Ryan Jacob

Apple (AAPL) broke its silence in the advertising battle going on between AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). The iPhone maker launched its ad campaign this week showing an iPhone user talking on the phone while surfing the Web as a voice asks, "Can your phone and your network do that?" It's Apple's...

Ryan Jacob was arguably the most popular mutual fund manager a decade ago when, while still in his 20s, he ran one of the few funds focused on internet stocks. Kinetics Asset Management's Internet Fund was the best performing U.S. equity fund in 1998, enjoying a 198 percent return. It rose over 500...

About a week ago, my iPhone and my BlackBerry flew off the roof of my car as I drove down a New Jersey road at about 35 miles per hour. As I looked in my rear view mirror and saw my beige canvas bag flying from my car to the road below, I pulled over to the emergency lane, jumped out of the car,...

With all the hype generated from Monday's introduction of new Apple iPhones, one item possibly overlooked is that Apple will be selling an iPhone for less than $100. "There's nothing even close to an 8GB iPhone that's close to $99," said Ryan Jacob, who manages the Jacob Internet Fund, which owns...

From zero to a billion in nine months: iTunes customers have now downloaded one billion applications from its App Store, Apple said Friday in a press release. How did we live without our Apple (AAPL) iPhone apps 10 months ago? At first naysayers said, Who needs 'em? Now it's, How many do we...