Matthew Lynley
Why Carl Icahn Mistimed His Apple Investment
Billionaire Carl Icahn disclosed a $1 billion stake in Apple this week and is pushing for a bigger buyback. But while that worked once before, Apple is less vulnerable to a challenge now.
Matthew Lynley
Apple Just Hit Its Highest Point In The Past Eight Months
It hasn't hit the $500 mark since January, but it's now found a way back. The spike comes after billionaire Carl Icahn disclosed a $1 billion stake in Apple.
Matthew Lynley
With Two Tweets Carl Icahn Added About $17 Billion To Apple's Value
Put another way, Icahn's tweets were worth more to Apple than the entire value of the companies below.
Matthew Lynley
Another Top Zynga Executive, COO David Ko, Is Stepping Down
In the latest shake-up at the troubled social gaming company, the company's second chief operating officer in as many years is stepping down.
Matthew Lynley
Charting The BlackBerry Death Spiral
The potential sale of BlackBerry has been a long time coming. Here's a look at some of the major missteps the company has made over the years.
Matthew Lynley
Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Takes Aim At Apple
Carl Icahn said on Twitter that he has a large position in Apple. The famously aggressive activist investor is taking a huge bite out of Apple's stock, and the Tweet alone sent shares rocketing up.
Matthew Lynley
Meet The Man Leading Yahoo's New York Spending Spree
T.R. Newcomb is in charge of corporate development in New York, and he is shopping around for startups.
Matthew Lynley
12 People Running Your Internet From Behind The Scenes
OK, maybe not so secretly. Here are the lead engineers and minds behind the most-used products on the internet.
Matthew Lynley
How Yahoo Plans To Hold Onto Tumblr's Founder David Karp
He has a whopping retention package of more than $80 million for staying at Yahoo. The catch: it keeps him locked up for at least four years.
Matthew Lynley
11 CEOs Who Really Need To Spend More Time Talking
Some of these guys often throw out the tightly scripted CEO playbook and say precisely what's on their mind. That's why we love listening to them. Others need to speak up and let us know what's on their mind.
Matthew Lynley
A Peek Inside Facebook's Engineering Clockwork
Facebook has a little update to News Feed coming out today. More interesting, however, is the story behind it.
Matthew Lynley
10 Curious Investments From Tech Billionaires
Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post for $250 million. It's certainly not the weirdest investment he — or other techies — have ever made though.
Matthew Lynley
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Just Bought The Washington Post For $250 Million
The CEO of Amazon now owns one of the largest media properties in the world.
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Exclusive: Square Looking To Expand In New York
The company is looking for bigger office space and plans to ramp up hiring of engineers.
Matthew Lynley
The Dell Deal May Finally, Mercifully Be Nearing An End
Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners sweetened their bid by offering a 13-cent dividend in exchange for delaying the vote until Sept. 12 so they can have time to sway shareholders to accept the new offer. Now updated with Icahn's comments.
Matthew Lynley
Why A Twitter-Monitoring Startup Just Raised $165 Million
Hootsuite is an enterprise-grade Twitter client that just raised a huge pile of cash. But a big chunk of that is going to help early investors cash out.
Matthew Lynley
What It's Like Being A Facebook Investor Right Now
So close. So, so close.
Matthew Lynley
9 Of The Biggest Executive Departures At Zynga
Zynga lost another batch of executives on Monday. But they are hardly the only ones that have left in the past year or so.
Matthew Lynley
8 Things Jeff Bezos Just Doesn't Care About
Step one: Report quarter that doesn't meet expectations. Step two: Don't care about the earnings. Step three: Watch stock reach record high.
Matthew Lynley
Top Executive At AOL's Local News Business, Patch, Resigns
Mark Josephson, senior vice president of marketing and revenue, has resigned, sources told BuzzFeed. Patch, even to this day, is still finding its feet.
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