Verizon Gears Up For Powerful Answers Awards 2015

Verizon Communication is all set to host the Powerful Answers Award program from the year 2015

In the most recent Verizon stock news, it was seen that the company has been working seriously towards growing its innovation department and towards offering deals and packages that adhere to the policy of the society in accordance. The company was recently seen making an announcement in which it stated that the wireless providers are now taking in suggestions and ideas regarding its Powerful Answers Awards program scheduled to happen in 2015.

This program of Verizon has been taking place for the past two years and this year will mark the third time of such an award program to take within the company. In this award program, the company invites experts, developers and business initiators for a competition worth $6 million with different cash prizes. Apart from that, the wireless company provides a special platform to the people from the industry to incorporate their ideas and suggestions into creating software solutions more easily and efficiently.

Verizon Communications is the largest wireless provider in the United States of America and the company is planning to announce the quarterly earnings report for FY15 in the middle of April. As for the analysts, the expected earnings per share for the quarter are going to be $0.95.

According to Verizon’s stock price today, it was recorded that the company has been facing huge blows in the financial market as the share price that the company is trading on is around 9.77% lower than its 52 week high estimations and its only 7.39% higher than its 52 week low estimated price. The stock of the company is expected to trade between the two ends of $45.09 to $53.66. The price to earnings ratio that was recorded on the stock index by the company came around at 20.01 whereas the estimated P/E by the S&P 500 was disclosed at 18.51.

Currently, Verizon wireless company has a market value amounted up to $201.2 billion. In the last trading session faced by the company on the stock index, it was reported that the stock price of the firm fell to the share price of $48.42. The 50 day average of the moving stock has been estimated at $49.02 while, on the other hand, the 200 day average of the stock has come around at $48.7.

According to the analyst who have covered the stock of the company, it was disclosed that around eighteen analysts firms rated the stock of the company with a ‘buy’ rating whereas thirteen equity firms were seen to have given a ‘hold’ rating to the stock of the firm.

Microsoft Upgrades XBox With Voice Messages

The tech giant has plans to update Xbox One with voice messages and new chat options by the end of April

The most popular device among the young people, the Xbox is all set to be upgraded by the Microsoft Corporation for its update scheduled for April 2015. According to the latest technological news, the tech giant was recently seen talking about experimenting with updating the device with voice messages and chat options that have excited the users to no extent. These are some of the features that the users of the gaming device have been looking towards since the first time they got their hands on the product. For the company to have finally come up with such options for the upgraded version of the gaming device, it has not come as a surprise to the tech analysts.

The update on the Xbox will include the addition of voice messaging service and will also allow a platform where a group of users will be able to entertain a group chat. These messages will be easily designed to transfer from Xbox 360 to Xbox One which means that all the Xbox users will be granted permission to use the special offering of the company.

These voice messages are needed by the gamers at the time they are engrossed in a game during which it becomes quite difficult for them to type a message to their partners in games. Through this voice message service, they will easily record a message which will then be sent over to the other party on the server. This new update will give gaming a whole new experience and the users will be able to enjoy playing games even more than before.

With the help of these additional offerings by Microsoft, the users using the Xbox are allowed to enjoy the actual feel of gaming without any interruption during the extraordinary experience. The tech giant has also made a much-anticipated change in the Xbox in which the users will be able to take a preview of their games as well.

Tech analysts have predicted that Microsoft Corporation might have to face some issues before finally releasing the chat feature on the Xbox as there are some NAT settings that need to be taken into consideration before carrying out any plans. The software giant has decided to overcome all the problems related to technology in the upcoming update that it has decided to make in April.

As for when the Microsoft update is actually going to get launched in April, it has not yet been finalized or announced by the officials. Analysts believe that if Bill Gates’ company is taking time to launch the update, then it is probable that they are working hard to produce great results.

Eli Lilly and Co. Beats Earnings, Misses On Revenues

Eli Lilly and Co reports earnings for Q4FY14, misses on revenues as patents for its prominent drugs expire and a stronger dollar being the culprit.

Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE: LLY) published its final quarter earnings for the fiscal year 2014. Indiana based pharmaceutical company reported earnings of 75 cents beating Street speculations by two cents. The company reported 74 cents in the same quarter last year.

However, revenues were less than impressive at $5.12 billion missing analyst speculations by $80 million, analysts had expected revenues to be at the $5.2 billion mark. Registering a Year-on-Year decline of almost 12% from the previous year when Lilly reported revenues of $5.80 billion.

The drug maker cites fluctuating foreign -exchange to stress its sensitive revenues figures; a stronger dollar is making Lilly’s drugs less economical for international buyers. Lilly adjusted its outlook on the full year’s revenue by scaling back from a $20.3 billion to $20.8 billion range to a range of $19.5 billion to $20 billion; the company actually reported $19.61 billion in full year’s revenue by observing a negative YoY change of 15%.

Another factor leading to bleak revenues is as its prominent drugs see expiring patents which eventually affect the bottom line. Lilly saw revenues slide on the back of patent expiration of Evista and Cymbalta by 74% and 58% respectively.

In turn the drug maker has resorted to widening its research and development to work with new drugs, it was reported that the drug maker has agreed to work in partnership with Merck Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co (NYSE: BMY) to develop immunotherapy drugs.

Investor sentiment is definitely bullish as share prices are on the green, as of 12:11 PM EST shares are traded at $72.45 per share.

The pharmaceutical manufacturing and developing company basically deals in two segments of the products which they discover, create and distribute. The two segments of health which they cater are animals and humans. The Company distributes and manufactures its products through the facilities that are being provided to them in the United States, along with 12 other countries. The company's animal health business gets operated through the pharma company's Elanco division, which helps in its development, manufacturing and market products. The products, medicines or drugs which the company creates, caters both; food animals as well as companion animals.

Earnings for the first quarter, fiscal year 2015 are expected to be released on the 23rd April 2015. The pharmaceutical company closed up at $70.84 on the stock market as of on March 17th.

Analysts At Wunderlich Have High Expectations From Chesapeake

Wunderlich analysts have upgraded their ratings on the energy company's shares and granted a 'buy' rating on the stock

Chesapeake Energy Corporation has been under the spell of bears for quite some time now, keeping in mind the falling prices of oil in the oil industry on a global level. The oil company has even gone forward to cut down its capital expenditures which were announced in a recent press release held by the company. According to data available, it was seen that this company was not the only company of its kind to have made its expenditures lesser than before because the dip in crude oil prices has affected all the companies globally. Re-adjustment of expenses is a factor that all the companies of this industry need to keep an eye on.

On an average, Chesapeake has been receiving negative comments and ratings from almost all the firms who have been covering the stock of the company. However, one equity firm feels different from the stock of the energy company. Wunderlich has analysts who have covered the company’s stock very closely and have suggested a ‘buy’ rating to it. The price target that has been set by the analysts has come around to $24. This has surprised many other analysts as the oil drilling company has only been receiving negative ratings lately. The positivity that has been shown by the analysis shows that they have a strong belief that the company will be soon be reporting strong sales with the share price soaring higher than expectations.

The fact that Chesapeake has lowered its costs and expenses is one of the reasons why analyst firms seem to be so positive about the increment in the profits of the company.

The oil company has so far not managed to raise its share price by cutting off on the expenditures. Considering this fact, the analysts declared that this is going to work in the company’s favor as this way the company will make its base stronger than before.

The fact that the energy company thought of lowering expenditures has also been taken as a positive sign. The downturn that the oil industry has been thrown into has driven all the oil companies to take measures that would save their companies from loss. Similarly, the steps that the oil and gas company has taken to face this difficult time have been approved by analysts.

Chesapeake Energy has successfully cut off its expenses of $500 billion to only $3.5 billion now. These changes have been made for the current fiscal year of 2015. Previously, the expenses of 2014 were recorded at a price of $6.62 billion.

BlackBerry Stocks Are Likely To Fall

BlackBerry stocks have not done quite well in Q4

BlackBerry Ltd. Is a popular name in the smartphone market that was once the pioneer seller in terms of its smartphones and other products and services. The company’s BlackBerry Messaging Service (BBM) was an imminent success where the corporate sector soon switched their preference to the company and many organizations made sure that their employees had one of these magnificent gadgets.

However, the company could not soon keep pace with the evolving demands of customers and many users then diverted to iOS and Android operating system. Because of this change, the demand of BBRY smartphones declined to a great extent and soon the company lost its market completely.

BlackBerry stocks at that time suffered to a great extent but then the company started to draft ways for revival that could also not do much good for them.

Few months ago, the company again showed signs of improvement and their strategy was changing according to the need of time and many analysts expected that BlackBerry stock price will get better in the times to come. The turnaround strategy for them has not worked well and its smartphone market has again declined. However, skeptics believe that the worst is yet to come.

BlackBerry recently posted the results of its Q4 on March 26, FY14. According to this report, the company has made the least revenue in this quarter after 9 years which is a dreadful start to their turnaround. Mark Sue, analyst at RBC considers it to be a warning to this company.

When Apple started to launch its flagship products in the year 2007, the company could not keep pace that resulted in their turmoil. The new devices by the company were far more modern, up to date and served the purpose. This however created a vacuum for BlackBerry thus they couldn’t pave their way to redemption.

The company then realized that they might not be suitable for the elite markets so they started to divert their focus on emerging markets. This strategy was initially very successful as they received a welcoming response from the developing countries but, in the long run, this could also not cope up with their losses.

Hence, at this point in time BlackBerry after launching several new products like SecuTablet is still on the verge of failure. This is an alarming state of the company who has no other option left that can help them sale across the shore.

If they do not take any positive step now then the entire journey might turn out to be disastrous for them.

Tesla To Roll Out Autonomous Cars Ahead Of Others

Tesla is all set to unveil its autonomous car in the next three months

All other companies like Nissan, Audi etc. which are a pioneer in the automotive sector are trying their best to come up with autonomous cars in which will make their way in a few years time. However, Tesla Motors is far above everybody present on the list of autonomous car makers since they are likely to launch driverless cars in a matter of three months.

According to the chief executive officer of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk stated that the latest software update for Model S is likely to make its way in just a matter of 90 days.

The car is said to have an auto steering ability because of which they will be able to drive themselves on highways. Tesla does not really want to complicate the mechanism at this stage. Therefore, the car will have the potential to run at a predefined speed within a hurdle free lane.

According to reports, these cars are said to be equipped with radars and sonar to make it possible. Moreover, all of these systems will be linked to a GPS system. The company only needs a single software that can make it all happen which is said to be on its way.

Tesla Motors is going pretty optimistic about this venture. However, when asked experts about autonomous cars being legal, they were extremely doubtful about this project.

Tesla at this stage has not really clarified what facilities this car can offer. We only know that the car can drive on its own on highways. However, rest of the abilities still remains unclear.

According to Musk previous report in 2014: “Model S will be able to steer to stay within a lane, change lanes with the simple tap of a turn signal, and manage speed by reading road signs and using active, traffic aware cruise control.”

However, the CEO recently stated: “there’s certainly an expectation that when autopilot on the Model S is enabled, that you’re paying attention.”

Tesla autonomous car is a massive breakthrough in a fairly short period of time, but the issue is that one cannot really predict what will be the result of this venture. New technologies take more time to penetrate among the masses.

Hence in a nutshell, Tesla Motors is taking a fairly bold move to introduce this technology ahead of others since they don’t really know what is in store for them. Moreover, the company might also have to deal with the court of law since it is still not clear whether this technology actually qualifies as legal.

Google Invests $16.8 million For Lobbying At White House

Google organized 230 meetings at the White House investing $16.8 million

Google Inc (GOOG) the search engine has been trying its best to make its way to White House and thus for the same reason has invested $16.8 million to lobby with the authorities.

The Wall Street Journal, which is a popular commodity in terms of quality and authentic content has recently published a report that talks about the company’s reach within the governmental bodies in United States.

According to the report, it has been estimated that officials and executive from Google have visited the White House almost 230 times from the time President Barack Obama has been appointed as the President of USA. This indicates that the company has reached the secretariat every week after his deployment. This Google news has created immense disruption.

This is a massive breakthrough for the company since Comcast who also tried to lobby in White House only succeeded to meet the President only 20 times.

The meeting started when highly sensitive meetings were arranged by the Federal Trade Commission. The investigation was about GOOG being involved in antitrust activities such as unfair and monopolistic search practice mechanism.

The co-founder of Google met the FTC so that they could come to a settlement. Apart from that, Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt was successful in becoming the senior advisor to the President of United States regarding the investigations were being done.

A spokesperson belonging to FTC, Justin Cole told the Wall Street Journal told the public that the FTC is basically an independent commodity that does not really have any relation to Google’s affiliation with the White House. So the results of the investigation will not be under the influence of the government whatsoever.

Ironically, Google was not accused by the authority for being involved in any such activity but has decided itself to change its actions so that no inconvenience is caused whatsoever.

Google’s visit at the White House is extremely symbolic in nature and many people find it extremely suspicious for the company to be involved in meetings at the time it was accused. The spokeswomen of Google, Niki Christoff stated:

“We think it is important to have a strong voice in the debate and help policy makers understand our business and the work we do to keep the Internet open, to build great products, and to fuel economic growth.”

Many critics are not willing to go accept Google’s justification of the matter and believe that the company has a lot more to hide and disguise. Organizing meetings at such a stage when it has been accused by an law enforcing agency points a completely different story to many minds.

GoPro's CEO Joins EBay

Tony Bates, who is the CEO of GoPro, has joined eBay as one of the directors on the board

Currently, the most talked about GoPro news is that the CEO of the company, Tony Bates, has decided to join eBay Inc. Bates has been given a position on the board of directors of the company and the CEO of eBay believes that this new addition to the company can work in ways for betterment of both the firms. The camera making company’s CEO been appointed in the new company as a director and will be working independently.

On Monday, 23rd March 2015, it was announced by the online shopping company that the head of the camera makers will be working with them. Along with this new entry, one more addition has been done to the eBay family in which CEO of American Red Cross; Gail McGovern has joined the company as another director who will be working side by side Bates.

EBay is on the path towards making its service of payments called PayPal into a separate company and for that purpose the company feels it is necessary to take steps that will help the firm reach its near future goals.

In a recent press release regarding GoPro USA,, the CEO of eBay talked about how successful and accomplished both the CEOs of the companies are and how this will work towards the benefit of his company in the upcoming years. He also mentioned that with the help of both of these executives, eBay will become capable of handling two huge companies at the same time.

As for the Bates, it was in the June of 2014 when he was appointed by the President for GoPro as well as a board member for the company. On the other hand, McGovern, who has joined eBay along with Bates, has provided his services as an EVP for AT&T and was also the President of FPI (Fidelity Personal Investments).

Tony Bates has had a bright past behind him as he worked as an EVP for Microsoft’s Business Development department before he was appointed by the President for the Hero camera makers. He has also worked as the CEO of Skype for two years before Microsoft hired him. After the important additions to the eBay family, in a press release it was recorded that Bates was in favor of PayPal being separated from the actual company which started it. He believes that the company needs to separate itself from its payment service plan for it to work in a more advanced way.

This decision has been taken by the company as one of the most influential investors Carl Icahn has been constantly pressurizing the firm for the needed developments.

EcoLab Going Strong Internationally Despite Low Oil Price, Economic Woes

Low oil prices crimping its oil and gas division business but also proves a boon for its overall business in terms of lower material prices

EcoLab Inc (NYSE:ECL) witnessed a stellar year for the past three years. Compared to the last fiscal year in 2013, the company recorded an 8% growth in revenues this year, averaging at 4.5% per year. This is attributed to the company’s successful execution of its business strategy ranging from acquisitions to cost savings, innovation to expansion into new markets. All this is done to ensure that the company does not keep itself fixated to one sector while heavily exposing itself to factors such as sharp currency fluctuations and other macroeconomic problems, such as the slowdown in the Chinese as well as the global economy.

EcoLab has derived most of its revenues from the oil and gas segment. Oil prices last year, during the summer, reached their peak at approximately $115 per barrel, before tumbling down to between $45-55 per barrel today. Apparently, the company had generated its revenue in the last six months of 2014, when oil prices remained at tolerable levels of an average between $70-75 per barrel. The revenue growth from the energy side declined as many oil majors cut back on their capital investments

The business recorded a 25% growth in sales from the energy segment, partly assisted by the acquisitions of Champion Technologies and Nalco. This ensures that the company expands it footprint in the energy-related chemicals sector required by the oil and gas industry. EcoLab’s other business segments, Global Industrial and Global Institutional, have all recorded strong growths from their sides too. The former clocked in a 4% growth to $1.28 billion, thanks to the launch of its 3D TRASAR, whereas the latter reported a 6% growth to $1.18 billion, due to addition of additional portfolio of products.

The future speculations suggest that EcoLab’s revenue sales from the energy segment will suffer due to cutbacks from oil and gas investments. The fall in oil prices will be beneficial for other segments of the company in the form of low material costs. On the financial side, it has an operating cash flow at $1.64 billion against the capital of $788 million, providing enough flexibility to pay dividends to its investors. The company is also on the verge of buying back $1billion worth of shares, resulting in a strong effect on the company’s dividends and share. Overall, from a business and financial point of view, there is no possible threat to the business, especially since its business model is working wonderfully.

Deere and Company Inc. To Continue Feeling The Pinch But Still Expected To Do Well This Year

Lower crop prices and expected interest rate rise likely to hit the company other segments of the company expected to do well to neutralize the effect

This week has been kind to Deere and Company (NYSE:DE).Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway has reportedly purchased more of the company’s shares, and the company has been branded as the most world’s most ethical companies in the world(this is the ninth time that the company has been awarded the title), according to Ethisphere Institute. Despite this positive news though, in which the company traded between $87-89 on hearing the news, the company is still forecasted to report a decline in revenues.So what is the motive behind Warren Buffet purchasing the company’s shares?

Deere and Company operate in two segments: agriculture and construction.The former generates 80% of the company’s sales.That is partly explained by the company operating and being headquartered in the Mid-Western states of Iowa and Illinois,where the agriculture sector there is the strongest, so the company is making itself feel close to the customers.

The agricultural sector is feeling the pinch right now owing to low crop prices though that is expected due to the fact that agriculture is a highly cyclical sector.But the IMF and the United States Department of Agriculture(USDA) forecast that crop prices may not recover till the fourth quarter of this year.Corn prices are expected to fall about 8%, whereas for wheat it is forecasted to fall by 20%.This is as a result of growing crop supplies around the world, significantly reducing margins for farmers to setting aside their budget to purchase agricultural moving equipment to increase production and crop yield.And even if US farmers cut back, prices are still expected to fall.

Another challenge is the inevitable prospect of the U.S starting to raise its interest rates somewhere around June, way ahead of the September forecast that was forecasted several quarters ago.This will certainly boost the cost of goods, making it unaffordable for many farmers to make purchases

To this end, Deere and Company have expanded into the construction sector and also recently has done the same in the financial sectors. According to information from the last quarter, from the construction and the financial sectors generated 59% of operating income.This will help soften the import cyclical factors affecting the sales of agricultural equipment,which means that even if its sales drop, the construction and the financial sectors can kick in to shoulder the burden of improving the company’s operating income and cash flow.

Overall,patient investors ,who don’t simply look at the performance of one year,may be excercising his investments for the long run,given that Deere and Company has a good track record in terms of compounded earnings-per-share at 12.7% a year and dividends per share at 15.4% a year.That explains why Warren Buffet has purchased 5% of shares by looking at the bigger picture.

GoPro Stocks Destined To Gain Traction

GoPro stocks decline amid competition with Xiaomi

GoPro Inc is an extremely popular name when it comes to extreme sports. Their action cameras are used for several purposes when it comes to recording extreme sports. The company in a short span of time has succeeded in makings its market fairly extensive.

The company is all set to grow and for the same reason it is experimenting with several techniques that can help them to sale swiftly offshore. Gopro has come up with several top-notch imaging technologies that are expected to make the image quality better.

However, the GoPro stocks have not done quite well where they have dropped by 38 percent in a year to date basis. The company has experienced a massive decline where in October their stock worth $94 but it now stands at $40. His massive decline in the stock price has resulted in disruption. Many investors are still baffled; they do not know whether to sell these stocks or hold onto them.

Despite this, the popularity of GoPro cameras is not declining. Many individuals who love adventure consider this product as a must have. This has what led the hopes still alive.

The problem which GoPro is not the launch of Xiaomi Yi. Initially, GoPro was the only company that dealt with action cameras. No other company was designing such cameras that allowed them to experiment and engage their audience. However, Xiaomi decided to give a tough time to the former by coming up with a similar product. Many skeptics considered it to be the end of the era of GoPro since Xiaomi was offering the same product at almost half the price.

Ironically, people do not realize that Xiaomi is only going to launch this product in China. Thus this will not really cause much of a problem for GoPro. Moreover, many people who got the opportunity to get their hands on Yi found it a mere waste of money and energy. They claimed that the device was only good when it came to specs. However, in reality it looks like an extremely useless toy which is not even close to GoPro’s Hero line.

GoPro does not need to worry about Xiaomi since it is still the market dominator. The company’s prime agenda shows their interest in innovation. They have always tried to come up with best services whatsoever.

The company is certainly experiencing a tough time due to the decline in their stock price. However, this is a bad patch which will get better with time. GoPro investors should not give up on hope and wait.

Toyota Motors to Attain Global Popularity at Olympics 2020

Toyota Motor Corp (NYSE:TM)  has signed a deal with Olympics in which the company will get a good chance to promote the company at the massive sports event to be held in 2020

According to the most recent news, Toyota Motors is expected to obtain open publicity in 2020 at the Olympics in which the company will get a chance to showcase its car that is powered by hydrogen. The company will be getting a golden chance to promote its automobiles at the biggest event of the year in which the main focus will be on the hydro fueled cars of the company. Other than that, the Japanese automakers will also be promoting other cars of their company. The main star of the event will be the Toyota Hybrid cars as it is relatively a new industry and for the purpose of promotion, a step like this is needed to be taken.

Toyota Motors has signed a deal with the concerned authorities of the worldwide Olympics and according to a news report by Associated Press, it has been confirmed that the company has gotten the permission to showcase their cars in the next big event planned to take place in five years.

The Japanese company is getting a chance to make such promotional plans as this time around the Olympics will be held in Japan in the capital of the state, Tokyo. The company will be one of the biggest sponsors of the event as a deal valued up to $1 billion has been signed which is a part of the marketing program of the biggest sports event in the world.

The deal between the company and the event organizers is that the company will be allowed to market its products for eight long years using the traditional rings of the Olympics. This time period will start from the year 2017 and end in 2024. The right to use the Olympic theme for promotional activities related to the marketing of the cars made by the Japanese company will be given to the company according to the TOP program of sponsorship.

Toyota Motors has signed this deal in which the company will be giving back around $835 million for a sponsorship plan that gives such a golden chance to the company to promote their products. According to reports by the Japanese media channels, it says that this deal has been signed for a really high amount as compared to the previous deals of this kind of sponsorship plan.

Other gaming events which are somehow interlinked which the Olympics will also be available for the Toyota Company to carry on their promotional programs as this is something that was also decided in the deal that the company signed.

Google To Introduce 'Age Rating' For Android Based Apps

Google upgrades its app store where content will be scrutinized on the basis of 'age ratings.'

Google Inc, the search engine giant has taken a long leap after Apple Inc age rating scheme. Google Play, the app store on Google 's Android has finally decided to come with age-based rating for the content of apps. This will allow Google to pave a safer platform where every app would have to go through screening by experts at Google's android app store to ensure they are age appropriate and safe.

The age-based rating will be applicable to games and apps for Android reported the company through a blog post. However, the company has not developed its own platform for scrutiny but will use the system used globally to scrutinize content. For all apps that target the US market, the format to be followed will be Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) that is generally used by the gaming sector.

This does not end here, but Google has also decided to deploy a team of individual with adequate expertise to evaluate the content of the app and then allow or reject them from the app store. If the apps cohere to the policies of the developers they will be permitted on Google’s Play store.

Developers need to create content that does not have explicit or shady material, should not promote or propagate violence, ill speech, and hazardous products, allow gambling, propagate spam or abuse intellectual property whatsoever.

This move allows users to have access to the type of content which can be accessed on the basis of age parameters and also allow guardians to keep a check on the type of content their adolescents interact with. This gives them more authority and ensures a safer platform.

However, Google’s initiate deserves applause but this comes quite late. Since the time, Apple launched its App store; it has always been making sure to tweak apps before they are published. The procedure can take several weeks but ensures that the type of content being promoted on their platform is safe and effective. Since 2008 Apple’s App store has evolved to a great extent but still it reviews all the apps before granting permission.

On the other hand, Google Inc (GOOG) promises to make the process seamless where developers will not have to wait much. The company has also published a page which developers can study to avoid the delay or banning of their apps.

"Developers now have more insight into why apps are rejected or suspended, and they can easily fix and resubmit their apps for minor policy violations," Google stated further.

Hence, Google should have come up with this initiate earlier but better late than never.

Sears Holdings Shares Sold By Major Shareholder

Shares of Sears Holdings were sold by major shareholder Bruce Berkowitz in which he sold 41,700 shares valued up to $1,522,004.

In the most recent trading session, that the multinational company went through, Sears Holdings recorded the sale of 41,200 shares by one of the biggest shareholders of the company called Bruce Berkowitz. This transaction was recorded on Monday, 16th March 2015 in stock chart of the company in which Berkowitz was seen to sell shares at a price of $37.67 at an average. The transaction that was made resulted in the generation of $1,552,004. After the transaction was successfully carried out by the shareholder, he then became the owner of 71,700 shares of the company. His share in the company is valued at $2,700,939. This transaction has been submitted to the SEC as shareholders that own more than 10% of the companies are bound to report to the Securities Exchange Commission regarding any kind of trade that they undergo within the company’s stock index.

On Monday, 16th March 2015, Sears Holdings stock price was seen to experience a rise in trade by 0.68% which helped the share price reach $38.47. On the same trading session, the shares of the company have an average volume of 465,947 shares. The multinational company’s one-year high has been recorded at a price of $48.25 whereas, on the other hand, the one-year low of the company has been recorded at $22.45. Sear Holdings has a total market value which has been recorded by the stock exchange at $4.10 billion.

The stock quote of the Hoffman-based company disclosed that the earnings for the last quarter of 2014 were presented on Thursday, 26th February 2015 in which the company was seen to record earnings per share at $1.50. The financial analysts previously predicted that the company will report an EPS of $1.89, but a decline in the quarterly results was seen by the company. On the other hand, the company managed to raise revenue of $8.10 billion in the same quarter which was also $0.20 billion less than the estimated earnings.

However, the company witnessed an increase in quarterly earnings on a year-over-year basis as in the fourth quarter of 2013; Sears had recorded an EPS of $1.13. Nevertheless, the company’s earnings for the quarter saw a decline by 23.5% as compared to the same quarter earnings of 2013.

For the current year, analysts have predicted that Sears Holdings will post even lower EPS than the previous two years. The guidance that has been provided for the current financial year is that the company will only manage to make $9.96 EPS, which is much lower than what the company has been previously generating since it was founded.

Facebook’s COO Declared the Company to be Under-Construction

In recent press conference held by Morgan Stanley for Media, Telecom and Technology, Facebook Inc was seen to be quite active with the questions and answers session in which the company’s COO Sheryl Sandberg answered many questions regarding the company’s current and future plans and explained how people have been observed to be spending more time on the print media like newspapers and magazines than on the social networking platform which shows that the website still has a lot of chances to grow more than it already has. This statement of the COO of the social networking site surprised many analysts as the fact that the company is still expecting to grow seems quite quaint.
On the other hand, analysts have taken this statement of Sandberg into consideration and have different opinions about it. According to recent news, Facebook is already on the way to create more space for them in the ad industry by growing bigger and better and collecting more cash by ad revenue generation than it already is obtaining.

Sandberg also explained how people are observed to be using print media more than social media which has made Facebook realize how much more audience of the newspapers and other print media it could gather in the next few years. Where the US consumers are spending only $0.07 on the social networking sites, they have been observed to be spending $0.80 on the print media coverage.
The analysts also gathered after the press release that Facebook (FB) is planning to grow more in the mobile ad industry which will help the company to generate revenue in a more efficient manner.
In a press release by Mark Zuckerberg who is the CEO of the social networking site, he declared that on an average, a user in the United States spends around 40 minutes on Facebook every day. On the other hand, a lot of time of the users is also spent on Instagram which is another app collectively owned by Zuckerberg. This new app which was recently taken over by the social media company has only attracted around 21% of the user-base of Facebook. As Zuckerberg said in the press conference held to announce the quarterly earnings for the last quarter of 2014, an average user of the app spends only around 21 minutes on the app per day.
Facebook has been experiencing more audience on the other apps that the company has recently acquired which has partly distracted some of the audience from the social giant’s website.

Hasbro's Chairman Verrecchia to Retire In May This Year

The long-serving veteran of the toy company, Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) Chairman Alfred Verrecchia is set to retire in May this year. Earlier this week, the company also announced that its serving chief executive Brian Goldner will be promoted to chairman of the board position.

Independent Chairman of the Board, Mr. Verrecchia has been a part of the industry giant, Hasbro, for nearly 50 years and served as chairman for almost seven years. Mr. Verrecchia is 72-year-old.

Jack M. Greenberg, Mr. Michael W.O. Garrett, Mr. John (Jack) M. Connors Jr. and Mr. Frank J. Biondi Jr. are amongst other board members set to retire in May at the company’s annual meeting.

Another worthy change in the top management is of Basil Anderson who is currently a member of the board serving as a non-management director at Hasbro. He is scheduled to take over the newly created position of lead independent director.

Mr. Anderson will assume the new position in May after the annual general meeting. The company is reported to have dubbed this appointment as a step forward to better corporate governance.

In recent times, the Rhode Island-based toy company, Hasbro, has seen successful, as it won the licensing bid for Walt Disney Co’s (NYSE:DIS) “Frozen” movie, which has been a hit at the box office. It was recently reported that Hasbro has presented Mattel, Inc (NASDAQ:MAT) with a challenge over its sale of the most iconic Barbie doll.

Hasbro also holds licenses to sell Marvel and Transformer toys, which have helped drive its earnings by 43% in the quarter ended September 2014.

Brian Goldner, who has been chosen to take the place of the 72 year old chairman, has been serving the toy making company since 2000. By the time he joined Hasbro, the company had gone through a job cut off in which the firm cut around 5000 jobs due to the decline in the shares in the stock market. However, two years later the company gradually improved its position in the stock market. It was in 2006 when Goldner was given a promotion to the position of the CEO of the company after which he managed to take the company to new heights and successfully carried out creating toys after the famous movie series called Transformers. His role as the company’s CEO elevated the company’s position to such an extent that the board of directors felt that he deserves the position of the chairman of the company.

Microsoft Corporation Witnesses a Drop in Share Price

Microsoft Corporation has experienced an imminent fall in the share price by a massive 3.4% in the price of the shares in the past one week. For the past four weeks at the trading house, the company’s loss has been recorded at 0.12%. The shares of the company have been observed by the financial analysts to be going forward at a negative pace as the performance of the company at the S&P 500 as the company has been given a rating of ‘underperform’ as the company has been not performing up to the mark on the stock index and a loss of 1.85% on the stock has been faced by company recently.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has performed under expectations of the analysts on the index and a downfall of 0.88% has been recorded. Analysts have also warned the investors and traders to be warned about the fluctuation that the share price has been facing lately and have been advised to trade when the shares gain more value.

The bears in the stock market seemed to have won the war with the bulls as the company showed signs of an imminent downfall in the most recent trading session. The pressure that the bears of the company faced in selling the shares of the company overcame them and they could not keep a control on the share price and by the end of the trading session it came around at 1.739%. At the start of the trading session, the share price opened up at a value of $43.00. The price of the shares ended up in a negative by settling at a price of $42.36 which was marked at the lowest price of the day’s trading.

The volume of the shares that was disclosed by the end of the shares was estimated by the analysts at 36,248,785 shares. In the previous trading session that the company faced at the stock index, the share price was seen to have closed at a value $43.11.

The 52-week high of the stock of the software making company was reported to be $50.045 and the 52 week that was recorded by the stock analysts at $37.50.

As for the short interest of the company, Microsoft Corp was observed to be noting the change in the short interest at 1.05% for the past four weeks. In the past three weeks, the percentage change that was recorded in the short interest department was 29.98%

Chesapeake Experience Considerable Inflow of Money

The shares of Chesapeake Energy Corporation have been experiencing an up and down status for some time now. In the last trading session, tut flow hat the company went through, the shares of the firm saw a steep decline with a loss of 0.35 points or 1.69%. The shares were last seen to be traded at $20.4 before the trading counter closed down.

According to the trading report that was released after the session ended, the company experienced an inflow of $35.85 million in upticks and the outflow of money was recorded at $30.98 million in downticks. The net flow of the money at the counter was reported to be $4.87 million. The fluctuating nature of the share price was recorded at a ratio of 1.16.

As for the block trade data, the company received positive earnings. The inflow of money from the block shares was recorded at $8.31 million wheroutflowoof money was reported at $3.21 million, hence the up and down ratio was recorded at 2.66. A higher number of up/down ratio is said to be a positive factor for the stock of the company. The total amount that was observed by the counter in the inflow was $5.19 million.

Chesapeake (NYSE: CHK) received severe blows in the stock market. During the trading session of the day, the price went as a low as $20.7 which is noticeably below the opening price of $20.16.

The total number of shares registered on the trading day was 13,515,272. In the previous session, the shares had closed down at a price of $20.75. The 52-week low of the share price of Chesapeake was listed at a price of $16.41 and the 52-week high value of the share was documented at $31.49. The oil field service providing company has a current total market value of $13.50 billion.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) is an oil and natural gas production and exploration company that was founded by Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward in 1986. The company’s headquarters are located in Oklahoma City in the United States of America. It is the second largest oil and gas producer in America and is currently headed by CEO Robert Lawler. The company is engaged in focusing and exploring different sites in the US where oil and natural gas can be found and operates in marketing and drilling, providing many other oil field services all over the country.

Tesla Motors Continues To Establish Itself in China

Tesla Motors has been on a consistent ride towards penetrating itself into the global market and the first stop that the company has decided to make is in China. Tesla’s prior experience with the Chinese market has not worked much for the company, but that has not put it off from the mission of establishing itself in the country. The sales of the electric cars made by the automakers have been r facing a decline from the time it stepped into the auto market in China, something that has completely taken the electric car makers off the guard.

One of the main reasons why the company has failed to make itself popular in the Chinese auto industry is that there no proper resources available for the EV users to recharge their electric cars which have played a huge part in the defamation of the car produced by Tesla. The resources presently available in the country for EV customers are inadequate and have resulted in customers becoming troubled and frustrated. This explains why the EV automakers have failed to create a space for themselves in the Chinese auto industry.

Analysts have suggested that for Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) to make the people of China comfortable with its EVs, the company needs to make sure there are enough resources available for the people to recharge their electric cars without much ado. If that is not done by the company then the analysts have predicted that Chinese investors might pull out their investments in the company’s car.

In a recent press conference, Elon Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla Motors commented on the response of the Chinese audience that his company received and declared that it was not encouraging how the people of China were reacting to the electric cars of the company. This statement, however, was ignorant of the fact that there are not enough fueling stations in the country that will support the electric cars on the road and that the population in China is too massive for any company to cater without having problems.

On the other hand, Tesla Motors owns quite a few energy stations in America where the need of recharging electric batteries is being seen to without many problems.

Tesla is still working towards hitting the Chinese market like it previously planned to do and now it also knows why the sales in the country are not elevating which can work in the company’s favor if the right steps are taken to eradicate the problem of low sales.

Share Price of Chesapeake Plunges

Chesapeake Energy Corp is one of the companies that faced a serious downfall at the stock house on 4th March 2015. The company saw a fall of 4.38% at the end of the trading session on Wednesday, after which many analysts declared the it is better for the shareholders to let go of their company's shares.

On the S&P 500, the company was one of the biggest losing companies which resulted in the company's share price coming around at $15.49 on a volume with totaled at 39.97 million shares.

At the start of the trading session, the stock price opened at a price of $16.26 and the lowest point that it touched throughout the session was $15.32 and the highest came around at $16.34. As for the price per share, the stock faced a dip of $0.71 shares. The average estimated volume of shares of the company is 14.74 million shares whereas the floating shares for the firm have been amounted at 665.04 million shares.

Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) has a 200 day moving average estimated at $23.44 while the 50 day moving average has been estimated at $19.34. All time 52-week high value of the shares has come around at $31.49 and the 52-week low for the company has been disclosed as $16.18.

According to Analysts Ratings Network's report, the company has also been experiencing negative predictions for the current quarter and the present year by the analysts, who have been giving really low guidance on the company's stock value in near future. This is one of the main reasons why the company's share price has faced such a sudden dive in the financial market.

According to analysts, at Zacks, the company has been given a rating of 4 and more weakness is expected to emerge on the share price in near future.

As for other analysts, around six analysts have given a 'hold' rating to the shares of the company, while 7 have given a 'buy' rating. Analysts in general are seen to be agreeing on the fact that the company will be disclosing a weaker share value in a few months time and so they have given a rating of 'hold' to the shares of the firm.

The share price of Chesapeake Energy has seen a plunge of 19.1% in the past four weeks which shows that the company will be facing a difficult time for a little more time before any signs of improvement are shown.