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Twitter Needs To Prove Turnaround With Q4 Earnings

Twitter (TWTR) must deliver on its promise to elevate its core business, reduce barriers that are keeping users at bay and roll out new services and apps, say analysts, ahead of the microblog’s Q4 earnings after the close Thursday. The company laid out an action plan in November during a presentation to analysts, wrote Cowen & Co. analyst John Blackledge in a January industry report: “Twitter management succeeded in presenting a host of specific

Amazon sees Netflix’s Adam Sandler, raises with Woody Allen

Amazon (AMZN) and Netflix (NFLX) are locked in an escalating battle to secure brand-name celebrities to create original shows that will attract viewers to their streaming video services. On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it has signed Woody Allen to write and direct his first television series. The half-hour series, currently called “Untitled Woody Allen Project,” will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video. While the show doesn’t have an official title, snarky commenters on Twitter (TWTR) were quick to write their own titles, based on past Allen controversies like marrying his stepdaughter Soon-Yi Previn. (Suggested titles included: “How I Met Your Mother My Daughter,” “The Courtship of Mia’s Daughter” and “It’s Always Soon-Yi in Philadelphia.”) Recruiting Allen signals Amazon’s (AMZN) willingness to push the creative envelope, the New York Times reported. Just two days ago, Amazon’s original series “Transparent,” a dark comedy about a family in which the father comes out…

These 3 Cybersecurity Stocks Are Outperforming Market

Data security is a top priority for consumers, businesses and government in the wake of a series of cyberattacks. The threat came into sharper focus Monday after the Twitter (TWTR) and YouTube sites of the U.S. Central Command were compromised with messages that claimed to be from Islamic State. CentCom’s main area of responsibility is military actions in the Middle East including Iraq, Syria and Iran. The agency said both feeds were quickly