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• Teavana Acquisition – Who Knew?
  ivanhoff, November 14th, 2012 at 7:32 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Tea is the new coffee. Or at least this is the bet Starbucks ($SBUX) is making by acquiring the tea joint for [...]

• Stocktoberfest Challenge – Buffett Edition
  ivanhoff, October 8th, 2012 at 8:14 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Stocktoberfest is only three weeks away and no, Warren Buffett is not coming this year, but nevertheless it will be an unforgettable [...]

• Stocktober Challenge of the Day – Facebook Edition
  ivanhoff, October 4th, 2012 at 4:06 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits October is a time, when people from around the world get together to drink stocks and talk beer or it might have [...]

• Initial Reactions to LinkedIn’s Earnings Report
  ivanhoff, August 2nd, 2012 at 5:47 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits LinkedIn Earnings – a lot of noise for nothing. It seems that market has already discounted the negative sentiment surrounding the social [...]

• Zynga Misses Earnings Estimates. Facebook Drops in Sympathy
  ivanhoff, July 25th, 2012 at 6:11 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Zynga’s market cap was slashed by more than one third in after-hours trading as the social gaming company missed earnings estimates by [...]

• Google Is Edging Higher In Anticipation of Earnings Tonight
  ivanhoff, July 19th, 2012 at 2:04 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits $GOOG is the second most mentioned technology ticker on Thursday in expectations of its latest earnings report later today. Its stock has [...]

• Facebook and Zynga Under Pressure
  ivanhoff, July 17th, 2012 at 1:21 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Social media stocks $FB and $ZNGA continue to lose ground as their earnings reports and latest lockup expiration approach. $ZNGA is down [...]

• Major Divergences in the Grocery Stores Industry
  ivanhoff, July 12th, 2012 at 2:12 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Grocery stores are the top trending industry on StockTwits today after Supervalue cut its dividend and reported much lower than expected earnings. [...]

• Earnings Warning from Cummins, Inc Sours Market Sentiment
  ivanhoff, July 10th, 2012 at 3:13 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Another earnings warning led to widespread selling. This time, it came from highly sensitive to the economic cycle engine maker Cummins, Inc. [...]

• Jamba and Leapfrog Enterprises with 600% Increase in Weekly Social Activity
  ivanhoff, July 9th, 2012 at 1:31 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Social volume tends to spike when there is an unusual price activity in the underlying stock. The direction of the price move [...]