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Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) shares shot up more than 100 percent following the launch of the hit game Pokémon GO, adding more than $21 billion to Nintendo's market cap. Many analysts have begun to move on from Nintendo to showcase the impacts Pokémon GO could have on tech companies such as...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) announced on Wednesday it now boasts four different user products each with 1 billion users. Coincidentally or not, Facebook's stock also hit an all-time high of $121.94. Facebook said in release that one billion people across the world now use its Messenger on a...

According to Tech Crunch, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) started offering end-to-end encryption to its Facebook Messenger users, allowing users to secure their chats. This feature, called "secret conversations" will be offered to a limited test group on Friday. Related Link: Google Buys Video...

“If you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em,” seems to be Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ: FB)’s position regarding messaging. The social media giant is set to swallow up traditional text messaging by making the option for old-school messaging available in the Messenger app,...

Stifel analysts Scott Devitt, Lamont Williams and Ansel Parikh provided some key insights into eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY) as the online auctioneer reaches the halfway point of its 18–24-month transformation effort. The transformation journey seeks to make eBay the best choice, most relevant and...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s social media dominance and number one positioning is, for the most part, well understood by investors. However, there is a key debate going on between which company is ranked as the second best social media empire – Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) or Snapchat. CNBC,...

Jason Rotman of Lido Advisors believes Facbeook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is the "ultimate growth stock" and told Fox Business why. Rotman is expecting shares of Facebook to climb to $200 per share within the next 24 months – a price target that may "seem outlandish to some,"...

Following the robust 1Q results reported by Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Robert "Bob" S. Peck of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey stated, “Expectations remain high and investors may overestimate the timing, adoption and success of new products.” Peck maintained a Buy rating on the company,...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) reported robust 1Q results, while maintaining its cash open growth guidance for 2016. JPMorgan’s Doug Anmuth reiterated an Overweight rating on the company, while raising the price target from $136 to $161. “FB remains in a class by itself across the...

Credit Suisse’s Stephen Ju believes that investors in Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) would benefit in the long term, not only from the monetization of Messenger, but also from WhatsApp. The analyst maintained an Outperform rating on Facebook, while raising the price target from $140 to $142...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) announced at the F8 Developer Conference that the Messenger app was now open to natural-language chatbots that were designed to handle all types of customer service queries. Jefferies’ Brian Pitz maintained a Buy rating on the company, with a price target of $145...

Axiom’s Victor Anthony believes that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is becoming “the world’s largest communications and entertainment platform,” and that the stock therefore deserves to trade at a premium. The analyst maintained a Buy rating on the company, while raising the...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) will drop support for BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY) phones. The announcement comes after its subsidiary WhatsApp made a similar move last month when it said it would end support for WhatsApp Messenger on BlackBerry phones by the end of this year. BlackBerry said it is "...