Barron’s magazine gave Amazon.com some bearish treatment in a piece over the weekend — saying that the company is “dangerous” for competitors and shareholders, and concluding that Amazon’s share price… Read More
Shares of Outerwall, the Bellevue company best known for its Coinstar coin counting machines and Redbox movie rental kiosks, jumped more than 17 percent after the New York investment firm… Read More
Wow, shares of Zillow, on a rocket ship ride since the beginning of the year, are soaring again today after news that Australian billionaire James Packer bought 9.4 percent of… Read More
Wow, it’s a bit tough to really figure out what CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer feels about Zillow. You may recall him flipping hsi opinion last fall, something I… Read More
Tech issues have halted the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Trading was stopped on the stock market — home to companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Google — after a technical issue of… Read More
Zillow filled its coffers yesterday afternoon when the company announced a stock offering of 2.5 million shares at $82 per share, a sale that added about $205 million to the… Read More
Zillow has a lot more cash in its bank account as of this afternoon. The Seattle online real estate company announced today that it sold 5,023,486 shares in a public… Read More
In its first earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Seattle-based Tableau wowed Wall Street, posting revenues of $49.9 million for the quarter. That was up 71 percent over the same… Read More
The red-hot U.S. housing market is helping Zillow, which posted strong revenue and traffic gains during the second quarter. The Seattle online real estate company posted revenue of $46.9 million… Read More
It’s kind of like the first and second rules of Fight Club. If you work at Zillow, you do not talk about Zillow’s stock price. Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff discussed the… Read More
David Einhorn, the outspoken hedge fund operator who once called for Microsoft Steve Ballmer to step down, has officially tossed in the towel on the company after seven years. In… Read More
Shares of F5 Networks took off in after hours trading following the company’s quarterly earnings announcement. F5, a maker of hardware and software products that speed up the delivery of… Read More
Minetta Brook, a big data startup led by Deepak “DB” Bharadwaj and Prabhu Venkatesh, has raised $2 million in seed funding to continue work on its first product for the financial services… Read More
When Zillow went public at $20 per share two years ago, some doubters believed that the online real estate company would get hammered in the public markets. Too small. Too… Read More
Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff is in the danger zone — at least as he sees it. In an interview with The Motley Fool, Rascoff said that the most dangerous time… Read More
Seattle Genetics has agreed to license its antibody-drug conjugate technology to Bayer HealthCare, a deal that could be worth as much as $520 million if milestones ar met. Shares of Seattle Genetics… Read More
Here’s a way to get more Twitter followers: Exude confidence. That’s the finding from a study done by a pair of doctoral candidates in economics at Washington State University who analyzed more… Read More
Everyone is talking about Yahoo’s big buy of Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. It’s a sexy story, in part because Yahoo is trying to revive itself with the ultra-hip New… Read More
Tableau Software is starting on the New York Stock Exchange today with a bang. After pricing its initial public offering Thursday night at $31, the stock took off in early-morning… Read More
Apple is already considered the biggest company on the planet in terms of market value — clocking in at $433 billion despite a 13 percent stock slide so far this… Read More
The week is starting out well for many tech stocks, with Microsoft gaining more than two percent and Apple — which has been battered so far this year — up… Read More
Earlier this week, Zillow chairman Rich Barton declared how the Seattle online real estate company is leading a revolution. Wall Street seems to be buying into that vision. Not only… Read More
I was perplexed earlier this week when NASDAQ OMX Group announced plans to remove Zillow from the NASDAQ Internet Index — noting that the publicly-traded Seattle online real estate company was no longer considered… Read More
Zillow has been one step ahead Trulia since the early days — beating its longtime rival to market with an automated home valuation service; releasing mobile apps first and, most… Read More
Super computers. Online travel. And marketing tools for real estate agents. Those were the hot segments in the Seattle tech sector in 2012 as Cray, Expedia and Market Leader each… Read More
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is making headlines today for comments he made at a tech conference hosted by The New York Times in which he said that some technology stocks… Read More
CNBC talk show host Jim Cramer is known for his loud and outrageous on-screen antics, and earlier this week the “Mad Money” host turned his attention to three real estate… Read More
Citadel, the Chicago hedge fund led by billionaire financier Kenneth Griffin, has filed documents with the SEC disclosing that it owns 6.1 percent of Seattle online real estate company Zillow.… Read More
Shares of F5 Networks tumbled more than 10 percent in after hours trading today after the Seattle maker of networking equipment and software missed its fourth quarter numbers and scaled… Read More
Shares of Google are tumbling today after the search giant released quarterly earnings in which the company reported revenue of $14.10 billion, a 45 percent increase. However, net income fell… Read More