3 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Does Anything Apple Announces at WWDC Really Matter?
Does Anything Apple Announces at WWDC Really Matter?
Market Foolery comes to your screen — and Mark Reeth and analysts Jason Moser and Michael Olsen jump into Apple’s latest news from the WWDC.
3 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Is the Dry Bulk Shipping Market on the Brink of a Rally? Diana Shipping Thinks So
Is the Dry Bulk Shipping Market on the Brink of a Rally? Diana Shipping Thinks So
Diana Shipping sees shipping rates moving higher in the months ahead — is there really a bull shipping market around the corner?
3 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The size of new homes is ballooning
The size of new homes is ballooning
Families across the country are demanding bigger and bigger homes, undaunted by the prospect of fillings rooms with furniture and generations of soon-to-be-born dust bunnies.
3 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Icahn bought $51 million in Fannie, Freddie shares in March
Icahn bought $51 million in Fannie, Freddie shares in March
Activist investor Carl Icahn acquired about $51 million in the common shares of mortgage financiers Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) from mutual fund manager Fairholme Funds Inc in March, a court filing showed on Tuesday. Icahn, a billionaire investor known for taking big stakes in companies and pushing for management change, bought 6.8 million common shares of Fannie Mae and 5.7 million common shares of Freddie Mac from Fairholme, according to the filing with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington.
3 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Apple’s Touch ID could spur digital wallet adoption
Apple’s Touch ID could spur digital wallet adoption
Remember, Apple has a database of nearly 1 billion credit cards already on file.
3 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How video games eclipsed movies and music
How video games eclipsed movies and music
Video games are serious business…and they’re cutthroat. In the beginning of the 1990s Nintendo owned nearly 90% of the video game industry, but within just a few years they found their market share cut in half by Sega—a few years later Sega would be all but dead in the water. Blake Harris chronicled the surprisingly competitive world of the video and arcade game industry in his new book, Console Wars.
3 June, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Hedge-fund world’s one-man wealth machine
Hedge-fund world’s one-man wealth machine
The hedge-fund manager, David Abrams, has personally become a billionaire, and earned billions more for his wealthy investors, over the past five years running what is effectively a one-man shop, according to company and investor documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people who have worked with him. His firm, Abrams Capital Management LP, manages nearly $8 billion across three funds and is discussing raising money for a fourth fund that could help push its assets past $10 billion.