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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.

Services Sector Active stocks: Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P), Hertz Global Holdings (NYSE:HTZ), Lowe’s Companies (NYSE:LOW), CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ:WFM)

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Pandora Media Inc.  (NYSE:P) has another competitor now that Amazon (AMZN_) has launched its own free music streaming service.  The online market place is offering its Prime Music service to customers already subscribed to Amazon Prime.  The company has a library of 1 million songs, while Pandora is close with just about 900,000 songs in…

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NASDAQ Movers: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN), American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL), Galena Biopharma (NASDAQ:GALE), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU)

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Search and media site Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO)  gains modestly Wednesday as its partner, China’s Alibaba Group, rolls out a beta version of a U.S. e-commerce site, Reuters reported. YHOO holds a significant stake in Alibaba, valued recently at about $26 billion.  Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) stock performance was 0.55% in last session and finished the day at…

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STock Alert: Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS), Pandora Media Inc (NYSE:P), Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI)

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Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) is set to report FQ1 2014 earnings before the market opens on Thursday, June 12th. Lululemon is a retailer of upscale yoga inspired sportswear. After a few years checkered with bad PR, Lululemon is starting to settle in again under new CEO Laurent Potdevin who took the helm in January. This quarter,…

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Tech Movers: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU), Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)

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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) CTO Michael Todd Schroepfer sold 20,000 shares of the company’s stock on the open market in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $63.53, for a total value of $1,270,600.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer now directly owns 182,485…

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Hot Watch List: BCE Inc. (USA) (NYSE:BCE), Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:VOD), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Telecom Italia (NYSE:TI), Swisscom (OTCMKTS:SCMWY)

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BCE Inc. (USA) (NYSE:BCE) is based in Verdun, Quebec, and was previously known as Bell Canada Enterprises. The company provides land-line phone service, satellite television, broadband Internet and data services. BCE’s stock has a dividend yield of 4.87%, based on a quarterly payout of 56.37 cents. The annual payout of $2.25 is up 58% from…

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Stocks In News: Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG), Arcos Dorados Holding Inc (NYSE:ARCO), WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (NASDAQ:WETF), BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ:BMRN)

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Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG), a rival chain, has said it’s not interested in a merger with Family Dollar. And Wal-Mart wouldn’t have much use for the company’s stores because they’re too small for its Express format, Montagna said. Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG) stock performance was 7.35% in last session and finished the day at $62.25….

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