Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis is Tech Insider's Senior Equity Research analyst covering Internet and Interactive Entertainment. Prior to joining TI in 2011, Chris spent six years at Baird Capital having established the company’s Internet and Video Game research practice. Prior to Wall Street, Chris was a business analyst developing software at Chubb Corporation, and was a co-founder and CFO of Latin American career services website Detacuche.com. Chris appears frequently in the financial and industry press, including CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others.

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Stocks In News: RetailMeNot Inc (NASDAQ:SALE), Cheniere Energy, Inc. (NYSEMKT:LNG), Yandex NV(NASDAQ:YNDX), Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (NYSEMKT:INO)

RetailMeNot Inc (NASDAQ:SALE) SVP Jagjit Bath sold 2,500 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $29.75, for a total transaction of $74,375.00. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president now directly owns 30,000 shares in…

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Trader’s Alert: Global Payments Inc (NYSE:GPN), Intercontinentalexchange Group Inc (NYSE:ICE), LiveDeal Inc (NASDAQ:LIVE), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN), an electronic payments company based in Atlanta, named Cameron Bready as its CFO, effective June 30. Mr. Bready is CFO at ITC HoldingsITC +0.35% Corp, and will leave that position effective June 20. He will succeed David Mangum, whom Global Payments will promote to chief operating officer on June 30. Mr….

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Hot Stocks: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is close to finalizing an acquisition of video-streaming startup RayV Inc.to boost its web video technology. The paper says that an acquisition would be one of several web-video deals negotiated by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in recent months to turn Yahoo’s video site, Screen, into a…

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Active Movers At NASDAQ: Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), NewLead Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ:NEWL), Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI)

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Dimension Data announced on May 20, 2014 at Cisco Live, an expansion of their 23-year relationship with plans to accelerate and streamline hybrid cloud adoption globally. Cisco will use Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform and SaaS solutions to deliver a suite of mid-market centric cloud services to its customers and…

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Biotech Bullish Stocks: Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDIX), Enzymotec Ltd (NASDAQ:ENZY), bluebird bio Inc (NASDAQ:BLUE), Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHX)

xBoston hedge fund manager Baupost Group grew its portfolio of U.S. stocks by17 percent to $4.14 billion in the first quarter, maintaining large positions in several companies, including Cambridge-based Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDIX). Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDIX) stock performance was 6.06% in last session and finished the day at $6.03. Traded volume was 789,231 shares…

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Stock Alert: Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC), Novartis AG (ADR) (NYSE:NVS), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), BASF SE (ADR) (OTCMKTS:BASFY), Bayer AG (ADR) (OTCMKTS:BAYRY)

Comcast Corp.’s bid to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE:TWC) may be the opening act for a yearlong festival of telecommunications deals that would alter Internet, phone and TV service for tens of millions of Americans. Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC) stock performance was -1.57% in last session and finished the day at $135.97. Traded…

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