Author: Richard Atkins

Richard Atkins is a senior contributor at Tech Insider covering online media, online travel, and video games. Richard has been with Tech Insider covering companies in these industries since 2011 and has authored numerous industry reports, including "Internet Video: Field of Dreams or Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Next Leg of Online Travel," and "Pwned: How Casual Games Changed The Gaming Landscape." Atkins was recognized as the No. 2 stock picker and earnings estimator in the 2011 Financial Times / StarMine Internet & Catalog Retail category and was ranked in the 2010 Wall Street Journal "Best On The Street" for the Leisure Goods & Services category.
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Services Sector Losers: Melco Crown Entertainment (NASDAQ:MPEL), SFX Entertainment (NASDAQ:SFXE), Einstein Noah Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:BAGL), You On Demand Holdings (NASDAQ:YOD)

Macau casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:MPEL) says the cost of building its Studio City resort has risen to US$2.3 billion (MOP18.37 billion) from US$2 billion. Melco Crown says the company developing the resort has enough equity commitments to cover some of the increase in cost and that shareholders in the developer have agreed to make more equity available pro rata to cover … Continue reading Services Sector Losers: Melco Crown Entertainment (NASDAQ:MPEL), SFX Entertainment (NASDAQ:SFXE), Einstein Noah Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:BAGL), You On Demand Holdings (NASDAQ:YOD)

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Stock in News: Summarizing The Apple (NASDAQ AAPL) Watch Reviews

Apple (NASDAQ AAPL) has remained the top draw among the technology related stocks for the past couple of quarters. Most of the products which Apple has launched in the market, have gone on to have great success. It would therefore be interesting to take a look at their latest product Apple Watch. This new product has been labelled by many as the one which will … Continue reading Stock in News: Summarizing The Apple (NASDAQ AAPL) Watch Reviews

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Stock in News: Russia Planning to Ban Facebook (NASDAQ FB) ?

Facebook (NASDAQ FB) is a leader in the social networking market segment by a mile. All over the world, Facebook hsa been easily beating competition, to come first in this segment. It is more popular among the users in USA and India, while elsewhere it still impresses with its numbers. However, it still faces a ban in countries like China. Russia may well be joining … Continue reading Stock in News: Russia Planning to Ban Facebook (NASDAQ FB) ?

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Tech Stocks In News: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE)

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) have announced a strategic partnership to create new solutions that connect salesforce.com´s customer relationship management apps and platform to Microsoft Office and Windows so customers can be more productive. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock performance was 0.82% in last session and finished the day at $40.34. Traded volume was 19.89million shares in the last session and the average volume … Continue reading Tech Stocks In News: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE)

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Healthcare Decliners: SunLink Health Systems, Inc. (NYSEMKT:SSY), Recro Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:REPH), OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:OGXI), Retrophin Inc (NASDAQ:RTRX)

SunLink Health Systems Inc. (NYSEMKT:SSY) said that net loss for the third-quarter ended March 31, 2014 widened to $964,000 or $0.10 per share, from $186,000 or $0.02 per share last year. Loss from continuing operations for the quarter was $911,000 or $0.10 per share, compared to a loss from continuing operations of $197,000 or $0.02 per share in the prior year. Quarterly operating loss from … Continue reading Healthcare Decliners: SunLink Health Systems, Inc. (NYSEMKT:SSY), Recro Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:REPH), OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:OGXI), Retrophin Inc (NASDAQ:RTRX)

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Finance, Internet

Stock News: Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Upgrades Messenger App

Facebook (NASDAQ FB) has now upgraded their messenger app. Already high on the mobile platform, Facebook has always been critical about the performance of its messenger app. Therefore the recent upgrades do not come as a major surprise. The world’s leading social networking site would be hoping to engage more users on its mobile platform. Here in this article, we will take a closer look … Continue reading Stock News: Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Upgrades Messenger App

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