Filed under: Facebook , Market News Investment adviser Mark Matson’s firm manages more than $3 billion for thousands of investors, and he’s a big believer in coaching those clients in the art of prudent financial planning. But the CEO of Matson Money isn’t doing the majority of that advising to people facing him across a mahogany desk or in a wainscoted boardroom at his Mason, Ohio, offices. He’s spreading his message on Facebook, Twitter and LiveStream

Filed under: Technology , Media , Apple , Amazon.com Amazon.com ( AMZN ) turned heads last year with its economically priced tablet, but necks are apparently stiffening up these days. Tech tracker IDC is reporting that Amazon sold just 750,000 of its $199 Kindle Fire tablets during the first three months of the year, well off the 4.8 million units that it sold during last year’s fourth quarter. There are plenty of perfectly good explanations that account for part of the slide

Filed under: Media , Netflix , Viacom , Entertainment If Viacom ( VIAB ) has a claim to fame among the pre-high-school set, its name is Nickelodeon. Home to kiddie staples ranging from Dora the Explorer to SpongeBob SquarePants to iCarly , the Nickelodeon network is “top-rated” among kids, Viacom boasts.

Filed under: Media , Netflix , Entertainment Mad Men is now several weeks into its fifth season on AMC Networks’ ( AMCX ) AMC. When the new season of occasionally decadent and rarely sober 1960s ad executives on Madison Avenue treated AMC to a 20% spike in ratings — after a long hiatus — it didn’t require lead marketer Don Draper’s creative imagination to figure out the catalyst. The availability of the show’s first four seasons as streaming content on Netflix ( NFLX ) have helped broaden the show’s reach in a dramatic way

Filed under: Technology , Media , Google , Viacom There’s no point in letting an unresolved $1 billion lawsuit get in the way of a good thing. Even though Viacom ( VIA ) and Google’s ( GOOG ) YouTube are still embroiled in a five-year legal tussle over unauthorized clips showing up on the world’s leading video-sharing website, the two companies are coming together on a digital streaming deal . Viacom’s Paramount is now renting hundreds of its releases through YouTube’s fledgling premium video service