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Friday, February 17, 2012 - 12:05pm
Baidu Beats on Earnings, Sets Up Brazilian Showdown with Google
Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), the Chinese search engine giant, reported that quarterly revenue rose 82.5% as the company increased its mobile user presence. Fourth-quarter net income attributable to Baidu increased to RMB 2,050 billion, or $326.3 million, from RMB 1,161 a year earlier, the Beijing, China-...
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The Internet Beats Dating, Partying, Status Symbols
Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:00amAfter a few serious weeks covering Echo Boomers, it's time for a funny article about the Millennial generation. For Generation Y, the internet ranks as most important, according to an article, over things like partying, dating, going out with friends or even status symbols (like cars). Get this:...
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Search Engine Trends: Google (GOOG) Is Unbeatable
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 12:25pmOnce again…and with no surprise. Google (GOOG) continues to dominate the search engine industry with a massive 65.1% market share. Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft's Bing (MSFT) come in a distant second and third place at 16.1% and 14.4% respectively. It has now been confirmed that Google will be...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 8:32am
Double U, Double U, Double U Dot Anything?The Internet is moving way beyond dot-com, and websites will soon end in anything the owner wants it to be. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), used to allow 22 suffixes for websites, such as ".com" and ".org", will now allow suffixes for almost any word in any...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 4:51pm
More Chinese Web IPOs To ComeIt seems that the BRIC's are partying like its 1999. Tech fever has hit the emerging market nations as a string of Chinese web IPOs have entered the marketplace. Web browser and security provider Qihoo 360 (NASDAQ: QIHU) is the latest of many, including YouTube imitator Youku.com (NASDAQ: YOKU) and...
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10x Return Stocks (Part 1)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 4:24amWhen people think about 10 bagger stocks, they often think about all the wonderful growth stocks that gradually return 10x over time. Over the weekend, we ran some filters to seek out the current stocks that returned 10x between their lows and their highs during the past decade, to see how these...
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Plenty Of Hiring - Just Not In America
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 2:06amPeople often ask where the jobs are with all the money sloshing around by the Fed. The fact is, there are plenty of jobs around, with companies hiring in the thousands. To know what is going on, the following three articles should provide a clue: Foxconn Hiring 400000 Additional Workers Over...
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Plenty Of Hiring - Just Not In America
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 2:05amPeople often asked where the jobs are with all the money sloshing around by the Fed. The fact is, there are plenty of jobs around, with companies hiring in the thousands. To know what is going on, the following three articles should provide a clue: Foxconn Hiring 400000 Additional Workers Over...
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Broadband Infrastructure Build-Out
Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 4:56pmMany investors focusing on the infrastructure sector tend to look at roads, water systems, power grids and the like, they often ignore the need for high speed internet and communications networks. In growing and developing nations these networks will need to be created in order to facilitate...
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ComScore (SCOR) Says Q4's Online Sales Up on Y-o-Y Basis, First Time Since 2008
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 10:19pmThe numbers are in, and they're good... finally. The ongoing migration from retail stores to online stores continued in the fourth quarter of 2009, but had still been declining on a year-over-year basis. Things changed in the fourth quarter, however. Digital data provider comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq:...
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