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Former Hedge Fund Manager: The Street Is Apathetic To Google's Earnings Report
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 2:15pm | 422Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) could get a boost if it beats analyst expectations. The company is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter results after the market close Thursday. Cody Willard, a former hedge fund manager and chairman of Scutify (a financial social network), thinks...
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Can Google Sell Expensive, High-Tech Glasses Without A Store Presence?
Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 8:05pm | 658Last fall, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) conducted an interesting experiment. Instead of launching Surface RT (the company's first tablet) at tech outlets across the country, Microsoft decided to sell the device exclusively online. This sales plan may have been designed to create a distinct style and...
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Google's Project Glass is Already Being Cloned
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 4:37pm | 501Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has yet to publicly release its first set of glasses but they are already being cloned by a Chinese competitor. Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), which runs the largest search engine in China, is currently developing a prototype device that will be very similar to Project Glass....
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Four Technologies to Watch in 2013
Saturday, December 8, 2012 - 2:03pm | 615Over the past 12 months, tech companies have added touch screens to just about everything. This trend will surely continue in 2013, but what is the next big thing in technology? What can consumers and business professionals look forward to in the next 12 months? Flexible Screens Samsung, LG and...
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More than 1,000 Developers Sign Up for Google's Project Glass
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 9:42am | 152Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) long-awaited Project Glass prototype is proving to be much more popular with the development community than the company anticipated. "As of 4:00 p.m. [yesterday], about 1,200 developers signed up [for the] preview release of Google Glasses," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing...
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Google to Overtake Apple in 2016
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 2:00pm | 1396The iPhone maker's days are numbered. You've been warned. I frequently tell my friends and colleagues that it would only take one brilliant device for Sony (NYSE: SNE), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), or Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) to turn themselves around. If it's popular...
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Why Google is My Favorite Company
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 10:16am | 1134From innovative search and map technology to smartphones and Project Glass, Google has grown into one of the most important tech companies in the world. And now it's my favorite company. I'm not an investor. I don't have any positions on the company's stock. Frankly, I really don't care if Google...
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Google "Project Glass" Promo Uses Kindle Song
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:07am | 365Coincidence or copycat? While watching the scarily impressive video for Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) brilliant digital glasses project, Project Glass, I couldn't help but notice that there was something familiar about it. Not the glasses themselves, but something within the video. Then it hit me: the...
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Google Pays Beautiful Woman to Make Project Glass Look Cool
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 1:11pm | 832She's hot. She's sexy. And she's got a dorky piece of eyewear attached to her face. It turns out that the rumors were true -- Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) does want to augment our reality. But instead of doing it with silly apps and other gimmicks that will die off faster than a Top 40 one-hit-wonder,...