Google (GOOG) See Explosion In Mobile Ads
Just when Wall St. thought Google’s (GOOG) growth might begin to slow because it already has such a huge piece of the PC market, the company says that mobile advertising is about to explode.…
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Year: 2008
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Newest first · Page 397Confusion Over Goldman Sachs Layoffs Reporting (GS)
Shares of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) had traded up this morning after the open, but shares are now in negative territory. There have been reports originally out of Reuters that Goldman Sachs is apparently…
RiskMetrics IPO Sits In The Sweet Spot (RMG)
RiskMetrics Group, Inc. (NYSE: RMG) priced its long-awaited IPO of 14 million shares at $17.50 per share. This was actually at the low-end of the $17 to $19 range, and you can probably blame…
VMware Initiation Today Looks Conservative (VMW, EMC)
VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) has been one incredible post-IPO after EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) partially spun-off the virtualization leader in August 2007. It picked up new coverage this morning after William Blair & Company…
Harley-Davidson Not As Bad As One Might Guess (HOG)
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) posted its earnings results for the fourth quarter at $0.78 EPS, a drop of more than 19% compared to Q4-2006; revenues were $1.39 Billion, down almost 8% from Q4-2006. First…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (MT, T, CRA, ELC, WFR, MSFT, OVTI, RDS, TEN, TXT)
These are not the only upgrades and downgrades on stocks this morning, but these are the main ones that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in early pre-market hours: Arcelor Mittal (NYSE: MT) raised to Buy…
Europe Markets 1/25/2008 (BHP)(VOD)(ALU)
Markets in Europe were higher at 6.25 AM New York time. The FTSE rose 1.3% to 5,937. BHP Billiton (BHP) rose 4% to 1441. Vodafone (VOD) rose 4% to 178. The DAXX moved up…
Gates Finally Trumps Jobs: MSFT Vs. AAPL
For Bill Gates the wait must have seemed to last more than a lifetime. Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL) both became modest-sized businesses in the early 1980s. But the Bill Gates’ company murdered Apple…
No Recession For Video Games Or Hamburgers
"It is a very counter-cyclical industry," Burger King (BKC) Chief Executive John Chidsey told Reuters. Have a look at the menu at the fast food chain or at larger competitor McDonald’s (MCD). A person…
Media Digest 1/25/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) posted a 79% increase in proffits. Reuters writes that Alan Greenspan says the US is not yet in a recession. Reuters reports that the CEO of Sony (SNE) says…
Asia Markets 1/25/2008
Markets in Asia were shsrply higher The Nikkei rose 4.1% to 13,529. NEC rose 8.2% to 449. Toyota (TM) rose 6.3% to 5570. The Hang Seng rose 6,7% to 25,122. China Life (LFC) rose…
Jim Cramer’s Stimulus Package & Turnaround Stocks
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer noted that selling stocks today isn’t a good idea and that this will be good for retail stocks and others too. You have to keep in…
E*Trade Aims To Turn A Profit In 2008 (ETFC, AMTD, ETFC)
E*Trade (NASDAQ: ETC) has been the most battered and brutalized of the large discount brokers and online brokers out there. It quite frankly deserved it after the company publicly understated its gross mortgage exposure…
Lazard’s Defense of SunPower (SPWR)
SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR) posted a lackluster guidance after earnings this morning and this originally had most of the other key solar stocks trading much lower. Most of these recovered handily in the morning and…
Broadcom Learns From Prior Quarter Mistakes (BRCM)
Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) posted Q4-2007 non-GAAP earnings of $0.34 diluted EPS, up from $0.27 in Q3-2007 and up from $0.31 in Q4-2006. Revenues were $1.027 Billion, up 8.1% from the $950.0 million reported…