Twitter shares sink on report Jack Dorsey will become CEO
Interim Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (Scott Olson, Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter stock closed down 8% to $24.68 after technology news service Re/code reported that Jack Dorsey would be named chief...
View ArticleTwitter soars on billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed's increased stake
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his investment company have doubled their ownership of Twitter’s publicly traded shares in the past six weeks. (Majdi Mohammed, Associated Press) SAN...
View ArticleEMC shares spike on anticipated Dell buyout
The logos of EMC and Dell. (Guillaume Horcajuelo, EPA) SAN FRANCISCO — EMC shares rose 4% in after-hours trading on Friday on a report from technology news outlet Re/code that Dell is offering $27.25 a...
View ArticleGoogle parent Alphabet surges on mobile, buyback
Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Justin Sullivan, Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — How do you spell surge? Alphabet knows. Its shares jumped 9% after Google’s parent company beat Wall Street...
View ArticleAlphabet shares soar to all-time high on cloud ambitions
Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters (Marcio Jose Sanchez, Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO — Google parent Alphabet shares soared after the Internet giant says it’s making a major push into the...
View ArticleTwitter shares may languish for 'quite some time'
Square CEO Jack Dorsey is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week. (Richard Drew, Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey pulled off a miracle on Wall Street last week....
View ArticleHigh expectations for Google parent Alphabet's fourth quarter
Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Justin Sullivan, Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO – Wall Street is eagerly anticipating Alphabet’s fourth-quarter results, the first time the main Google...
View ArticleGoogle parent Alphabet ushers in 'fiscal discipline era'
Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat (Weinberg-Clark Photography) SAN FRANCISCO — The days of free spending appear to be waning as Alphabet gets serious about subsidiary companies becoming more...
View ArticleFacebook's Q1 may disappoint, warns Deutsche Bank
Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. (Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY) SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has handily beat Wall Street estimates quarter after quarter. Is the streak in jeopardy? Facebook closed...
View ArticleAnalyst: Live video holds promise for Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter
Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox holds up a Mevo, the first camera for live Facebook video, during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in April. (Eric Risberg,...
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