Coming into today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ) was already down 378 points for the week, and investors were desperately looking for some good news to reverse the market's fortunes. While the Dow started the day above water, by 2:50 p.m. E...
One year ago, daily deals sites were all the rage. Shares of travel-deal specialist Travelzoo ( ) were worth $74, three times what they are now; Open Table, which deals in restaurant reservations and at the time offered daily deals, sold for nearl...
Shares of salesforce.com ( ) hit a 52-week high today. Let's look at how it got here and see whether clear skies are ahead. How it got hereSalesforce is a quintessential cloud-computing stock, plain and simple -- one you need to know about. Its so...
Shares of Baidu ( ) soared 6% on Friday, but the pop had little to do with the Chinese dot-com giant's upcoming quarterly report. A few global consumer-facing Internet companies took off after a Wall Street Journal report claimed that Facebook was...
Companies pay a lot of money to move to the top of a popular search engine's result pages. In China, all you need to do now is be a major state-owned bank. China's Ministry of Public Security is requiring search engines to list five state-owned ba...
Alec Baldwin may love Zynga's Words with Friends so much that he's willing to be booted from AMR's American Airlines flight, but some analysts are out to play their B-E-A-R-I-S-H tiles over a triple-word score bonus. Stern Agee analyst Arvind Bhat...
What is shaping up to be one of the biggest IPO weeks in years is off to a strong start. Jive Software ( ) was originally looking to price its debut between $8 and $10 a share. Healthy demand helped underwriters price the debutante at $12 last nig...
The Chinese social networking site was a hot property when it went public at $14 in May. Two words -- China's Facebook -- were all that underwriters needed to sell hungry investors on this fast-growing dot-com darling. The American depository shar...
