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.

Automaker Stocks In News: Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM)

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers recently filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for permission to replace side mirrors with cameras, a dumb idea for those of us living above 40 degrees north latitude, stretching from New Jersey to northern California. Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock performance…

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Application Software: Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK), Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE), salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM)

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) has updated its user community on the security status of its long list of software products. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) doesn’t use the name “Heartbleed” much, instead referring to the bug by its technical moniker CVE-2014-0160. The company says more than 100 of its products are secure as they did not employ the…

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