This year’s World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 40 percent of Facebook’s 1.28 billion users are football fans. On Tuesday, the world’s biggest online social network is adding new features to help fans…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s resurgent stock may have as much to do with financial engineering as the company’s technological wizardry. Monday marked Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s first stock split in nine years, a move designed to make it more affordable to buy shares of the iPhone and iPad maker. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock performance was 1.60% in…
Usmanov has sold most of his Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) shares and expects to benefit from investments in China’s Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. (JD), Ivan Streshinskiy, head of the billionaire’s asset-management company USM Advisors LLC, said in March. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) stock performance was -1.09% in last session and finished the…
Once again, Twitter, Alibaba, Sprint and T-Mobile US are the major stocks in the news today. Sprint (NYSE:S) and T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS) have agreed on a $32 billion merger. According to a WSJ report, recent regulatory developments convinced executives at Sprint and T-Mobile US to develop their telecommunications companies with joint forces. A deal approval is…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) CFO David A. Ebersman sold 23,400 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $63.62, for a total value of $1,488,708.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 328,030 shares in the company, valued at approximately…
