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The oil and gas industry will be well represented on this week's earnings stage, with reports due from supermajors Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX), and many others in the field. Viacom (NYSE: VIAB) and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will be the highlights among the various media companies...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Yelp (NYSE: YELP) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw the most significant upswings in short interest between the June 28 and July 15 settlement dates. Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Groupon (...

Among the social media companies based in the United States, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Yelp (NYSE: YELP) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw the most significant upswings in short interest between the June 14 and June 28 settlement dates. Shutterfly (NASDAQ: SFLY) also saw the number of its shares sold...

What happened to the good old days when stocks were priced in fractions, brokers had a telephone handset on each ear, and tech companies were growth stocks? All of that, including the latter, has changed—at least to some extent. Technology stocks are supposed to be a trader’s dream. If you’re...

Among the social media players, Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw the most significant upswings in short interest between the May 31 and June 14 settlement dates. Other social media companies based in the United States that also saw the number of...

Among the social media players, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yelp (NYSE: YELP) saw the biggest swings in short interest between the May 15 and May 31 settlement dates. Other social media companies based in the United States that also saw the number of shares sold short rise...

Among the social media players, Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw the biggest swings in short interest between the April 30 and May 15 settlement dates. Other social media companies based in the United States that also saw the number of shares sold...

Among the social media players, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw the biggest swings in short interest between the April 15 and April 30 settlement dates. Other social media companies based in the United States that also saw the number of shares sold short...

If you’re old enough, you remember the original Star Wars movie from 1977 where a hologram of Princess Leia says, “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.” Movie watchers, at the time, believed that technology like that would go from science fiction to mainstream technology. If science...

Value investors have waited for this to happen for a while. This tech company hasn’t garnered the media attention of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) but on Friday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer came out singing its praises. Just because Cramer likes it doesn’t mean you should, but this stock may have given value...

First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...

Among the social media players, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) saw big swings in short interest between the March 28 and April 15 settlement dates. Other social media companies based in the United States that also saw the number of shares sold short rise in...

Cyber security matters. Just ask The Associated Press. Or Wall Street. By now, everyone knows that somebody hacked AP’s Twitter account and sent out a fake tweet reporting two explosions at the White House and that President Obama had been injured. In the minutes after the tweet went out,...

To be fair, the blog post by LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) Senior Vice President Deep Nishar on Thursday wasn’t meant to be a press release. It was meant to be a first person account of the background behind the company’s acquisition of popular newsreader, Pulse and the unique connection the entities...