Short sellers -- investors who bet that specific stocks will go down in the near-term -- aren't always right. But when they do make the right call on a stock, they tend to really nail it.
Lululemon's pricey yoga pants and stock have been the hot ticket items to have, but that opinion is beginning to sour.
The weakness in European stocks, thanks to fears of a Greek bond default, transferred to the U.S. stock market on Friday. All major indexes are trading near their lows for the week.
The online coupon market has been exploding in the last year or so. Just look at some of the startups offering this service: Groupon, LivingSocial, Scoutmob, OpenTable, zozi, SCVNGR LevelUp, viagogo, Google Offers and many others.
Hardly a day goes by without new estimates of what popular privately held online companies may be worth. Facebook at $75 billion? Groupon with a value of $25 billion? Nearly $10 billion apiece for Zynga and Twitter? It's tough to not look at these "guess-timates" and proclaim that there is a huge bubble in the making in the social startup arena.
Popular restaurant recommendation app Urbanspoon has just launched a brand new version of its app, complete with a full redesign and the ability to rate and upload photos of your dishes.
In these economically challenging times, consumers are actively on the hunt for deals. And coupon clippers are hungrily turning toward the Web for savings while dining.
If you're looking for signs that the market and economy are slowly returning to normal, it is somewhat encouraging that demand for new stocks is finally perking up again.
Two successful venture capital-backed initial public offerings in as many days have created a buzz that the IPO market is opening up.
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