Bets on declines in Sina Corp. (SINA) shares plunged to a record low last week on prospects the Chinese Internet company�� alliance with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (ALIBABZ) will propel advertising sales on its social media platform.
Short interest on Sina slid to 0.8 percent of the total outstanding April 29, the lowest since 2006, when London-based researcher Markit started tracking the data. Interest was as high as 5.6 percent Jan. 15. The Shanghai-based company surged 12 percent last week for the biggest gain since September, while the Bloomberg China-US Equity Index (CH55BN) climbed 1.4 percent.
Sina rallied from a four-month low after Alibaba, China�� largest e-commerce company, agreed to buy 18 percent of its Weibo.com platform April 29, forecasting revenue of $380 million in advertising and social commerce services for the Twitter-like service. Jefferies Group Inc. more than doubled its revenue estimate for Weibo after the announcement and analysts project Sina�� sales will expand 18 percent this year, according to the mean of 10 estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
10 Best Airline Stocks To Buy For 2015: Amazon.com Inc.(AMZN)
Amazon.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates retail Web sites, including amazon.com and amazon.ca. The company serves consumers through its retail Web sites and focuses on selection, price, and convenience. It also offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Web sites, and their own branded Web sites. In addition, the company serves developer customers through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually various type of business. Further, it manufactures and sells the Kindle e-reader. Additionally, the company provides fulfillment; miscellaneous marketing and promotional agreements, such as online advertising; and co-branded credit cards. Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Evan Niu, CFA]
Deja vu
The whole situation is reminiscent of Apple's controversial entry into the e-book market, challenging Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) . Book publishers absolutely loathed the wholesale model that allowed Amazon to sell books at $9.99, since they felt that reduced consumer perception of a book's value down to unsustainable levels. Amazon's dominant 90% market share gave them little choice but to begrudgingly play ball. - [By Rick Aristotle Munarriz]
AlamyStephen Elop (left), the soon-to-be ex CEO of Nokia, with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, which is acquiring his services. Companies can make brilliant moves, but there are also times when things don't work out quite as planned. From fallout from an excessively generous golden parachute to applause for a new cheap tablet, here's a rundown of the week's best and worst moves in business world. Amazon.com (AMZN) -- Winner The leading online retailer introduced the new generation of its Kindle Fire tablets this week. The Kindle Fire HDX offer several enhanced features, but the real winning move by Amazon is that it's lowering the price of the Kindle Fire HD to $139. Amazon can afford to sell its tablets near cost, thanks to its ecosystem of digital books, music, movies, and games that allows it to cash in later. Pricing the perfectly acceptable 7-inch tablet at $139 -- well below last holiday season's price of $199 -- should make it one of the hottest purchases this shopping season. Nokia (NOK) -- Loser There has been some public rumbling about the $25 million bonus that Nokia's now departing CEO Stephen Elop will be receiving on the way out. Even though the Finnish cell phone pioneer saw its value crater under Elop's watch, his contract guarantees the big payout under terms of the sale of its handset business. There's an uproar in Finland, even though Microsoft (MSFT) will actually be covering most of the bonus when it buys Nokia's devices and services unit, and Elop's services along with it. However, as a matter of corporate pride, Nokia has reportedly been pleading for Elop to accept a smaller bonus for his work in devaluing the company to the point where the best it could do was to slice off its juiciest segment and sell it to his former employer. (Yes, Elop was a Microsoft exec before becoming the first American to run Nokia.) Things got hairy on Wednesday when Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported that Elop is insisting on the bonus because
- [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]
www.transformersmovie.com It's not only the tragic passing of Robin Williams that has leached the humor out of Hollywood recently. Like many of the celebrated actor's late-career moves, the big-time film industry has been stepping away from comedy. It wasn't so long ago that comedies were an important staple of any major studio's release diet. No more. These days, moviegoers would be hard-pressed to find one at their local multiplex. Getting Serious Of 2013's top 10 grossing movies, none was a pure comedy, according to boxofficemojo.com. According to data compiled by the Nomura Research Institute, 2014 is set to witness the lowest level of major-studio comedies in at least five years. For 21st Century Fox's (FOXA) near-eponymous 20th Century Fox, comedies are anticipated to make up 8 percent of 2014 releases. That compares unfavorably to 27 percent in 2012 and 2013 and particularly to the 40-plus percent figures of 2010 and 2011. Disney (DIS), although it's more inclined toward animated fare and other genres, typically throws a comedy or several into its schedule. But this year it isn't planning on releasing any pure comedies. Lost In Translation This decline in the funny is due largely to a shift in the global movie going audience. International markets have become increasingly more important, with non-North American audiences comprising 70 percent of box office take in 2013, according to data compiled by the Motion Picture Association of America. The $25 billion in ticket sales to those markets last year represented an increase of 33 percent from 2009. Meanwhile, the growth in North American box office across the same stretch was a mere 3 percent. So international audiences matter more. The problem with comedies is that the humor often comes from the dialogue, even in films that feature heavy doses of sight gags and slapstick. (Think of the many verbal jokes among the physical humor of the 1980 classic "Airplane!" for example.) As a result, Hollywood
Top 10 Internet Stocks To Buy For 2014: Symantec Corporation(SYMC)
Symantec Corporation provides security, storage, and systems management solutions internationally. The company?s Consumer segment delivers Internet security, PC tune-up, and online backup solutions and services to individual users and home offices. Its Security and Compliance segment provides solutions for endpoint security and management, compliance, messaging management, data loss prevention, encryption, and authentication services to large, medium, and small-sized businesses, as well as offers solutions through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) security offerings. This segment?s products enable customers to secure, provision, and remotely manage their laptops, PCs, mobile devices, and servers. The company?s Storage and Server Management segment provides storage and server management, backup, archiving, and data protection solutions across heterogeneous storage and server platforms, as well as solutions delivered through its SaaS offerings to large, medium, and small-s ized businesses. Symantec?s Services segment offers implementation services and solutions, including consulting, business critical services, education, and managed security services. The company also provides various enterprise support offerings, such as annual maintenance support contracts, including content, upgrades, and technical support. It sells its products through its eCommerce platform, as well as through distributors, direct marketers, Internet-based resellers, system builders, ISPs, and retail locations worldwide. Symantec markets and sells its products through distributors, retailers, direct marketers, Internet-based resellers, original equipment manufacturers, system builders, and Internet service providers; and its e-commerce channels, as well as direct sales force, value-added and large account resellers, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Tom Taulli]
In a sudden move, Symantec (SYMC) has terminated its CEO, Steve Bennett. And Wall Street is definitely concerned, as SYMC stock is off about 12% in today�� trading.
- [By Sue Chang]
Symantec Corp. (SYMC) said its fiscal first-quarter profit jumped 50% on the back of a growth in revenue and cost cutting measures. The security software company reported a profit of $236 million, or 34 cents a share, versus $157 million, or 22 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding items, earnings rose to 45 cents a share. Revenue rose nearly 2% to $1.74 billion. Shares of Symantec were unchanged in late trade.
- [By Traders Reserve]
For some reason, certain companies can attract buyers no matter the circumstance. I would put Symantec (SYMC) in that category. Shares have gained nearly 20% this year even as Symantec�� prospects deteriorated.
- [By Wallace Witkowski]
Symantec Corp. (SYMC) �shares dropped 7% to $19.44 on heavy volume, after a brief halted at the closing bell, as the security software company fired Chief Executive Steve Bennett.
Top 10 Internet Stocks To Buy For 2014: eBay Inc.(EBAY)
eBay Inc. provides online platforms, services, and tools to help individuals and merchants in online and mobile commerce and payments in the United States and internationally. Its Marketplaces segment operates ecommerce platform eBay.com; vertical shopping sites, such as StubHub, Fashion, Motors, and Half.com; and classifieds Websites, including Den Bl�Avis, BilBasen, Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, mobile.de, Alamaula, Rent.com, eBay Anuncios, eBay Kleinanzeigen, and eBay Annunci, as well as provides advertising services. The company?s Payments segment offers payment and settlement services for consumers and merchants on and off eBay Websites and other merchant Websites. This segment operates PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to send and receive payments online and through mobile devices; Bill Me Later that enables the United States merchants to offer, the United States consumers to obtain, credit at the point of sale for ecommerce and mobile tra nsactions; Zong, which allows users with mobile phones to purchase digital goods and have the transactions charged to their phone bill; and BillSAFE that enables customers pay for purchases upon receipt of an invoice. Its GSI segment offers an ecommerce services suite for enterprise clients that operate in general merchandise categories, including apparel, sporting goods, toys and baby, health and beauty, and home; and marketing services comprising full-service digital agency, enterprise email marketing, mobile advertising, affiliate marketing, advertisement retargeting, and in-depth analytics services. The company also offers X.commerce platform that provides software developers access to the company?s applications programming interfaces to develop functionality for various merchants; and Magento Connect, which allows developers to market and sell add-on functionality and solutions to merchants that use a Magento storefront. eBay Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquarter ed in San Jose, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Divine]
Perhaps if SanDisk decides to try a little harder, it could pawn its wares through eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY ) , which could use some business of its own. Shares in the web-based auction site cratered 5.9% Thursday, as Wall Street was disappointed by slowing sales growth. Though 14% revenue growth in a wildly competitive environment like online retail ain't shabby, it's less than half the 29% pace seen a year ago. With PayPal sales growth also easing rapidly, it looks like the company may finally be reaching maturity. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but growth investors are leaving in hordes.
- [By Will Ashworth]
Spotting the winners in online-only retail is a very tricky deal because there really aren�� many publicly traded options. Beyond Amazon and eBay (EBAY), you might have a handful of names worth considering, including ZU stock. Add in the fact retailers aren�� nearly as forthcoming about their monthly sales numbers as they used to be and you have a very imprecise exercise.
- [By Rich Duprey]
As is well known at this point, online retailers such as Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) and eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY ) had their growth potential early on bolstered by their ability to avoid paying sales taxes on purchases made in states where they didn't have a physical presence. Best Buy, Circuit City, Sixth Avenue Electronics -- retailers in general, and not just sellers of electronic consumer goods -- were placed at a competitive disadvantage because the prices consumers paid were elevated relative to those paid at online sellers.
Top 10 Internet Stocks To Buy For 2014: IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI)
IAC/InterActiveCorp engages in the Internet business in the United States and internationally. The company�s Search segment develops, markets, and distributes various downloadable toolbars; provides search, reference, and content services through its destination search and other Websites, including Ask.com and Dictionary.com; and aggregates and integrates local advertising and content for distribution to publishers on Web and mobile platforms, as well as markets and distributes mobile applications through which it provides search and additional services. Its Match segment offers subscription-based and advertiser-supported online personals services through its Websites comprising Match.com, Chemistry.com, OurTime.com, BlackPeopleMeet.com, and OkCupid.com, as well as through mobile applications and Meetic-branded Websites. The company�s ServiceMagic segment offers Market Match service that matches consumers with service professionals; Exact Match service, which enables con sumers to review service professional profiles and select the service professional that meets their specific needs; and 1800Contractor.com, an online directory of service professionals. This segment also offers Website design and hosting services. Its Media and Other segment operates CollegeHumor.com, an online entertainment Website that targets young males; Vimeo, a Website on which users can upload, share, and view video; and Pronto.com, a comparison search engine. This segment also engages in the creation of video content for various distribution platforms; and operates as an Internet retailer of footwear and related apparel and accessories, as well as focuses on multimedia business. The company was formerly known as InterActiveCorp and changed its name to IAC/InterActiveCorp in July 2004. IAC/InterActiveCorp was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Timothy Lutts, Publisher, Cabot Heritage Corporation]
In 2004, TripAdvisor (TRIP) was purchased by conglomerate Interactive Corp (IACI), which spun off its travel businesses under the name of Expedia in 2005. In December 2011, TripAdvisor was spun off from Expedia in an IPO.
- [By Mani]
IAC InterActive Corp. (NASDAQ:IACI) should see improved margins and revenue from its Match business as subscriber growth could be boosted by favorable secular trends and new monetizing opportunities.
- [By WALLSTCHEATSHEET]
IAC/InterActiveCorp provides information and entertainment services through its wide portfolio of websites to consumers and companies across the globe. The stock has been moving higher in recent years and seems to be getting ready to test all-time high prices. Over the last four quarters, earnings have been mixed while revenues have been increasing, which has pleased investors. Relative to its peers and sector, IAC/InterActiveCorp has trailed in year-to-date performance. Look for IAC/InterActiveCorp to catch up and OUTPERFORM.
Top 10 Internet Stocks To Buy For 2014: Yahoo! Inc.(YHOO)
Yahoo! Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital media company that delivers personalized digital content and experiences through various devices worldwide. It offers online properties and services to users; and a range of marketing services to businesses. The company?s communications and communities offerings include Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, Flickr, and Connected TV, which provide a range of communication and social services to users and small businesses enabling users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos. Its search products comprise Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Local, available free to users to navigate the Internet and discover content. The company?s marketplaces offerings and services include Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business, which allow users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by review ing and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, or considering offers from providers of goods, services, or parties with similar interests. Its media offerings comprise Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles, Yahoo! Contributor Network, and Yahoo! Pulse, which are designed to engage users with online content and services on the Web. The company also offers marketing services, such as display and search advertising, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions to advertisers. In addition, it provides software and platform offerings for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers, such as Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo! Open Strategy, Yahoo! Application Platform, Yahoo! Updates, Yahoo! Query Language, and Yahoo! Search BOSS. The company has strategic alliances with Nokia and ABC News, Inc. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Californi a.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Paul Ausick]
The top smartphone properties measured by reach belong to Google (92.6% reach), Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) with an 86.3% reach, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) with 81.7% reach, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) with 66.8%, and Apple with 50.2%. The top smartphone apps belong to Facebook with 76.1% of U.S. users and four Google apps — YouTube, Google Play, Google Search, and Google Maps — rounding out the top five.
- [By Wallace Witkowski]
Yahoo (YHOO) shares fell 3.4% to $36.92 on very heavy volume, after initially being up as much as 2% after hours, as fourth-quarter display-ad revenue declined 6% from the year-ago period.
- [By Wallace Witkowski]
Other notable earnings fall toward the tech end of the spectrum with reports from Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) , Intel Corp. (INTC) , International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) , eBay Inc. (EBAY) and Google Inc. (GOOG) .
- [By Paul Ausick]
Big Earnings Movers: Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is up 2.3% at $14.56 on decent results. MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE: MTG) is up 14.9% at $8.34. PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is up 2.1% at $82.27 on better snack sales. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is up 1.3% at $23.68 on modest results. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is down 0.9% at $33.09 and probably deserves more love than it�� getting.
Top 10 Internet Stocks To Buy For 2014: Google Inc.(GOOG)
Google Inc. maintains an index of Web sites and other online content for users, advertisers, and Google network members and other content providers. It offers AdWords, an auction-based advertising program; AdSense program, which enables Web sites that are part of the Google Network to deliver ads from its AdWords advertisers; Google Display, a display advertising network that comprises the videos, text, images, and other interactive ads; DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a real-time auction marketplace for the trading of display ad space; and YouTube that provides video, interactive, and other ad formats for advertisers. The company also provides Google Mobile that optimizes Google?s applications for mobile devices in browser and downloadable form; and enables advertisers to run search ad campaigns on mobile devices, as well as Google Local that provides local information on the Web; and Google Boost for small businesses to participate in the ads auction. In addition, it offers And roid, an open source mobile software platform; Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system; Google Chrome, a Web browser; Google TV, a platform for the consumers to use the television and the Internet on a single screen; and Google Books platform to discover, search, and consume content from printed books online. Further, the company provides Google Apps, a cloud computing suite of message and collaboration tools, which includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Sites; Google Search Appliance that offers real-time search of business and intranet applications, and public Web sites; Google Site Search, a custom search engine; Google Commerce Search for online retail enterprises; Google Checkout to make online shopping and payments streamlined and secure; Google Maps Application Programming Interface; and Google Earth Enterprise, a firewall software solution for imagery and data visualization. Google Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Kevin Chen]
In the video below, Fool contributor Kevin Chen reveals the one metric every investor should know. He also walks you through how you can use this metric to inform your buy or sell thesis for�IBM� (NYSE: IBM ) ,�Baidu� (NASDAQ: BIDU ) ,�Apple� (NASDAQ: AAPL ) ,�Google� (NASDAQ: GOOG ) , and�Nokia� (NYSE: NOK ) .
- [By John Udovich]
On Friday, Deltathree surged 277.8% to $0.068 and on Monday, it surged 120.59% to $0.150 for a market cap of $10.84 million. The only explanation I can come up with for Deltathree surging is a Bloomberg story�entitled: ��aze Deal Primes Israel�� Silicon Wadi for Wave of Investment.��The article�talks about the recently announced Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)�acquisition of mobile map developer Waze Inc. which marked�one of the most ��ucrative outcomes��for an Israeli technology startup as it was�bought for about $1.1 billion. Waze was founded in 2008 by Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine and in 2009, they hired Noam Bardin, an Israeli serial entrepreneur, as CEO plus they�raised $12 million from venture capitalists.
Top 10 Internet Stocks To Buy For 2014: CYNK Technology Corp (CYNK)
Cynk Technology Corp., formerly Introbuzz, Inc., is a development stage-company. The Company intends to develop a social network business. Social networks are Web based services that allow individuals to post a profile and link their profile to other friends and organizations.
The Company intends to develop a database of professional and other business persons, as well as other interested persons in providing and utilizing contacts. As of November 14, 2012, the Company had not generated any revenue.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]
CYNK Technology (CYNK), the mysterious over-the-counter stock that at one point broke a $6 billion market cap, dropped roughly 80 percent in its first trades after a Securities and Exchange Commission halt. The SEC halted CYNK for two weeks following a massive rise in the stock's value -- it had been worth only a few cents per share in June, but it jumped above $21 on July 10. The Belize-based CYNK Technology supposedly operates a social networking site, but filings indicate it only has one employee and virtually no assets. Experts told CNBC the week of the SEC halt that they expected CYNK to fall precipitously after reopening, and its first day of trading is proving those predictions correct. When it was halted, the stock was worth just less than $14 per share, and is now below $3 a share after briefly hovering around $5 earlier Friday morning. An OTC Markets spokeswoman told Reuters that CYNK's shares were not trading on its platform, but were occurring over the phone. Earlier this week Reuters reported that OTC's CEO did not expect CYNK to trade on its platform at all after reopening, as no brokerages would file the required paperwork for the stock to trade on their exchanges. An SEC spokesman said that the organization cannot comment on the status of a company after a suspension period ends, citing an online explanation of the process. That document notes that broker-dealers may not solicit investors to trade the previously suspended OTC stock until they satisfy several regulatory requirements. The SEC warned, however, that "unsolicited" trading may occur after a reopening -- as CYNK is now seeing -- but "even though such trading is allowed, it can be very risky for investors without current and reliable information about the company."
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