Priceline Group Inc (NASDAQ:PCLN) Director Jeffery H. Boyd sold 3,000 shares of Priceline Group stock on the open market in a transaction dated Tuesday, July 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $1,228.00, for a total transaction of $3,684,000.00. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 194,125 shares of the company’s…
Recently, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) launched a new app for celebrities and public figures for the iOS platform, which will speed up their interaction with the fans. Through the app named Facebook Mentions, users can read the dedicated mentions feed and start mobile Q&As. On the top of their personal pages, the users will see…
In the first quarter of the year, Spain’s largest bank, Grupo Santander SAN , earned EUR 1,205 million, up significantly from the EUR 401 million it earned in the trailing quarter. Most of this increase was due to the non-recurrence of special loan loss provisions in the fourth quarter; excluding this, earnings were up 18%…
It was business as usual for the biotech sector last week with highlights including a deal for the acquisition of product rights, encouraging study results and the granting of breakthrough therapy status for an experimental cancer treatment. Here we take a look at all these news in detail. Regado Biosciences saw its shares plunging 58%…
PayFast, a leading South African payment processor, started offering the digital currency bitcoin as a payment option, making it available to the firm’s 30,000 merchant customers. It becomes the first payment processor in South Africa, and one of the first anywhere, to offer the cryptocurrency as an option. The subject of Africa and developing markets…
Marketing developer partner Nanigans recently released a study about cost per click growth on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB). The firm said it sees global cost per click on the social network as rising 29% in the second quarter compared to 39% in the previous quarter. However, Evercore Partners analysts think the percentage is too high….
