May 7, 2010
AP – STRONG EARNINGS: DirecTV Inc.’s first-quarter net income nearly tripled to $558 million, or 59 cents per share. Cablevision Systems Corp.’s earnings more than tripled to $74.2 million, or 24 cents per share. Charter Communications Inc. swung to a profit of $24 million, or 21 cents per share.
When it comes to the revolution in mobile wallet technology, Isis Mobile Wallet is a collaboration between some super-heavyweights. Its founders and main partners are AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile, Visa (NYSE: V), Discover (NYSE: DFS), American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Verizon Wireless. This is ...
Admit it, you love the Facebook IPO (Nasdaq: FB). Besides its $100 billion-plus stock valuation, the social media company has over 900 million active users worldwide. Plus, at $16 billion, Facebook will go down as the second largest U.S. IPO ever, trailing only Visa's $17.9 ...
A few minutes before dawn yesterday we crossed what could be a major space-related milestone.An intriguing little startup firm called SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral, Fl., to dock its Dragon spacecraft with the International Space Station.Make no mistake about it - ...
As I discussed in Part One, the sky is the limit when it comes to mobile wallet technology. The big brand credit card issuers: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, and Discover Card, along with every other card issuer and wannabe credit extension ...
Falling statistics aside, crime is still a national epidemic. The truth is 1.2 million of us will fall victim to a rape, robbery or murder by the end of this year. That adds up to 3,400 new crime victims each and every day--all year long. Yet ...
And Facebook's reach grows bigger... Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced this week it is revamping its Bing search engine to include content from Facebook and other social media platforms. The move introduces a new sidebar to Bing, which aims to connect users with friends and other aficionados who can ...
Is there anything Facebook can't or won't do to keep its massive user base happy? The social network giant just announced plans for a new Facebook App Store where Facebook friends can purchase games and other applications on its heavily trafficked site. The new Facebook App Store, which will be ...
