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After Alcoa (NYSE: AA) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) kicked off the second-quarter earnings season last week, things ramp up this week with reports from many of the big banks, some tech giants and other blue-chips. Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) get...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) owned YouTube has joined Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) in blaming Internet service providers for poor streaming quality. In a blue bar underneath the message, “Experiencing interruptions?” asks users to click “find out why.” Doing so brings...

For anyone who ever wondered what Silicon Valley could accomplish in a sports stadium, wonder no more. When the home of the San Francisco 49ers, also known as Levi’s Stadium, opens in two months, the football world will learn what happens when tech giants collaborate with the NFL. The $1....

Two years after its initial public offering, any investor that participated in the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO is sitting on a nice profit. Since debuting at $42.00 on May 18, 2012, it has been a wild ride for investors in the issue. After closing at $38.23 that day, it went into a tailspin that...

AOL, Kinder Morgan and Tyco International are among the companies that have seen insider buying lately. So is Opko Health, which sees insiders frequently scooping up shares. Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but conventional wisdom says that insiders really only buy shares of...

Alibaba.com is big. From a transaction volume standpoint, $240 billion big, according to Wall Street Journal sources. That’s twice the size of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and three times the size of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). From a revenue perspective, however, Alibaba’s nearly $8 billion in 2013 revenue...

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), which announced that its most popular sites were promptly updated after the 'Heartbleed' bug was revealed last week, is scheduled to share its first-quarter 2014 results Tuesday, April 15, after the closing bell. Investors and analysts will still be looking for updates on...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has acquired more than 100 companies since 1997 -- was yours one of them? If not, what would it take for you to build a startup that Yahoo cannot resist? From social companies like Vizify and recruiting firms like Distill to image recognition enterprises like LookFlow and IQ...

Warren Buffett inspired people to take a chance on a dream with the Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge. Registration for QuickenLoans Billion Dollar Bracket closed on March 20 at 1:00 a.m. EDT, and the fun was over for many shortly after the games started. "If it gets down to the...

When you want to announce something important you wait until late Friday, right? That’s what the Obama administration did when they announced plans to give up a key role the United States plays in overseeing the Internet. In a press release, the Department of Commerce said that its...

Depending on who you are and what you love, this may not have seemed like an overly eventful week. After all -- if you don't love Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), you may not have cared that it went down. But if you do love the social network, this week might have seemed like a nightmare. The same could be...

Maybe you’re not a big fan of Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) search engine because Google is just a URL away. Yahoo is working hard to change that and Wednesday’s announcement is another way that CEO Marissa Mayer hopes to bring you, and others, back to Yahoo’s search engine. Wednesday, Yahoo...

Following the recent launch of the company’s Gemini ad platform, which creates a common marketplace for buying mobile search and native ads, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has started testing mobile app install ads - just like the ones Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) already has. It was a “catch up” move,...

In order to compete with the likes of Google and Microsoft's Bing in the area of search, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) needs a twist, an angle, a gimmick, or a better idea. Yahoo hopes Yelp (NYSE: YELP), can be that better idea. In effect, Yahoo needs to differentiate itself from both Google and Bing...