Sheryl Sandberg Just Gave Away $11.8 Million In Facebook Stock (FB)
According to a new SEC filing, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave awayĀ 429,184 shares of Facebook stock on November 20 ā a gift worth $11.8 million.The filing did not name the...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Has 68 More Shares Of Facebook Than He Did Last Month (FB)
Mark Zuckerberg owns about $14 billion in Facebook sharesāalmost entirely in Class B shares, which give him voting control of the company but can't be sold like Class A shares.And indeed, he's said he...
View ArticleThe Guy Who Just Won $2.7 Billion From Yahoo Is In San Francisco Meeting With...
Carlos Bazan-Canabal, the founder of Worldwide Directories, sued Yahoo after a deal to produce print and online telephone directores in Mexico fell through. He just won a $2.7 billion judgment in a...
View ArticleIt's A Sad Comment On The State Of America That Words Like "Fair" And "Share"...
I recently wrote about one of the things that has gone wrong in the U.S. economy--namely, that big American corporations are no longer sharing enough of their vast wealth with their rank-and-file...
View ArticleAnd Here Is Why It Must Be So Cool To Work At The Top Of Apple (AAPL, GOOG)
In his long interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, BloombergBusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel asked how always having to come up with yet another amazing gadget affects Cook personally.Cook's...
View ArticleWhat It Was Like When Steve Jobs Told Tim Cook He Was Going To Be CEO Of...
One day in the summer of 2011, Tim Cook got a call from Steve Jobs."Iād like to talk to you," said Jobs."Fine, when," asked Cook."Now," said Jobs.So, Cook dropped what he was doing and headed over to...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Apple's Share Of The World's Largest Market Is Cratering (AAPL)
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple Inc's rank in China's smartphone market, which is set to become the world's largest this year, fell to No.6 in the third quarter as it faced tough competition from Chinese...
View ArticleTim Cook Just Dropped His Biggest Hint Yet That Apple Is Making A TV (AAPL)
The biggest question surrounding Apple these days is what product category it will tackle next.Ā Most think that's a television set.Ā Apparently, Tim Cook thinks so too.In an interview with NBC, Brian...
View ArticleMonths Before He Died, Steve Jobs Believed He Would Live For Years As Apple's...
When, in the summer of 2011, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told COO Tim Cook that he wanted Cook to become CEO, both men still believed Jobs was getting better, and that he would live for a long time as Apple's...
View ArticleHow A Company Targeting Grandparents Became The Most Popular Thing On...
When you think of the brands that dominate on Facebook, companies like Coca-Cola, Red Bull, and Disney spring to mind. Grandparents.com, not so much.But according to Track Social, Grandparents.com was...
View ArticleHere's Why Zynga Stock Is Up So Big (ZNGA)
Zynga stock is up almost 7% this morning.Why?Yesterday, it applied for a real-money gambling liscense in Nevada.Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story Ā»
View ArticleGuatemala Is Planning To Send John McAfee Back To Belize
Guatemalan police arrested U.S. software guru John McAfee on Wednesday for illegally entering the country and said it would seek to expel him to neighboring Belize, which he fled after being sought for...
View ArticleApple Stock Recovers After Early Selloff
UPDATE 10:00 AM: After an early selloff, Apple is pretty much flat.UPDATE: The stock is tanking more.Ā After falling 6% yesterday, the stock has opened down 3.2%.This all comes as Apple CEO Tim Cook...
View ArticleJeff Gundlach Warned That The Fiscal Cliff Would Be A Problem For Stocks Like...
Jeff Gundlach, the legendary bond guru behind DoubleLine Funds, declared Apple as one of his "favorite generational shorts" at a conference earlier this year.He warned that the "rainmaker is gone" and...
View ArticleHow Apple Decides What Products To Make (AAPL)
Since 2001, Apple has been on a hot streak that will probably never been seen again.The iPod, the iPhone, MacBook Air, and the iPad are industry defining products that changed the world, and made...
View ArticleThis Weapon Could Stop Apple From Getting Samsung Products Banned
Apple and Samsung are going back to court today in just one front of their global patent war.San Jose, Calif. federal judge Lucy Koh will consider reversing ā or adjusting ā a $1.05 billion award for...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How To Solve Mobile Advertising's "Monetization Problem"
Despite its potential, legitimate questions surround the widespread assumption that mobile ad spend will skyrocket to meet engagement.Mobile faces a big gap in advertising dollars vs. consumer "eyeball...
View ArticleThe Only Smartphones Worth Buying Right Now [RANKED] (VZ, T, DT, S)
Phew!We finally made it past the holiday release schedule for this year's smartphones. And there are a bunch of great ones to check out.We ranked the best smartphones out there in the order you should...
View ArticleGE's New Strategy Involves Poaching Tons Of Silicon Valley Engineers
GE recently held a huge conferenceĀ in San Francisco on how it plans to dominate the "industrial Internet" by building advanced digital tools into their machines, and creating a better digital...
View ArticleLIVE: Spotify Is Introducing A New Way To Discover Music
We're here live at Spotify's "Discover what's next" event. We have no idea what the streaming music service is supposed to announce but there is a band setting up.We're waiting for the event to start....
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