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

Stock in Focus: Product Management VP of Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Resigns

Sam Lessin, the vice president of product management of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) announced his resignation in a post on the company’s website yesterday. According to him, he will step down from his position effective August 29. Lessin didn’t have immediate plans for his next move for his career, but intends to help his wife’s online publication and spend some time-off kite surfing and skiing. … Continue reading Stock in Focus: Product Management VP of Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Resigns

Richard Atkins
Analysis, Finance, Internet

Facebook Plans To Know More About Customer Shopping Habits : Top Stock NASDAQ FB

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) is likely rekindling privacy worries with its new plans to study users’ shopping habits across multiple devices. The social network says it will tell advertisers on what device shoppers first viewed the items they bought and then which device they were using when they actually purchased the item. Facebook has revealed plans to give advertisers even more information about its users. … Continue reading Facebook Plans To Know More About Customer Shopping Habits : Top Stock NASDAQ FB

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BioTech, Finance

Biotech News: Allscripts Healthcare & Clinical Architecture Extend Critical Alliance

Extending its association with Carmel, IN-based software solutions provider – Clinical Architecture, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (MDRX) contracted to integrate the former’s comprehensive terminology management system, Symedical, with its dbMotion interoperability platform to streamline vocabulary mapping. By incorporating Symedical, Allscripts intends to provide its clients with efficient and enhanced mapping tools and improved vocabulary distribution. This would allow the clients to achieve health information exchange … Continue reading Biotech News: Allscripts Healthcare & Clinical Architecture Extend Critical Alliance

Richard Atkins
Finance, Software

PayPal Subsidiary Braintree On Verge of Accepting Bitcoin

Payments firm Braintree, a subsidiary of eBay and PayPal, is “in talks” with Coinbase and several other processing companies on the possibility of accepting bitcoin, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Braintree provides payments software for a number of popular mobile applications including Uber, Airbnb, and GitHub.

The company, which was acquired by PayPal for $800m in December last year, was processing up to $12bn in payments annually at the time – $4bn of that via mobile apps. No matter which bitcoin processor Braintree may choose, accepting digital currency would represent another significant step in bitcoin’s lifecycle.

“People familiar with the matter” stressed that any deal would not include either eBay or PayPal accepting bitcoin for now, though senior executives including eBay CEO John Donahoe have at times expressed an interest in ways to accept digital currencies, even describing it as “inevitable”.

News on Bitcoins

Anyone who doubted the seriousness of those comments in the media may be swayed if a partner business as close as Braintree began accepting bitcoin, demonstrating its utility on a slightly smaller scale than the two online giants. It could also represent a foot in the door for future acceptance

Both Uber and Airbnb have much in common with bitcoin. The startups have been lauded by supporters in the technology world for their disruption of the taxi and hotel industry, though they have also encountered stiff opposition from established participants in those segments. Thanks to its formal partnership with PayPal, also an eBay subsiduary, Braintree now serves 40 countries and 130 different currencies.

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Richard Atkins
Finance, Internet

Stock in Focus: A Report on Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Chromebook

Here in this article we take a look at Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Chromebook. The device is seldom overlooked, especially because the company’s Android mobile operating system has achieved so much success over the years. But this is not something investors should sleep on. This is not something consumers in the market for a notebook should overlook. Many vendors are excited about the future of their … Continue reading Stock in Focus: A Report on Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Chromebook

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AAPL NASDAQ AAPL Apple Inc
Finance, Mobile

Active Stock: Apple (NASDAQ AAPL) iWatch Release Date Reveiled

Apple (NASDAQ AAPL) iWatch continues to be a hot topic in the technology community. The rumor mill has been churning out suggestions of what kinds of features it might have, its release date and more. Now we have a report indicating that the iWatch will be available for purchase on Nov. 14—a couple of weeks before the Black Friday shopping day. It’s still unclear when … Continue reading Active Stock: Apple (NASDAQ AAPL) iWatch Release Date Reveiled

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