Amazon reached a new milestone on Tuesday as the company’s shares hit an all-time high, trading at just over $ 704 before dropping slightly to $ 703...
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Jeff Bezos sells $671M worth of Amazon shares in his largest stock sale ever
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold more than 1 million shares of company stock in the past three days, worth a total of $ 671.29 million, according to a...
Shares of Blucora soar after net income rises, continues push into financial services
Blucora, the Bellevue company formerly known as InfoSpace which is pushing heavily into financial services, posted strong results Thursday as a transformation continues under the direction of newly-appointed CEO and former Charles Schwab & Co. executive John S....
Working Geek: Microsoft Chief Experience Officer Julie Larson-Green shares her productivity secrets
Julie Larson-Green has built her career...
Video: Jeff Bezos shares drone’s-eye view of Blue Origin spaceship’s flight
Saturday’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship marked lots of milestones, including the...
Twitter shares dip 7% after Q4 earnings show stalled user growth
Twitter is no longer adding users. In its fourth quarter earnings report posted today, the social media giant said it had 320 million monthly active users — which is exactly what it reported after the third quarter. In fact, excluding users who use Twitter’s “SMS Fast Followers” service that...
Tableau shares continue to sink as Wall Street analysts turn negative
Shares of Tableau Software continued to fall on Monday morning following a devastating fourth quarter financial report in which executives claimed “softness” in customer spending. Tableau lost $ 41 million during the...
Facebook shares up 14 percent in pre-market trading
Facebook shares rose 14 percent, to top $ 107, in pre-market trading Thursday, a day after the social network reported explosive growth in mobile advertising revenue. In its fourth quarter report on Wednesday, Facebook reported that mobile ads accounted for nearly 80 percent of total ad revenue in the company’s latest quarter. That’s up from the 69 percent mobile accounted a year ago. The...
Twitter shares spike briefly on ‘false’ takeover rumors
Rupert Murdoch, who appears to be a big Twitter fan, wanted to own the service, or so the rumors went. On Wednesday, CNBC helped spread the info and Twitter’s share price began to soar. The stock climbed as much 14 percent to $ 19.04 in midday trading. The shares closed...
Shares of British web supermarket rise on Amazon takeover rumors
Amazon is again rumored to be considering a takeover of British-based Web supermarket Ocado, and this time the chatter has led to an 18-percent spike of Ocado’s stock price, according to published reports. The Daily Mail, a...
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