Jayne Crisman

Jayne Crisman is a Senior Analyst covering the Communication Services & Technology sector. Prior to joining Tech Insider in 2000, she worked at J.C. Bradford & Co. and Hoak Breedlove Wesneski & Co. covering wireless communications, and at Fidelity Investments before that. She is a five-time winner of the Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” analysts survey, including ranking No. 1 in 2012 in the Telecommunications Equipment category.

Investor’s Alert: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), EMC (NYSE:EMC), Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK)

Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) CEO Marissa A. Mayer unloaded 36,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $33.81, for a total transaction of $1,217,160.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 2,490,929 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately…

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Tech Movers: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO)

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)  said the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dropped its probe into the social networking company over events surrounding its controversial initial public offering. In its quarterly report filed last Thursday, Facebook said the regulator in May “notified us that it had terminated its inquiry and that no enforcement action had been recommended…

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Tech Unusual Volume: Spansion Inc. (NYSE:CODE), KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ:KLAC), HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY), DoubleLine Income Solutions Fund (NYSE:DSL), Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ:LSCC)

Spansion (NASDAQ:CODE) has been given a consensus recommendation of “Buy” by the ten analysts that are currently covering the stock, American Banking News reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 12-month target price among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock…

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Hot Stock List – Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) , Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) , PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ:PMCS) , U.S. Auto Parts (NASDAQ:PRTS) , Nord Anglia Education (NYSE:NORD)

Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has reported $2.91 billion revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014, an increase of 61 per cent, compared with $1.81 billion in the second quarter of 2013. Excluding the impact of year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates, revenue would have increased by 59 per cent. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock performance…

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Today’s Stocks – Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) , Michael Kors (NYSE:KORS) , Doral Financial (NYSE:DRL) , SunTrust Banks (NYSE:STI) , Triple-S Management (NYSE:GTS)

Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) has signed a multi-year agreement with NetCracker Technology, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, to expand its use of OSS solution to accelerate the time to market and reduce the operational cost for the launch of Sprint Spark™, Sprint’s enhanced LTE network. Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) stock performance was 1.17% in last session and finished the day at…

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Stocks to Watch – GoPro Inc (NASDAQ:GPRO) , CBS (NYSE:CBS) , TigerLogic (NASDAQ:TIGR) , Ituran Location (NASDAQ:ITRN) , Gafisa (NYSE:GFA)

GoPro Inc (NASDAQ:GPRO), a maker of cameras and related accessories, has got its own extreme Xbox One channel. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced the launch of the official GoPro app on its Xbox One game console. The move comes only a few months since it launched a similar app on its earlier game console, Xbox 360….

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