Google (GOOGL) might have more fuel in its engine than a lot of investors are giving the company credit for. The global search leader, whose stock price is down 6% from where it was a year ago, will continue to keep its lead over rivals Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) in the search business, says John Blackledge, an analyst for Cowen and Co. And it will do so, he says, while getting increasing mileage for its Android operating system
The Internet of Things era might not wait for the arrival of 5G wireless, the next-generation broadband standard expected to accommodate IoT nicely. Some chipmakers, network gear suppliers and mobile phone companies are working on an interim 4G standard aimed at making wireless networks more accommodating for the IoT and a related field called machine-to-machine communications. Supporters of IoT-friendly 4G standards include Qualcomm (QCOM), Korea
Box is going to have to take another punch. The online storage and file-sharing service, whose stock has failed to perform since the company’s much-anticipated IPO in January, late Wednesday also disappointed with its first quarterly earnings since going public. Box (BOX) stock was down 13% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company released results for its fiscal Q4, ended Jan. 31. Box stock rose 4.5% in Wednesday’s regular session, to