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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 3, 2012: Modest Gains Before Fireworks Go Off

Posted: July 3, 2012 at 1:06 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened roughly flat this morning as European markets traded in advance of an expected cut in interest rates by the European Central Bank later ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 2, 2012: A Mixed Monday on Wall Street

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 4:07 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened only slightly higher this morning as European markets traded a little stronger today on lower yields for both Spanish and Italian sovereign debt. ...
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Samsung Leads Smartphone Market

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 3:01 pm

The latest rankings are out from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) on the US smartphone device and platform markets. Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) leads the device makers with a 25.7% market ...
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Coming Soon — Mozilla’s Smartphone OS

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 1:44 pm

The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox web browser, today said that it would issue a smartphone operating system platform as the Firefox OS. The platform has been known ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — June 29, 2012: Stocks Soar on European Bailout News

Posted: June 29, 2012 at 4:06 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened sharply higher this morning after a report from Brussels that the EU had agreed to proposal for bailing out the Eurozone’s banks (our ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — June 28, 2012: Obamacare Ruling Big News, But Hard to Figure Impact This Quickly

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 4:04 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning and stayed in losing territory all day as investors first figured out that the two-day Eurozone summit meeting would very ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — June 25, 2012: Markets Crushed Nearly 2%

Posted: June 25, 2012 at 4:04 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning as markets have begun to reach the conclusion that this week’s Eurozone summit is not likely to resolve the continent’s ...
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RIM Deathwatch: Maria Bartiromo Dumps BlackBerry for iPhone

Posted: June 22, 2012 at 5:54 pm

Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) just lost one of its biggest fans. If you have been watching CNBC for years, you know by now that many of the anchors ...
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Android to Top Mobile Operating Systems, But Windows Will Outpace iOS by 2016 (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT, NOK, RIMM)

Posted: June 6, 2012 at 2:48 pm

Growth in mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be about 4%, the lowest growth rate since 2009. That’s according to the latest global mobile phone tracking data from ...
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RIM Preparing for Layoffs (RIMM, AAPL, GOOG, SSNLF, NOK, MSFT)

Posted: May 29, 2012 at 8:08 am

Canadian-based smartphone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is expected to fire about 2,000 employees as soon as the end of this week as the struggling company tries to ...
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Mobile Advertising Booming on Tablets (AAPL, AMZN, SSNLF, GOOG, RIMM, NOK, BKS, MM)

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 1:32 pm

In the first quarter of 2012, the leading maker of mobile devices as measured by page impressions was Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), followed by Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF.PK), HTC Corp., ...
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Kodak Loses Patent Decision — What’s the Company Worth Now? (EKDKQ, AAPL, RIMM, SSNLF)

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 2:39 pm

A ruling by a US International Trade Commission judge has declared a patent claimed by Eastman Kodak (OTC: EKDKQ) to be invalid, casting even more doubt on the value of ...
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New Board at Canadian Pacific Wastes No Time

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 9:11 am

The 16-member board of directors of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (NYSE: CP) today includes 7 new members nominated by William Ackman and his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management. The ...
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Mobile Phone Sales Fall in Q1 — Gartner

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 8:07 am

High-tech industry research firm Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) reports this morning the worldwide sales of mobile phones unexpectedly fell -2% in the first quarter of 2012, to a total of ...
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Oracle Toyed with the Idea of Buying RIM, Palm (ORCL, RIMM, HPQ, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: April 17, 2012 at 3:21 pm

In testimony in the copyright infringement case brought by Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) against Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that his company considered buying smartphone makers ...
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