Technology

Last week I wrote an article entitled “Is the Market Driving You Nuts?”  I thought that today would be a good day to follow up with the first of a series of articles, not on consecutive days or even consecutive weeks, to help underscore the reasons for always looking for the bigger picture.  And there […]

The FasJet shares (LSE:FJET) are so weak that it has the potential to continue going further downwards. It is possible that long positions on the market could go kaput. This is a bear market. Two rams cannot drink from the same calabash. Since the bear is in control of the shares, the bull is in […]

Seeking expansion in the United States. LightInTheBox, a leading global online retailer based in Beijing, China, opened for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “LITB” after an initial public offering of its American depositary shares. Knight Capital Group is the Designated Market Maker (DMM) for the company’s American depositary […]

I’ve been watching ARM Holdings (LSE:ARM) for some time now.  It is a fascinating company on its own merit, regardless of its public status.  It almost defines “leading edge technology,” and it is unique in its offering of proprietary circuit designs without manufacturing the chips themselves.  Its high-performance, power-efficient circuit designs have propelled the company...

Don’t even bother to check the five-year charts for AstraZeneca (LSE:AZN).  If you want to see the big picture, you have to go back more than twice that amount of time to see that the AZN’s share price reached an 11 year high today as is soared by 107.50 pence (3.14%) to 3537.00 this morning. […]

Internet giant promises not to “screw it up” Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Tumblr have announced that they have reached an agreement for Yahoo! to purchase micro-blogging site Tumblr for $1.1bn. Per the agreement and their promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. David Karp will remain […]

Tableau Software Celebrates Public Debut as “DATA” on the New York Stock Exchange Tableau Software, Inc., a provider of business analytics software, opened for trading today on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “DATA” after its initial public offering. The company’s stock opened on the NYSE at $47, up 52% from […]

Michael Dell’s message on the Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) website begins with these words:  “Successful, innovative companies tend to aspire to a greater purpose that goes beyond the bottom line.”  If there were ever a time to test how much he really believes that, it is now. The boardroom discussions must be increasingly more intense at Dell […]

High in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, in the quiet community of Lenoir, North Carolina sits a sprawling facility shrouded in mystery.  Lenoir used to be home to the most well-known scions of furniture manufacturing in the United States, but those factories and jobs have all been moved to China.  The most notable […]

Mobile content provider Mobile Streams (LSE:MOS) continues to turn in stellar performance as demand for its apps, games, music, videos and eBooks increases around the globe.  The company that operates through the cleverly named storefront appitalism® has watched it share price rise from the 4.0 range, where it hovered for several years until September 2010, […]