Regression – Syndication

See how much the tech press showers attention on the top five companies: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, while Microsoft gets the cold shoulder.

The dual-screen foldable phone won't be available for awhile (the 2020 holiday season), but you can get the new Surface Earbuds later this year.

For three decades, David Placek's company has been hired by the likes of Intel, Apple, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola to help name hundreds of products and launch corporate rebranding campaigns.

As fires rage in parts of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest, indigenous communities find themselves in danger of being displaced.

First there was Bendgate. Now there is ... Foldgate?

Apple is making movies, TV shows and ... a credit card.

Grab, the most popular ride-hailing app in Southeast Asia, will end 2018 with $3 billion in new funds as it seeks to fend off rivals in a region of more than 600 million people.

What happened

What happened

Over the course of the last year, investors have become increasingly fascinated with the emergence of both cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology that enables the exchange of digital dollars. The ability to securely record transactions has the potential to revolutionize any number of existing industries, and is being explored by a number of big tech companies.

After a run-up that nearly doubled its value two times over, shares of Universal Display (NASDAQ: OLED) have been headed the wrong direction as of late. The culprit is downbeat expectations for 2018 as display manufacturers retool for another organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology push next year. Though things look ugly right now, the company's shares aren't dead.

China is a hotbed of innovation these days.

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) says selling media players is not its end game, but rather part of a strategic play to make it a competitive alternative to other streaming media services. The appearance of the Roku Channel on smart TVs made by Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF) is the first manifestation of this grand design for growth.

It's been more than a year since Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ: SNCR) released earnings results. Investors have had to endure a long wait as the cloud computing specialist has gone through an extended process of restating several years' worth of the company's financials. During that period, the stock has remained depressed, having fallen initially on the news and failing to participate in the boom that has lifted so many of its peers.

Chinese smartphone vendor Huawei has made its aspiration to be the world's leading smartphone vendor by unit shipments quite clear in recent years. The company is currently the third-largest vendor by this metric, behind second-place Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and first-place Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF).

Let's be clear from the outset: there are exactly zero stocks out there you can "set and forget." Since the dawn of the Internet, the pace of change in society has only accelerated, and I don't think that will change anytime soon. As such, no incumbent is 100% safe from disruption.

For the back-to-school shopping season, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is expected to roll out a new processor code-named Whiskey Lake for mainstream notebook computers. Up until now, we've known that Whiskey Lake will be manufactured on some derivative of the company's 14-nanometer technology (since Whiskey Lake is supposed to be a stopgap part while Intel prepares its more advanced Ice Lake chips built using its 10-nanometer+ technology), but the specifics of the chip haven't really been known.

A noted worrywart placed Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) back in its crosshairs last week, turning one of last year's biggest winners into one of last week's biggest losers. Shopify stock tumbled 12.1% last week after a Citron Research piece argued that the dot-com darling is headed for a fall in light of the profile harvesting scandal at Facebook (NASDAQ: FB).

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) reigns supreme atop the U.S. wireless industry, with more than 116 million retail connections. Yet hard-charging contender T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) has upended the industry with its innovative "Un-carrier" promotions and is rapidly gaining share.

It was a rough debut for iQiyi (NASDAQ: IQ) last week. Baidu's (NASDAQ: BIDU) fast-growing video streaming subsidiary went public at $18 on Thursday, and it wasn't pretty. The stock opened at $18.20, far from the opening pop we've see with other hot debutantes, but still a respectable first trade. Things only got worse from there. The shares slid all day, closing at $15.55.

Shares of Tencent (NASDAQOTH: TCEHY) recently stumbled from all-time highs, mainly due to three issues facing the Chinese tech giant.