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Google 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...

Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced recently that it will be discontinuing its current Google Glass and will come up with a new one in some time. Michael Learmonth, Technology Editor at International Business Times, was on CNBC Friday to discuss what made Google discontinue the...

The wearables space is getting hotter with more and more tech majors putting their resources into it. Following the footsteps of others who are already in this space, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) on Monday revealed that it has bought a 30 percent stake (worth $24.8 million) in Google...

Smartphones, tablets and laptops are old news -- it's time for new tech products to take center stage. Read on to see which ones are most likely to make a splash in 2015. Virtual Reality Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE: SNE) and Facebook Inc's Oculus VR are already doing their part to advance virtual reality...

U.S. stocks were mostly lower on Monday, as the holiday shopping season may have disappointed some. The National Retail Federation reported that spending over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend declined 11 percent to $50.9 billion. However, ComScore estimated e-commerce spending rose 32...

This weekend in Barron's online: the Penta Quarterly and a profile of Barry Rosenstein, as well as the prospects for Avon Products, TD Ameritrade, Pitney Bowes and more. Cover Story "Jana Partners' Rosenstein" by Lawrence C. Strauss. How Barry Rosenstein rose from an Asher Edelman underling to...

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) augmented reality glasses have become the company's most expensive product. Could that change in the near future? According to IHS, Google Glass carries a BOM (bill of materials) of just $132.47. IHS estimated that Google spends another $20 on...

U.S. stocks inched higher as Apple's strong earnings reported on Wednesday proved to be not enough to ease fears over an escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine. Reports surfaced of escalated troop movements in Ukraine while Russia began military drills near the Ukraine border. After...

At the rate things are going, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is fast becoming an optical specialty company. In addition to its Google Glass product and tear-monitoring contacts designed to help diabetics control their blood sugar, the Mountain View, CA tech giant has patented a smart contact lens with...

The iPhone 6, iWatch and iPad Air 2 are months away from release, but the hype keeps getting bigger and bigger for all three devices. This helped give Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) a much-needed boost in media attention this week -- especially after losing the spotlight to Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Fire TV...

University of Southern California professor Robert Hernandez is teaching a new class this fall, perhaps the first of its kind. While other journalism classes have included the use of Google Glass (NYSE: GOOG), Hernandez's course will focus entirely on Glass journalism. Hernandez has been...

Could Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) benefit from another executive shuffle? Between Peter Oppenheimer's retirement, the removal of Scott Forstall and a handful of other execs coming and going, Apple is slowly becoming a different company. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry -- one of the...

When they say technology is changing every second, they mean it. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has announced that it will be releasing a software development kit or SDK for programmers to help ease the burden of creating Android apps for smartwatches and other gadgets, according to Re/code. Google...