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.

Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) Stock News: Microsoft makes Bing Mobile Friendly

Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) will be making Bing Search Engine mobile friendly. This news comes days after Google (NASDAQ GOOG) did the same with their own Search Engine. Signifying the importance of smartphones and other mobile devices, Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) announced that they will be prioritizing mobile friendly websites on its search engine, Bing. Here in…

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Airline Stocks In News: Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL), Spirit Airlines Incorporated (NASDAQ:SAVE), The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA)

Italian airline Alitalia on May 15, 2014 confirmed that it is suspending service to Venezuela between the start of June and the end of October because of growing disputes over delays in repatriating revenue under the country’s currency controls. Major airlines flying to Venezuela include American Airlines, Lufthansa, Delta Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL), Avianca….

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Biotech Losers: PTC Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PTCT), Prosensa Holding (NASDAQ:RNA), Concert Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:CNCE), Tetralogic Pharmaceuticals Corp (NASDAQ:TLOG), Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:AGIO)

One solution, developed by PTC Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PTCT), a US biotechnology company, is to intervene in the transcription process in which the DNA is converted first to messenger RNA and then into protein. PTC Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PTCT)’s experimental drug ataluren is designed to override the false stop signal by interacting with the ribosome – the…

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Tech Volatile Stocks: Gogo Inc (NASDAQ:GOGO), Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PXLW), Mattson Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MTSN), XG Technology Inc (NASDAQ:XGTI)

Gogo Inc (NASDAQ:GOGO) on May 12 announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. The company reported record first quarter revenue of $95.7 million, up 35% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA for Q1 2014 was $5.3 million, up 87% from $2.9 million in Q1 2013, driven by strong performance by our CA-NA and BA…

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