Tag Archives: lead tech

Many Tech Gifts For Kids Can Come With A STEM Focus

Tech toys are always a hit with kids. Plenty of tech gifts teach as well as entertain, and are still cool. For this holiday season, here are some gift ideas that emphasize the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math: Kids love music. Earbuds are OK, but over-the-ears headphones usually give better sound. For the younger kids on your gift list, adult headphones are often too large. And most of them let a child listen to music (or

Splunk Guidance Beats; Workday’s Misses

Two up-and-coming enterprise software companies showed divergent paths late Thursday with their guidance, and their stocks responded in kind. Workday (WDAY) gave fiscal Q4 revenue guidance that slightly lagged Wall Street expectations, and stock in the maker of human resources and financial management software was down 5% in after-hours trading, following its earnings release. Data analytics software maker Splunk (SPLK), however, gave fiscal Q4

Would Anti-Netflix Hulu Alliance Invite DOJ Probe?

Federal regulators could launch a probe if Comcast (CMCSA), 21st Century Fox (FOXA) and Walt Disney (DIS) bring in Time Warner (TWX) as a fourth partner in Hulu, especially if the media quartet becomes much more selective in licensing content to Web video streamer Netflix (NFLX). So says Paul Gallant, an analyst at Guggenheim Partners. Gallant notes that the Department of Justice in 2012 reportedly launched an antitrust investigation involving