In my article, ‘œGoogle’s Brilliant New Weapon To Fight Facebook,’ I described Google’s new weapon ‘œSearch plus Your World’. Search plus Your World changed Google’s ranking in its search results. Google started emphasizing results from Google+ social network at the expense of Facebook and Twitter. Now a few engineers from
Shares of Google GOOG +0.01% lost about 8% after the Internet giant missed earnings. Google is a cheap stock; the big drop cannot be justified by missing earnings alone. The three real reasons behind the big drop in Google’s stock price are Amazon AMZN -0.04% , Apple l AAPL +0.06%
Is Iran buying large quantities of uranium ore or yellowcake? It is true that Iran has an extensive uranium enrichment program. It is true that Iran is making progress in its nuclear program. It is also true that Iran in the past has claimed that it was forced to resort
Apple reports earnings on Tuesday, January 24, after the close of trading. The consensus estimate is for $9.97 in earnings and $ 38.73 per share for revenues. Of course, as usual, breakdown of numbers by product category will drive the price of Apple stock. Over last three years, I
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I detailed the attack by hackers on Symantec, the maker of popular Norton Antivirus software in my article, ‘œLords Of Kings Hack Norton Antivirus, Are You Safe?’ Subsequently, Symantec’s take on the hacking was detailed in ‘œSymantec Says Norton Is Safe After Lords of Kings Attack.’ Symantec had stated that
Steve Jobs had a dream of making traditional textbooks obsolete. Now Apple (AAPL) has promised to reinvent textbooks. Today Apple introduced iBooks 2. iBooks 2 can be purchased, starting today, from Apple’s iBooks store. iBooks 2 is rich in swiping and pinching gestures, animations and video. Apple is
Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Morgan Stanley (MS) are rocketing as of this writing. Financial sector, as represented by ETF SPDR Select Sector Fund – Finan (XLF) is one of the top performing sectors in 2012. Subscribers to ZYX Global Multi Asset Allocation Alert have achieved a
ZAGG (ZAGG) makes covers and other accessories for mobile devices. This is a highly competitive area where for the most part products are not differentiated. ZAGG stock continues to levitate because the company issues higly promotional statements to investors. ZAGG’s promotions are helped by a brokerage firm that may
Renesola Ltd, (SOL) is a solar stock. Subsidies from the government in Germany have been a big part of the solar business. Cuts in solar energy subsidies will be implemented on a monthly, rather than on a half-yearly basis, with a goal of phasing them out for some facilities by 2017,