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.

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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HoT STocks: MeetMe Inc (NASDAQ:MEET), Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU), Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), Weibo Corp (ADR) (NASDAQ:WB), SouFun Holdings Ltd (NYSE:SFUN)

MeetMe Inc (NASDAQ:MEET) announced its earnings results on Thursday. The company reported ($0.09) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.03) by $0.06, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports. The company had revenue of $9.50 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.38 million. MeetMe Inc (NASDAQ:MEET) stock performance was -0.87%…

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Internet Most Active STocks: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)

Snapchat received a US$3 billion (RM9.7 billion) buyout offer from Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) late last year, which it rejected. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) later acquired mobile messaging app Whatsapp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition ever.Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock finished the day at $5983. Traded volume was 1,502.00million shares in the last session and the average…

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