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.

Market Watch List: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE:AKS), Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Flamel Technologies SA (NASDAQ:FLML)

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s New Year Resolution: More Video Ads in News Feed. The amount of video on Facebook Inc.’s news feed more than tripled last year, as many users and advertisers discovered the option for the first time. How much bigger video will get on the social network depends largely on Fidji Simo. Facebook Inc…

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Market Movers: AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Sanmina Corporation (NASDAQ:SANM), Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (NYSE:ASX), Resource Capital Corp. (NYSE:RSO)

AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV) rival Gilead makes exclusive deal with CVS for hep C drugs. The deal blocks North Chicago-based AbbVie Inc.’s treatment, called Viekira Pak, which will only be available to patients given approval because of medical exceptions or through a process called prior authorization, according to CVS. Patients already taking Viekira Pak will be…

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Investor’s Alert: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Glori Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:GLRI), BancFirst Corporation (NASDAQ:BANF), Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT)

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) to Live Stream Video of Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Earnings on Yahoo Finance on January 27, 2015. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) belongs to Technology sector. Its weekly performance is -2.61%. On last trading day company shares ended up $49.21. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -0.52%….

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