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.

Hot Stock List: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM), Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCOI), Aviv REIT (NYSE:AVIV), Fidelity Southern (NASDAQ:LION), United Insurance (NASDAQ:UIHC)

Richard Atkins2 months ago11 years ago02 mins

Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ:MXIM) VP Christopher J. Neil sold 30,000 shares of the company’s stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Friday, November 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $29.56, for a total transaction of $886,800.00. Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM) belongs to Technology sector. Its net…

Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) News: Microsoft Word App Ranks High

Richard Atkins2 months ago11 years ago02 mins

According to recent reports Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) Word mobile app is climbing its way up to the peak Apple charts. Microsoft has added some nice touches to Word on iOS, just after a day following the release of iOS Word. The app comes with basic editing and takes the No.2 spot in the free apps…

Stock in News: A Look At Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Usage Of Cloud

Richard Atkins2 months ago11 years ago03 mins

Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) search is the biggest search engine and web based service provider with the largest number of users in the World, capable of handling more than 3 billion searches per day. It is a multinational that provides a number of other internet related services and products as well such as cloud services,…

Active Stock: Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Noticing A Shift Towards Android

Richard Atkins2 months ago11 years ago03 mins

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) is observing a trend in Europe that more and more app developers are going “Android-First.” This transformation holds significance in the light of the fact that over the years app developers have preferred to launch their app on Apple’s iOS operating system first. Generally, it has been seen that after garnering…

Stock in Action: Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) Stock Goes Into Red

Richard Atkins2 months ago11 years ago02 mins

In the 1990s, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) was the toast of Wall Street and arguably one of the top technology growth stocks in the world. Microsoft’s stock reached $46.97 a share last week, against a 52-week high of $47.57. Some of the rise likely derives from the rapid rise in the Nasdaq. Some has to…

Active Stock: German News Firm Ends Fight With Google (NASDAQ GOOG)

Richard Atkins2 months ago11 years ago03 mins

Axel Springer SE (FRA SPR), Germany’s biggest news publisher, has backed off its plan to block Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) from running snippets of articles from its newspapers, saying that the experiment had caused traffic to its web sites to decline dramatically. Google has won a major battle as European publishers give up on trying…

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Richard Atkins

Hot Stock List: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM), Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCOI), Aviv REIT (NYSE:AVIV), Fidelity Southern (NASDAQ:LION), United Insurance (NASDAQ:UIHC)

Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) News: Microsoft Word App Ranks High

Stock in News: A Look At Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Usage Of Cloud

Active Stock: Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Noticing A Shift Towards Android

Stock in Action: Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) Stock Goes Into Red

Active Stock: German News Firm Ends Fight With Google (NASDAQ GOOG)