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The US Commerce Department took the first step to do away with a near forty year old ban on selling unrefined US oil abroad when it approved requests from both Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and Enterprise Products Partners LP to begin selling condensate oil to foreigners. Permission has only...

The clock is ticking for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) long-awaited smart watch. Rumors claim that it could arrive in September 2014, but investors shouldn't forget that Apple was also expected to release a wearable device last September. Unfortunately, it might be too late for Apple to enter the market...

One way or the other Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) will change. In a major way, it already has with its decision to stop making tablets and farm the work out to electronics partners, according to Bloomberg. Barnes & Noble really had no choice. The company’s Nook Media digital unit has...

We are increasingly becoming a “device oriented” society on a worldwide basis. Moreover, the trend will grow by 5.9 percent in 2013, according to a news release from information technology research and advisory company, Gartner, Monday. Shipments of devices (PCs, tablets, and mobile phones),...

“Hey, check this out!” These words – as part of a text message or email – often precede a link to a YouTube video, something that is fast becoming the entertainment choice “du jour” for millennials. Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) through its venture arm, Comcast Ventures, noted the trend and...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still #1. That’s not just Apple fans talking. Research firm, comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) released its latest data based on surveys of more than 30, 000 mobile subscribers in the U.S. and the surveys said: Of the 138.5 million smartphones out there, 39.2 percent (54.3 million...

A bidding war between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) may be about to erupt, according to Bloomberg. The object of the conflict is Waze, a smartphone-mapping app with unique social features. Waze provides driving directions with a twist. Users submit information about traffic...

A highly placed source inside Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) told blog site Insider Monkey late Friday that last week’s rumor that Microsoft was about to make a $1 billion offer to buy NOOK Media LLC from Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) reported by TechCrunch was – alas – only a rumor. Barnes &...

The good news is that U.S. television broadcast networks, namely The Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE: DIS) ABC, CBS (NYSE: CBS), News Corp.’s (NASDAQ: NWSA) Fox, and Comcast’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC, can expect advertising rate hikes of about six percent this week during the start of the important “upfront...

In the expensive, high stakes world of sports advertising, winning is not everything. It’s something – just not everything. Brand exposure is everything. Since most corporations sponsor the event, not specific teams, they don’t really care who wins. They care whether fans are engaged, tuning in...

Should banks be nervous? Not yet, but they should be paying attention to the fact that search giant, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), along with existing investor, Foundation Capital, just plunked down a $125 million investment in peer-to-peer lending platform, Lending Club. Peer-to-peer lending,...

Far too many people as they plan for college say, “Well I guess I’m going to have to borrow money to pay for school.” It might come to that, but look for free money first. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 million Americans attended college last year and 12 million of them (60...

Are European regulators tougher than their American counterparts? Based on results of two recent antitrust investigations, one might be led to think so. Google(NASDAQ: GOOG) came out of the Federal Trade Commission’s probe in January relatively unscathed. The FTC essentially dismissed...

Cyber security matters. Just ask The Associated Press. Or Wall Street. By now, everyone knows that somebody hacked AP’s Twitter account and sent out a fake tweet reporting two explosions at the White House and that President Obama had been injured. In the minutes after the tweet went out,...

It’s been a year since General Motors (NYSE: GM) broke up with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), advertising-wise. Now the couple is a couple again. General Motors has bought a series of test ads to run on Facebook’s mobile apps and website. The auto manufacturer designed the ads to promote its Chevrolet...