Taiwan’s technology stocks are expected to recover lost ground this year as their main market the United States shows signs of a recovery, says Mark Matthews, Head of Research Asia, at Bank Julius Baer.
Facebook is widely expected to file for an IPO as early as Wednesday, which could value the company between $75 and $100 billion. But the social networking site isn't available in China, the world's biggest internet market, because of strict censorship laws. Instead, one analyst says that investors are looking to buy Chinese internet stocks which offer similar social networking services to Facebook.
Facebook made its long-awaited filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. It is expected to trade under the ticker symbol "FB."
In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in onerous work environments, with serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems. The NYT reports.
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says web traffic on his search engine, billed as an alternative to Google that doesn't store your private information, surged 33 percent after the NSA news broke. Weinberg discusses the model of his search engine, and how the company makes money.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 6:31 AM ETJohn Silvia, Wells Fargo Securities, and Barbara Marcin, Gabelli Dividend Income Fund, discuss whether investors should reconsider allocating their portfolios as the Fed wraps up its two-day policy meeting.
Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013 | 8:53 AM ETKen Langone, Invemed Associates chairman and president, called Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "lame duck."