courtesy of BlackBerryWhen Research In Motion unveiled its long-delayed BlackBerry 10, it also announced it was changing its name to BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). CEO Thorsten Heins argued that the new name reflects how the…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues its national employment numbers each month, private payrolls are separated from government payroll data, which includes federal, state and local workers. The separation…
ThinkstockJim Cramer of TheStreet Inc. (NASDAQ: TST) and The Motley Fool believe that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) should buy LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD). LinkedIn has three lines of revenue, all of which come from…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Bendable glass, more powerful mini-chips, and an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) product line that appears to have stalled in an effort to create brand new products have fueled speculation that the…
courtesy of NetflixGermany continues to battle France over the use of stimulus to help jump-start the EU economy. (Reuters) U.S. Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC) and AMR probably will close an $11 billion merger this…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt may sell up to $2.5 billion of his shares, although the action has been overblown by the press. The Rule 10b5-1 plan allows him to make the sales,…
Southeastern Asset Management, which owns 8.5% of Dell’s shares outstanding, has filed documents and a letter to Dell Inc.’s (NASDAQ: DELL) board that objects to the planned LBO. The letter makes it clear, Michael…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning boosted by higher-than-expected trade balances in China (more coverage here) and in the U.S. (more coverage here). In Europe the big news came later in the morning,…
ThinkstockThe latest data from Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) shows that drilling rig counts in North America rose by 1 in the week ending today and fell by 308 from the comparable period a…
Thinkstock LED tool maker Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) said today that it would miss the deadline for fourth quarter and full year 2012 revenue and earnings filings. Shares have lost more than 5%…
ThinkstockDo winter storms really need to be named storms? In all honesty, this is something that from the eyes and ears of a financial news analyst looks and sounds a lot like an opportunity…
courtesy of USPSThe U.S. Postal Service said today that its fourth-quarter deficit totaled $1.3 billion. That’s $2 billion less than the deficit the service ran in the fourth quarter of 2011. The USPS said…
ThinkstockThe Motorola unit of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) lost 13 patent claims it had lodged against Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) way back in 2010 when Motorola was still an independent company. The federal judge…
ThinkstockU.K. Prime Minister David Cameron prevailed in his determination to reduce the European Union’s (EU) seven-year project budget, the first time in the 27-member group’s history that the project budget has shrunk. The chop…
ThinkstockIf you hear word associations sometimes, what is the first competing company that would come to mind when you hear RadioShack? Most will say Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), while others will list…