Matthew Lynley
Twitter Now Has A Direct Line Into Your Living Room
In its battle with Facebook to control live conversations around TV, Twitter just took a massive leap ahead of its nemesis. It has announced a monster deal with Comcast that will give it direct access to your TV set-top box from a tweet.
Matthew Lynley
12 Women Who Would Make Excellent Nominees To Twitter's All-Male Board Of Directors
As Twitter heads for its public market debut, the company is facing criticism for not having any women on its board. Here are 12 female executives we think would make excellent directors.
Matthew Lynley
5 Reasons One Analyst Thinks Twitter's Stock Is Going To $50
One analyst has already initiated coverage of Twitter with a whopping $50 price target.
Matthew Lynley
How The Makers Of Candy Crush Can Avoid A Crash
The future of King.com, the maker of Candy Crush, depends on whether or not it can develop new hits to follow up its rise to worldwide prominence. Something others who have come before it have not been able to do.
Matthew Lynley
Twitter's Business Secrets Have Finally Been Revealed
IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE! Twitter's S-1 IPO filing has finally landed.
Matthew Lynley
Descriptions Of Twitter From The Annals Of Urban Dictionary
While we're waiting for Twitter's S-1 filing to hit, here's the consensus opinion of the service from Urban Dictionary. Disclaimer: some of them are from the earlier days of Twitter.
Matthew Lynley
Jon Stewart Sends One Book's Sales Surging On Amazon
The Reason I Jump is now the number-two best seller on Amazon.com. Jon Stewart interviewed some of the people behind it on his show last night.
Matthew Lynley
Key Things To Look For In Twitter's IPO Filing
Twitter is expected to release its S-1 filing this week. Not all will be revealed, but there's a lot to dig through.
Matthew Lynley
FreedomPop, Unlike Apple, Sees An Opportunity In Cheap Smartphones
Stephen Stokols and his company, FreedomPop, want everyone to have a smartphone. With a free plan, that is.
Matthew Lynley
Good News For Twitter: Facebook Just Crossed $50
Facebook's stock has more than doubled in the past three months. Now Twitter's timing for its IPO looks even better.
Matthew Lynley
Insurance Holding Company Bids $4.7 Billion For Blackberry Because Canada
The pride of Canada is being sold off to a company that largely has stakes in insurance companies. Fairfax Financial Holdings is the "Berkshire Hathaway of Canada."
Matthew Lynley
The Saga Of BlackBerry Could Mercifully Be Coming To A Close
And we're done! BlackBerry has entered into an agreement to sell itself to Fairfax Financial, a holding company, for about $4.7 billion.
Matthew Lynley
The Phone That Cost BlackBerry About $1 Billion
The company announced preliminary earnings today which included a big round of job cuts. It's taking a huge pre-tax charge against the Z10, the smartphone that was supposed to save the company. It's more bad news on top of already bad news.
Matthew Lynley
The 5 Questions From Wall Street Microsoft Has To Answer Today
Steve Ballmer and company are holding an analyst meeting today. It's the first in several years, and comes at a time where the future of Microsoft is basically up in the air.
Matthew Lynley
The Fed Changes Nothing And Suddenly Stocks Are Skyrocketing
Everything still sucks. And things aren't getting much better.
Matthew Lynley
An Early Twitter Investor Is Poised To Make More Than $100 Million Off A Small Investment
Charles River Ventures' stake looks like it's going to be worth more than $100 million. It's not $1 billion, but it's a huge payout for what they put in.
Matthew Lynley
Carl Icahn's Bet To Wrangle Apple Looks Better Every Day
No news, in these situations, is sometimes bad news. Now Carl Icahn's position looks even stronger in the company Steve Jobs built.
Matthew Lynley
One Chart That Illustrates Wall Street's Disappointment With Apple
The company Steve Jobs built has lost nearly $50 billion in market cap in the past month. It's still not clear if new iPhones will be enough to re-ignite growth and bring back investor confidence.
Matthew Lynley
Why Twitter Needs A War Chest
Twitter is finally going public. But why would Twitter go public?
Matthew Lynley
Twitter Announces It's Going Public In A Tweet
The company said it filed confidential documents with the SEC Thursday afternoon.
Matthew Zeitlin
