Sony’s (SNE) New Plan To Drive Away Customers
Sony’s (SNE) PS3 has not sold as well as the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii. But, the Japanese company has dropped prices and more games are coming out to add to the…
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Year: 2008
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Newest first · Page 234Motorola (MOT): A New Chief For A Busted Company
Motorola (MOT) may be close to finding a new CEO for its handset division. It is his job to do what two generations of management before him could not. He is being asked to…
A Risk As China And India Move From Underwriting Oil (PTR)(SNP)
India and China are starting to get the message that they cannot buy oil cheap and sell by-products like gas and diesel low. When the deficits start to hit hundreds of billion of dollars,…
AMD (AMD): Still Too Far Behind
AMD (AMD) is about to launch it new chip for laptops. It will be helpful to consumers who want extra-special graphics and should help save battery power. AMD’s share of the laptop market is…
Apple (AAPL): The iPhone Launches In Japan
Apple (AAPL) still has not penetrated on of the world’s largest cellphone markets–Japan. Now that is changing as one of the largest cellular carriers there, Softbank, will begin to market the phone. The move…
Media Digest 6/4/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, domestic car sales took a huge dip in May. Reuters writes that UAL (UAUA) will announce more job cuts and rate cuts. Reuters reports that Yahoo! (YHOO) has set July 1…
Asia Markets 6/4/2008 (HMC)(TM)(LFC)
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.6% to 14,436. Honda (HMC) rose 8.6% to 3790. Nissan rose 5.3% to 974. Toyota (TM) rose 3.2% to 5,570. The Hang Seng was flat. China…
S&P Boots AMBAC (ABK, LO, CG, LTR)
After the close of trading today, Standard & Poor’s announced that it is booting Ambac Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: ABK) out of the S&P 500 Index. The company’s size has gotten too small to…
The 52-Week Low Club (PFE)(RF)(EK)(JAVA)(WB)
Wachovia (WB) Sacking of CEO is still driving away shareholders. Down to $21.04 from 52-week high of $54.54. Sun Microsystems (JAVA) sells off on concerns that the company’s bad forecasts could get worse. Down…
A Viking Funeral For Sun Microsystems (JAVA)
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) hit a new 52-week low of $12.32. The market has believed for some time that the server company will have a poor year with relatively flat revenue and little or no…
GM (GM) Sales Go To Hell
GM (GM) reported a 28% drop in May domestic sales to 268,892 cars and trucks from 371,056 a year ago. Cars dropped 14% while trucks fell 37%. GM blamed strikes, including the three-month break…
Stevia One Step Closer To Food & Beverage Market (KO, PEP)
If you have been a "diet" or zero calorie soft drink beverage drinker or have used artificial sweeteners on foods, there has always been the issue of "what are you putting into your body?". …
MarketAxess Scores on Cap Raise (MKTX)
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTX) has raised some $35 million from Technology Crossover Ventures. The financing involves the sale of preferred stock and warrants at a conversion price of $10.00 per share, which is…
Boston Scientific Keeps CEO Tobin But Dumps COO (BSX)
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) is making a move which may be a questionable one if you have followed this stock for a while. The company said that President and CEO Jim Tobin will…
Small Businesses Hit By Credit Environment
The Small Business Administration’s most popular small-business loan is down 19 percent nationally in volume from the same time a year ago, based on agency data. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch "The reason…