Another day, another upgrade for restaurant reservation service OpenTable. Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler this morning lifted his rating on the company?s shares to Outperform from Market Perform, setting a price target of $50. The stock closed Wednesday at $41.06. The upgrade follows a similar move yesterday by Benchmark Co. analyst James Dobson. Kessler notes ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 17:55

The House and Commerce Committee sent letters today to 34 iPhone app developers ??? including , Path, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram ??? asking how their social apps collect user information. The letters can be found here. It?s all part of an investigation into iPhone privacy that was initiated after Path, a social networking ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:06

Guest post written by Bill Harris Bill Harris, former CEO of PayPal and Intuit, is now CEO of Personal Capital, a financial advisory firm. There's a fissure that runs through Silicon Valley - and I don?t mean the San Andreas fault. The gap that I'm talking about is between tech companies and their employees. Tech ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:16

I coauthored this piece with??Gunnar Counselman, the founder and CEO of Fidelis, a venture-backed technology company that partners with leading colleges, veterans' organizations, and companies to solve the military-to-career transition for the nation's service members.??He has also been a colleague of mine for the past several years as an adjunct fellow at??Innosight Institute. Although long ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:23

With VIX up 2.9%, the double long TVIX is down 29%. How did this happen?

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

Sales of 's iPhone surpassed shipments of the , Ontario-based smartphone maker's BlackBerry handsets in 2011, Bloomberg reported Thursday. sold 2.85 million iPhones in Canada last year, according to Bloomberg and IDC. RIM, by contrast, shipped just 2.08 million BlackBerrys in its home country. In 2008, the BlackBerrys outsold the iPhone by "almost five-to-one," according ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:49

Micron Technology shares lost ground in late trading Thursday after the memory chip maker posted disappointing results for its fiscal second quarter ended March 1. For the quarter, Micron reported revenue of $2.1 billion, flat with a year ago, but a bit ahead of the Street at $2.02 billion. The company lost 23 cent a ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

Executives who want to understand what social media really means need to jump in. By David Edelman For all the buzz around social media, one aspect has been largely ignored: the need for top business executives, especially CEOs, to personally get into the social media game. A recent survey by BRANDfog (PDF ? 4.2MB) points ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

IT services provider Accenture reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended February 29. For the quarter, the company posted revenue of $6.8 billion, up 12% in U.S. dollars and 13% in local currency, and ahead of the Street at $6.6 billion. Profits of 97 cents a share topped the Street consensus at 86 ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55

The Senate voted this afternoon 73-26 in favor a bill that loosens SEC regulations in order to permit small businesses easier access to capital, thereby creating jobs. This bill passed despite an impassioned plea by Majority Whip Dick Durbin to extend debate and hold hearings on small business legislation. The Senate legislation amends the JOBS ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 01:55