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Citadel Advisors’ 4Q14 portfolio increased by 3.63% to $82.66 billion from $76.77 billion in 3Q14.

The debt-to-equity ratios of several top tech companies suggest that the broader markets are much more leveraged than tech stocks.

In the past, Microsoft (MSFT) has shown reluctance to support the open source software movement. However, it seems the company has changed its strategy.

Average revenue per user (or ARPU) is another important metric for Internet companies. It provides an idea of how well a company can monetize its user base.

We’ll look at Yahoo’s search market business. In the third quarter, Yahoo (YHOO) generated 41% of its revenue from the search advertising business.

The average selling price (or ASP) for BlackBerry (BBRY) smartphones continues to decline. Last quarter, the ASP declined from $201 in fiscal 2Q15 to $182.

Display advertising is a type of online advertising that appears next to content on websites, instant messaging (or IM) applications, and email.

Technology and content costs include expenses incurred on new product development, data centers, and licensing costs associated with music and videos.

Salesforce1 is a cloud-based platform that serves as a foundation for building connected apps that link to mobile devices, wearables, and big data.

The NASDAQ’s upstart image and all-electronic trading platform have attracted more technology-based companies. Many of these companies didn’t qualify to list on the NYSE when they originally went public.

Variety first reported that Google (GOOG)(GOOGL) reached a preliminary agreement to buy Twitch for $1 billion. Then Business Insider reported that Yahoo (YHOO) had also made an offer to buy Twitch.

Microsoft Azure might not be a leader, but it is expanding very fast in terms of applications and geography. Its hybrid cloud approach offers some hope regarding its future in the cloud space.

Google and Yahoo broke large databases and distributed them across multiple servers, that led to distributed databases—which then founded advanced databases like NoSQL and new processing platforms like Hadoop.

The volume and velocity of business data has changed dramatically in the last couple of years—it’s skyrocketing every day.

Google’s share in the mobile advertising market could decline from ~53% in 2012 to 47% in 2014.

Box was created due to changes in the way users store and collaborate on files.

There’s no shortage of companies offering services similar to what Box offers.

The Chicago-based Orbitz Worldwide Inc. (OWW) is a global online travel company (or OTC). It recently posted a net loss for the first quarter of 2014 although its revenue grew, driven by hotel bookings.

The popular Internet radio service Pandora, which revolutionized the way people listen to music, posted its highest quarterly earnings in the calendar fourth quarter 2013, since its IPO in 2011.

WhatsApp competes with apps such as Line and WeChat in the mobile messaging industry, but it’s the global leader and is quite popular—especially in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

On February 19, Facebook (FB) announced its purchase of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock.