Tech Bubble

Editor's note: Mark Cuban has since responded on Twitter. "@markfidelman @Benzinga worst response ever. He compares private to public cos. Ignores individuals who will lose 100pct of their investment." It looks like Alibaba is investing $200 million in Snapchat, translating (...

As reported on Thursday, billionaire businessman and investor Mark Cuban compared the current state of the technology market to the dot-com bubble of 2000. According to a note posted on his blog, the tech sector is once again in a bubble and he believes it to be even worse than the last one....

Gemma Godfrey says there isn’t a bubble in the technology sector, but there are pockets of over-evaluation. “It’s so important to differentiate between them,” she said. Along with being CNBC’s first official contributor in Europe, Godfrey has been voted as the...

Tuesday's missive discussed the idea that really big, really bad bear markets just don't happen that often. And since investors were treated to two devastating bears within a 9-year stretch, most folks are keeping their eyes wide open and preparing for the next one. The key point is that the...

Like so many bright-eyed tech entrepreneurs in 1999, 23-year-old Colin Day never anticipated what the coming years would bring. Day’s company, iCIMS, builds software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for human resources departments. At the time, iCIMS was investing heavily in growth, depending on...

We have supposedly just witnessed the worst downturn since the great depression, or as some have stated the "great recession". We are suffering very high unemployment close to 10% and rising, housing prices down 30% + form their peak, a widespread deleverageing of households, and endless government...