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.

Stock Update: Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) Looking To Break Language Barriers

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) is bringing the world of Star Trek closer to reality with its mind-blowing real-time translation tool that it intends to be used through Skype. To demonstrate the new Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) technology, Quest spoke to a Microsoft engineer. He spoke English while the engineer who worked on translation technology at…

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Stock in News: Market Impact Due To Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Earnings

After higher expenses and slightly slower growth in advertising, resulting in disappointing earnings, Google (NASDAQ GOOG) is trading down fractionally while the benchmark Nasdaq Composite stock index was trading up 1.45 percent in early morning trade. After the bell yesterday, Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) reported third quarter revenue of $16.52 billion, down slightly from the…

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Bitcoin News: A Look At Bitcoin’s Progress in Brazil

Members of Brazil’s bitcoin community say that while past issues have contributed to the current weak market, more important hurdles remain. A lingering regulatory uncertainty, a relative lack of merchant adoption and the limited availability of Portuguese-language bitcoin resources, they said, are all reasons why Brazil’s market has yet to ignite. For better or worse,…

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