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Level 3 Supports Amazon Web Services' New AWS Direct Connect Service
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 8:03am | 55Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that it is a solution provider for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services new service, AWS Direct Connect, offering dedicated network connectivity and services to support high-bandwidth customer adoption of the AWS platform.
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Orbitz Appoints Esterow to Board
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 4:15pm | 28Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: OWW) today announced the appointment of Kenneth S. Esterow to its Board of Directors, effective August 9, 2011.
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Five Mega-Cap ETFs Your Broker Forgot To Mention
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 4:27pm | 645So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...
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Five Mega-Cap ETFs Your Broker Forgot To Mention
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 4:27pm | 645So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...
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Five Mega-Cap ETFs Your Broker Forgot To Mention
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 4:27pm | 645So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...
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Five Mega-Cap ETFs Your Broker Forgot To Mention
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 4:27pm | 645So you may not like investing like your grandfather, eschewing stodgy old mega-cap names for faster moving growth stocks and that's fine. There's a time and a place for every investment strategy, but these days, investors with longer time horizons should be looking for comfort and shelter with...
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6 Media Giants Talking About Netflix
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 1:57pm | 90Netflix's (NASDAQ: NFLX) reach goes way beyond its own subscription services. The digital movie giant has been the topic of discussion among major media companies during earnings calls in recent weeks, showing just how dependent the sector has become on digital streaming. For some, deals struck...
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Earnings Preview: Wal-Mart Stores' EPS, Revenue Expected to Rise
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 12:15pm | 573Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) releases its next round of earnings this Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Get the latest predictions in Benzinga's essential guide to the company's second quarter earnings report. Earnings and Revenue: Wall Street expects an EPS of $1.08/share and revenues of $108.26 billion...
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Active Screen - CANSLIM: Top 8 for August 11th
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 11:24am | 1684Market selling shuffled the deck on top-8 qualifying stocks. Since the last update in July we have seen Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) and Silver Wheaton Corporation (SLW) fall from the list and Priceline (PCLN) and FreeMcMoran (FCX) added, the latter making a return after its cut in May....
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It Is Not How They Open, It Is How They Close
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 10:17am | 395Nearly every trading session after July 21, 2011 the major stock market indexes have sold off into the close. The major stock indexes have not had a two day winning streak since July 21, 2011 when the S&P 500 traded as high as 1345.00. There have been only two trading sessions since July 21,...
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Thomas J. McInerney to Step Down as IAC CFO
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 8:00am | 59IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) announced today that Thomas J. McInerney, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, intends to leave the company at some point in the coming months, after 12 years with IAC. No specific date has been set for his departure and Mr. McInerney will remain CFO through an...
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We Will All Live In The Cloud
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 2:49pm | 487Get your head in the clouds, and it could be very profitable. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced this morning that it would be launching a web-based version of its Kindle, the Kindle Cloud Reader. If you use Chrome or Safari on Mac, PC, Linux and Chromebook, you can access your Kindle e-book...
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Can Groupon Be The White Knight For Stocks?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 11:56am | 672The Groupon IPO. The one everyone has been waiting for. This morning, some details were released about about the company's second quarter, as it had an amended filing with the SEC to get rid of its accounting metric, known as "adjusted consolidated segment operating income,” or ACSOI. “While we...
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Piper Jaffray Maintains Overweight on Netflix
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 9:52am | 159Piper Jaffray is out with its report today on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), maintaining Overweight. In its report, Piper Jaffray writes, "Early Q3 web traffic data from ComScore suggests that Netflix sub adds may be tracking ahead of estimates. The web traffic data for Netflix.com for the first month of...
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London Bridge Isn't Falling Down, Yet
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 8:44am | 460Rioters across England continued to do their part in reassuring the world that the country will be ready to host the Summer Olympics next year. An increased police presence in London that was credited with ending much of the violence there may be partially to blame for the rioting that has spread...