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.
Finance, Internet

(NASDAQ FB) Facebook Stock : a Game Changer with Location Based Advertising

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) launched a new advertising type – local awareness ads, which will be available to U.S. advertisers in few weeks time while it will take few months to make the said feature available on a global scale. This is yet another way of money making and if it does not get the required response from the advertisers and users, Facebook will make … Continue reading (NASDAQ FB) Facebook Stock : a Game Changer with Location Based Advertising

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Finance, Mobile

Google Launches New Apps For iOS Users : a Revolution is coming (NASDAQ GOOG)

Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) launched a news and weather app for iOS users on Wednesday. This handy new app will offer personalized news and weather. It will pull local information from up 65,000 publications including 60 country editions. Users can also customize the app to show topics like fashion, Hollywood, and NASA. Up until today, Google only offered the News and Weather app for Android. … Continue reading Google Launches New Apps For iOS Users : a Revolution is coming (NASDAQ GOOG)

Richard Atkins
Finance, Mobile

(NASDAQ AAPL) Apple Stock Downgraded : What Impact?

Apple Inc (NASDAQ AAPL) stock has rallied 26.47% year-to-date. However, Deutsche Bank analysts led by Sherri Scribner believe that the stock has “limited catalysts” going forward. The research firm has downgraded the stock from Buy to Hold, and reduced the price target from $105 to $102. The rally in Apple stock this year was mainly driven by huge expectations from the iPhone 6 and 6 … Continue reading (NASDAQ AAPL) Apple Stock Downgraded : What Impact?

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BioTech, Finance

Biotech Stocks: A Look At the Most Promising Biotech Stocks

The oft-trodden path for a startup biotech is to aim for either a buyout or an IPO—or at minimum, a partnership with a big pharmaceutical company—before dealing with the hefty price tag of a Phase 3 study. One local biotech, however, took on the risk of bucking that trend—and succeeded. That story and much more below. Boston and Hayward, CA-based Intarcia turned heads earlier this … Continue reading Biotech Stocks: A Look At the Most Promising Biotech Stocks

Richard Atkins
Finance, Software

Bitcoin News: Bitcoin Symbol and Code to Be Standardised soon

The Bitcoin Foundation’s Financial Standards Working Group has shed new light on its priorities for the next six months, announcing it will attempt to standardise bitcoin’s code, currency symbol and subunits over that period. The group’s formal plan of action follows its first emergence as an unnamed standards committee this June, when a post on the Bitcoin Foundation community forum called for volunteers for the … Continue reading Bitcoin News: Bitcoin Symbol and Code to Be Standardised soon

Richard Atkins
Finance, Internet

Stock Review: Bill Gates Happy With the “New” Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT)

Bill Gates sat down with Bloomberg Television anchor Erik Schatzker at the Sibos conference in Boston, where they discussed Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT)’s strategy, the Ebola outbreak, his philanthropic efforts, financial payment systems in Africa and more. On whether Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is moving fast enough, Gates said, “I’m very happy with what he’s doing. I see a new sense of energy. There’s a … Continue reading Stock Review: Bill Gates Happy With the “New” Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT)

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