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Facebook Vs. Google: Which Is The Best Mad Scientist?

The stock market has been back in a confirmed uptrend for awhile, but long-term, the bull market is aging, so it’s important to pick stocks that are innovative and nimble but have the strength to weather market swings. IBD’s Screen Of The Day is Young Guns, which looks for top-rated companies that have come public in the last 15 years. Two standouts on the list, Facebook (FB) and Google’s parent Alphabet (GOOGL), meet the criteria of being big and

What’s Up? Maybe Cisco Will Just Report EPS, Sales Up

So busy lately handling non-M&As — strategic alliances — and actual acquisitions, Cisco Systems (CSCO) may offer investors relief Thursday when it reports largely organic first-quarter performance data after the market closes. After Monday’s partnership announcement with Ericsson (ERIC), and several real acquisition plans disclosed recently, shareholders will get a chance to focus on where Cisco has just been. For Cisco’s Q1 of fiscal 2016, the

Tale Of Two Companies: Jack Dorsey At Twitter, Square

Elon Musk is doing it. Steve Jobs did it. And both said that it’s an awfully tough thing to do — being the chief executive officer of two big companies at the same time. But that hasn’t stopped Jack Dorsey from running the gauntlet as CEO of both Twitter (TWTR) and Square, the mobile payment processing company that he is taking public. Dorsey co-founded both companies. Dorsey recently returned to Twitter; last month, he was named CEO of the