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.
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Finance, Internet

Stock in News: A Report on Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Autoplay Feature

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) Auto Play is possibly eating away the mobile data limit of the smartphones faster, thus increasing the mobile bills of the users. If the users skip to change the default setting in the Facebook, which automatically start streaming videos in the News Feed Window, their data plan will be over early. Auto Play feature in Facebook Inc is being blamed for … Continue reading Stock in News: A Report on Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Autoplay Feature

Richard Atkins
Finance, Internet

Google GOOG Stock News: Artificial Super Computer Now on Google’s Radar

Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) is expanding its technological footprint beyond search, robotics, automated cars and drones by developing a super-fast quantum computer chip used in artificial intelligence. Move could expand the company’s dominance in the world of computing, touching a variety of business lines and creating a business category of its own. The Mountain View-based firm announced it was adding University of California, Santa Barbara … Continue reading Google GOOG Stock News: Artificial Super Computer Now on Google’s Radar

Richard Atkins
Finance, Internet

Stock in Focus: Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Ties Up With Abbvie To Prevent Aging

AbbVie Inc (NYSE ABBV), the speciality pharma firm spun off from Abbott Laboratories (NYSE ABT) almost a year ago, and Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) new Calico division will spend up to $1.5 billion to research cures to age-related diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Google’s Calico and AbbVie forms a $1,5 billion aging-related disease partnership. The September 3rd statement announcing the new partnership noted … Continue reading Stock in Focus: Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Ties Up With Abbvie To Prevent Aging

Richard Atkins
Finance, Internet

Facebook FB Stock Milestone: FB Joins $200 Billion Market Capitalization Club

With Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB)’s stock opening at $77 a share in trading today, it pushed its market capitalization over $200 billion joining other tech giants in this rarefied air. That is an effective doubling of the company’s market cap from when it went public in May of 2012 and nearly four times its low after it lost nearly half its market capitalization following the … Continue reading Facebook FB Stock Milestone: FB Joins $200 Billion Market Capitalization Club

Richard Atkins
Finance, Mobile

Apple AAPL Stock Update: Apple Stock Falls With Galaxy Note 4 Launch

Apple Inc (NASDAQ AAPL) is expected to unveil the iPhone 6 and possibly other gadgets like the rumored iWatch at its planned event next week. The company’s stock has been climbing ahead of that unveiling—just as it has historically—but apparently investors are worrying because of what the company’s top competitor has just shown off. Shares of Apple Inc (AAPL) fell as much as 3% in … Continue reading Apple AAPL Stock Update: Apple Stock Falls With Galaxy Note 4 Launch

Richard Atkins
Finance, Internet

Microsoft MSFT Stock Review: Is Microsoft A Digital Dinosaur?

After a post-earnings slide, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) has seen its stock price recover and gain slightly, but some critics remain unconvinced that the tech giant can justify price multiples that would have been considered cheap ten years ago. Indigo Equity Research argues that Microsoft is still too dependent on the PC market and has 30% downside. “We consider Microsoft to be overvalued given its … Continue reading Microsoft MSFT Stock Review: Is Microsoft A Digital Dinosaur?

Richard Atkins