Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 14, 2011 at 12:36 pm PT
Wall Street analysts are particularly concerned about how the 3-year-old daily deals company will evolve over the next couple of years.
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Gustav Sandstrom and Arild Moen, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on July 27, 2011 at 10:40 am PT
Moody’s Investor Service Inc. Wednesday downgraded Nokia Corp.’s debt rating two notches, heaping more pressure on the troubled mobile-phone maker as it struggles to realign its business strategy and regain traction in the lucrative smartphone business.
Kara Swisher in News on March 28, 2011 at 2:47 am PT
Warner Bros. appears to be the frontrunner in various talks to buy Flixster, the social movie site, while Internet giant Yahoo has dropped out due to price concerns.
Sources said the reason for interest from the Time Warner-owned studio is due to a spate of recent digital efforts, including its expansion of a movie rental experiment on Facebook.
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Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on March 16, 2011 at 10:30 am PT
Shares of Apple are down sharply after JMP Securities analyst Alex Gauna today cut his rating on the stock to Market Perform from Outperform, writing that the crisis in Japan threatens to compound what seems already to have been a deceleration in production at Apple’s main contract assembler, Hon Hai Precision.
Kara Swisher in News on March 16, 2011 at 12:02 am PT
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation.
The price being discussed for the San Francisco-based start-up is between $60 million and $90 million, said several sources, in talks that are “substantive.”
Liz Gannes in Social on December 14, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT
Facebook employees think their company is a great place to work. In fact, among users of the jobs site Glassdoor, the social networking powerhouse was the top-ranked U.S. employer for 2010.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 6, 2010 at 8:33 am PT
Consumer Reports has been taking swings at AT&T’s cellphone service for a while now. But the carrier finds itself once again in its crosshairs.
The January 2011 issue ranks cellphones and services, and carries this headline on the cover: “Best and worst providers (Sorry AT&T).”
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Jess Bravin, Senior Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 1, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Videogame designers at ZeniMax Media Inc.’s Bethesda Softworks destroyed a virtual U.S. Capitol, Jefferson Memorial and other landmarks in the Mature-rated “Fallout 3,” which depicts the ruins of post-apocalyptic Washington.
They didn’t bother to obliterate the U.S. Supreme Court. But in the real world, that’s where the $10.5 billion videogame industry faces its greatest threat.
Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2010 at 12:10 am PT
A national poll released today by Common Sense Media asking how well social networks protect kids online produced an answer that should come as a shock to exactly no one:
Not very well, at least according to parents.
A full 75 percent of them gave social networking sites such as Facebook a negative rating for the task.
Kara Swisher in News on September 23, 2010 at 3:56 am PT
Silicon Valley-based professional social networking site, LinkedIn, said in a
press release that it has acquired ChoiceVendor, a San Francisco start-up that “provides real-world ratings and reviews of business-to-business service providers in more than 70 categories across the United States.”
Financial terms of the acquisition are not being released.
