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Big Short Interest Swings in eBay, Facebook, Yelp
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 1:25pm | 898Read More...eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Yelp (NYSE: YELP) saw big upswings in short interest between the March 15 and March 28 settlement dates Other social media companies based in the United States that also saw the number of shares sold short rise in the period include Angie's List (...
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Short Interest Swings in Social Media Stocks (FB, GOOG, GRPN)
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 11:35am | 951Read More...Short sellers piled on to Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) in the wake of the ouster of the company's chief executive officer. Short interest for these other social media companies based in the United States also rose between the February 28 and March 15 settlement dates: Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI),...
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Short Interest Swings in Social Media Stocks (FB, GRPN, LNKD)
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 3:20pm | 871Read More...Short sellers continued to pile on to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Pandora (NYSE: P) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) between the February 15 and February 28 settlement dates. But they shied away from other social media companies based in the United States during that period. The short...
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Short Sellers Rush Back in to Certain Social Media Stocks (EBAY, FB, ZNGA)
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 1:54pm | 878Read More...While short sellers generally shied away from social media companies based in the United States in late January, they came rushing back to certain stocks in the first two weeks of February. The number of shares sold short in Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI), eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB...
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Akamai, Murphy Oil and Other Stocks Insiders Are Buying
Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 2:57pm | 882Read More...Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a...
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Short Sellers Shy Away from Social Media Stocks (EBAY, FB, ZNGA)
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 4:50pm | 845Read More...By and large, the short interest in social media companies based in the United States dwindled in the latter two weeks of January. The short interest in Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI), eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD),...
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LinkedIn Rises 21% After Earnings, "Transformative" Year
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 5:09pm | 443Read More...LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) soared today, rising more than 21 percent after the company announced its fourth quarter results. Revenue climbed 81 percent to $303.6 million versus $167.7 million during the year-ago period. Net income rose to $11.5 million versus $6.9 million for the fourth quarter of...
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Facebook In-Line With Estimates, Investors Not Impressed
Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 4:51pm | 303Read More...Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced its second-quarter earnings today, reporting an EPS of $0.12, in-line with the $0.12 estimate. Revenues were $1.18 billion versus $1.15 billion, beating estimates by 2.6 percent. Facebook's positive (anticipated) results come at a time when the company is...
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Zynga Down Nearly 40%, Facebook Also Takes a Hit
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 4:49pm | 177Read More...Investors are abandoning Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) in after hours trading after the company missed earnings and guided lower than expected. The company, which has been struggling to maintain its success at developing simplistic, mainstream-friendly Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) games, was down as much as 40...
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Will LinkedIn's Redesign Embarrass Twitter and Facebook?
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 12:44pm | 649Read More...LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) is about to unleash its long-awaited redesign to more than 160 million users. Will this be what the company needs to rise above its social media competitors? Or will it prove to be a mistake that tarnishes the company's impeccable image? To most consumers, LinkedIn is a...
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Five Investments for Higgs Boson
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 3:32pm | 486Read More...Earlier this week, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, a sub-atomic particle which essentially explains why matter has its mass. Higgs Boson (also known as the God particle) does not currently have any commercial applications, but the process of discovering it has...
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Is Another LinkedIn Password Leak Coming?
Friday, June 8, 2012 - 2:45pm | 577Read More...As the world recovers from a massive leak involving at least 6.5 million LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) passwords, many users wonder if their information is finally safe. After all, it wasn't that long ago that Zappos.com -- a subsidiary of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) -- had an enormous password leak...
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Were 6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords Really Leaked?
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 1:15pm | 185Read More...Numerous publications are reporting it as fact. But were 6.5 million LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) passwords really leaked this morning? According to LinkedIn's official twitter, "Our team continues to investigate, but at this time, we're still unable to confirm that any security breach has occurred....
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Barron's Recap (5/19/12): Dalio's World and the Einhorn Effect
Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 9:53am | 944Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: Hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio's thoughts on the troubles in Europe, the effect of comments made by David Einhorn, and the consequences of the Facebook IPO flop. Cover Story "Ray Dalio's World" by Sandra Ward. Ray Dalio, fabled hedge-fund manager, is the head of...
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Could Facebook Reach $200 in 12 Months?
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 12:27pm | 822Read More...Now that the long-awaited IPO is finally here, investor attention is turning toward the stock's rise or fall today and the record-breaking growth that may be in its future. Will Facebook soar to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) level? Or is the company more of a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) type of entity, one...
