Home Depot Raises Dividend After Mixed Results
Home Depot reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 earnings before markets opened Tuesday morning. The home improvement retailer also raised its quarterly dividend.
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SolarCity Delays Earnings Release and Investors React
ThinkstockSolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY) reported some preliminary fourth quarter 2013 results after the markets closed on Monday, but the solar PV installer delayed until next week its full earnings results. The company said the…
The 4 Stocks That Dominated the Market on Monday
thinkstockFebruary 24, 2014: Markets opened higher on Monday on their way to a solid gain. The energy sector led the markets today as crude prices jumped on concerns over unrest in the Middle East…
Samsung Galaxy S5: Not Bold Enough?
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.One of the most anticipated announcements at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the introduction of the Galaxy S5 smartphone by Samsung Electronics. The time has come, but Samsung…
Good News and Bad at Boeing
Boeing said Sunday that 2,300 machinists in St. Louis represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have approved a contract extension through 2022.
RF Micro, TriQuint Merger May Not Satisfy Activist Investor
RF Micro Devices announced Monday morning that it will merge with TriQuint Semiconductor in an all stock transaction valued at around $1.6 billion. Shareholder Starboard Value is not getting much out of the announced…
Investors Bail on J.C. Penney Before Earnings
J.C. Penney is running out of time, not to say money, and the company seems pretty complacent and satisfied that it is doing all it can to recover. Shareholders were not seeing it that…
Can Nokia Save BlackBerry?
Shares of BlackBerry got a lift Monday morning following the company's announcement that its BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM) will be available on both the Windows Phone and Android-based Nokia X phones.
Verizon: The First Day of the Rest of Its Life
Verizon Communications last Friday completed its acquisition of the 45% minority stake in Verizon Wireless held by Vodafone. On Monday morning, Verizon released its revised financial outlook for the current year.
Netflix Did Not Sell Out to Comcast
Most opinion seems to be that Netflix gave up on its stand for net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated identically, when it agreed to pay a fee to improve…
Palo Alto Networks Aims at All-Time High on Earnings
Since coming public in July of 2012, Palo Alto Networks has had its ups and downs. The stock posted an all-time high last Friday, but it took a long time to get those last…
Nokia Launches Android-Based Phone; Google Giggles
The World Mobile Congress currently going on in Barcelona will generate some surprises, but Nokia's announcement of a cheap, Android-based smartphone is not one of them. The phone has been rumored to be in…
IPOs: Weekly Review and Preview
ThinkstockThe initial public offering (IPO) market took a breather last week. Only one IPO was scheduled, and it did not occur. For next week, we are expecting two launches, one for a medical technology…
Is This Really a Solution to Rail Tank Car Explosions?
ThinkstockThe railroad industry is patting itself on the back for agreeing to a number of steps that it says will make a “safe rail network even safer.” The U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal…
Samsung Ditches Android on New Smartwatch
Samsung ElectronicsWe can expect a blizzard of new product announcements and just plain announcements from the Mobile World Congress that kicked off Sunday morning in Barcelona. First out of the chute was Samsung Electronics…
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Improves Non-Touch Controls, Slashes Price
ThinkstockOne of the major flaws in Windows 8 from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) was its touch-screen interface. At least, that was a flaw according to users who told the company time and again that…
Charter Communications Still Wants to Make Deals
ThinkstockThe $45 billion buyout that Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) offered Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWC) chopped the legs right out from under Charter Communications Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CHTR) offer of around $37 billion. But Charter’s…
Does Barnes & Noble Have a Better Offer?
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.After Friday’s announcement that G Asset Management had offered $22 a share for a 51% stake in Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS), or failing that, $5 a share for…
Apple Takes Low-Key Approach to Fix Major Security Flaw
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) posted patches to its iOS mobile operating systems on Friday to fix a hole in iOS 6 and iOS 7 that would have allowed “an attacker with…
PlayStation 4 Nearly Impossible to Find
courtesy of Sony Corp.Maybe it’s because Saturday is launch day in Japan for the PlayStation 4 from Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), but the company’s hot-selling new game console is practically non-existent on retailers’ shelves…