumors that the Chinese government may end its ban on the social networking site, in addition to the company launching payment services on its platform. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster was on CNBC Monday to talk about the...
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5 Companies That Should Invest In Normal's Custom-Fit Earphones
Friday, July 11, 2014 - 12:21pm | 945Read More...Is Normal the new normal for earphone manufacturing? If the company's unique concept takes off, it could spawn an entirely new subset within this growing industry. Unlike Beats Electronics and other one-size-fits-all manufacturers, Normal is a startup with one goal in mind: to produce custom...
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Facebook's Oculus Acquires RakNet
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 2:01pm | 115Read More...Oculus, the virtual reality company recently acquired by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), on Monday announced that it acquired RakNet, a startup game networking engine based in Costa Mesa, California. According to the blog, Oculus has open-sourced RakNet under the same modified BSD license that Facebook...
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PMDTechnologies' VR Concept Could Make Facebook Wildly Successful
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 12:14pm | 702Read More...PMDTechnologies has a brilliant idea that could make Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and other virtual reality developers a ton of money. Current VR systems are limited by their couch potato restrictions; that is, users are not able to leave the confines of a chair. They can move their head around and...
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Munster Says Facebook's Instagram Most Important Social Network for Teens; Shares Trade Higher
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 9:12am | 186Read More...Shares of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) are trading higher by 1.65 percent to $58.19 after Gene Munster, analyst at Piper Jaffray, made bullish comments on Instagram. Piper Jaffray conducted a survey of 7.5 thousand teens on what was the most important social network. Teens voted: Instagram - 30%...
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Beware Of What Companies Do With Their Own Stock
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 1:43pm | 735Read More...When a company's share price skyrockets or plummets, it creates opportunities for the company itself. In the case of weakness in the share price, the company can initiate share repurchase programs as they firmly believe the market has undervalued their company. In periods of a broad market decline...
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Wall Street's Thoughts On Zuckerberg's Latest Purchase
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 5:11pm | 364Read More...Mark Zuckerberg is on a shopping spree. On Tuesday after the market close, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced the acquisition of Oculus for $2 billion in cash and stock. Oculus is the leader in immersive virtual reality technology. The acquisition comes just five weeks after Facebook acquired...
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Facebook's Oculus Buy Could Change The Face Of Social Media
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 10:59am | 528Read More...Imagine experiencing a Final Four basketball game, enjoying every spellbinding second, almost as if you were actually there. Only you’re not. Instead, a Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) streaming service provides the experience and pipes it into your Oculus virtual reality headset. Following Facebook’s...
