
eBay ( EBAY ) strikes a deal with VeriFone ( PAY ) and Equinox Payments that will help it see PayPal gain wider acceptance at physical retailers. The move could expand PayPal's reach to 40M global payment terminals as it muscles into the competitive
By Chris Katje : Earlier this week, the Daily Mail reported and shared the first image of a new Furby set to debut for the holiday season of 2012. The image seen below is being kept quiet for the most part by parent company Tiger Electronics. Tiger Electronics is owned by Hasbro ( HAS ), one of the
By Benjamin Goldman : Dell ( DELL ) and Hewlett Packard ( HPQ ) got very different reactions after their earnings reports. For Dell, it was more of the same: lowered outlooks and flat earnings. As a result, shares plunged over 17 percent on May 23rd. HP, despite lower revenue and earnings, got a ...
By Simit Patel : As I've already noted in my articles on the popping of Bubble 2.0 and the flow of capital from technology to the natural resource sector , I think Facebook has a lot of room to fall. Specifically, I wouldn't consider buying the stock unless it fell below $10. Here's an overview of
By Glenn Rogers : I remember when eBay ( EBAY ) was founded back in 1995. It was a phenomenal success, creating ..... waned over time, the bloom fell from that electronic rose. eBay has had to evolve to be less dependent on small entrepreneurial
By Modernist : The people who said that Zynga ( ZNGA ) would pop on its IPO are the same people who said Zynga would rise in anticipation of Facebook's ( FB ) IPO. The opposite happened in both cases, because the market knows how to price in obvious information ahead of time and sold off in ...
while another 25% had plunged between 40% and 80%, and 15% had dropped 0% to 40%. To be sure, companies like Amazon, Ebay and Google had posted gains of more than 300% three years later, but there were far more wipeouts like eToys, Pets.com and
By Abe Garver : As an investment banker focused on the web-only e-commerce sector, and creator of the Web-only Retail Index, a diverse group of constituents have asked me to comment on Facebook's ( FB ) IPO and the outlook for the company. Busted IPO Whenever a newly public stock falls quickly ...
reports, asking for information from rivals about the company's behavior. The requests to the firms, which include eBay ( EBAY ), were sent prior to the EU saying yesterday that Google has a "matter of weeks" to resolve a probe and avoid possible
Wall Street Breakfast Editors submit: Top Stories OECD fears that eurozone crisis may hit global recovery. The OECD has warned that the global recovery is "fragile, extremely uneven across different regions and could be derailed by the crisis in the euro area." The group cut its forecast for 2012