Reuters: SAP will pay Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) $1.3 billion for copyright infringement. Reuters: The FBI sent warnings to a number of more hedge funds. Reuters: The euro fell to two month lows on concerns…
The pundits are all abuzz over the initial proposals to cut the deficit. The extremes on left and right are united in a spirit of condemnation: the left won’t broach cuts in social services,…
A federal jury ruled in favor of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) in a copyright infringement case against SAP, according to a number of media reports. The sum of the award was $1.3 billion. Oracle had…
There are several big knocks on the development of renewable energy solutions. The first, of course, is cost. The second is intermittency, that is the inability of wind or solar generation to work when…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Arm Holdings Plc. (NASDAQ: ARMH), Brocade Communication Systems, inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD), China Techfaith…
Updated throughout the day. J Crew Group (NYSE: JCG) may be bought by private equity interests for $2.8 billion (NYT) Private equity firm Carlyle will buy Patni Computer for $1 billion (Reuters) Former SAC…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has upgraded it fiber-to-the-home FiOS system so that it can offer download speeds of 150 megabits per second and uploads of 35 Mbps. The service will be offered to the 12.5…
The current Congress does not have much time to do anything before members go home. Some of them will never return. Americans, though, still want Congress to come up with solutions to the country’s…
Nissan announced that : The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved its fuel-economy label for the 100-percent electric Nissan LEAF, rating the vehicle to be “best” in the midsize vehicle class for fuel efficiency…
Among the causes of the spread of crude from the leak caused by an explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig were that the federal government was in no position to assess the size of…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) raised its earnings outlook for 2011. (Reuters) J Crew Group (NYSE: JCG) is close to a $2.8 billion takeover by private equity interests. (Reuters) Oil fell to near $81 on eurozone…
Is it patriotic for a group of 45 millionaires to petition the government to raise their taxes? You betcha. In fact, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength are willing to sacrifice their own fiscal well-being…
Verdict: Very Bad Shadow inventory of unsold homes jumped in the month of August, according to CoreLogic “CoreLogic estimates shadow inventory, sometimes called pending supply, by calculating the number of properties that are seriously delinquent…
The mayor and residents of St. Louis will not like this, but the city is the most crime-ridden in the United States. This may shock some, as most people would have guessed Detroit, or…
Earlier this month, while everyone’s attention was focused on the midterm elections, the US Department of Education published proposed new rules governing access to federal direct and federally guaranteed student loans. The most controversial…
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will not admit publicly that its DVD-via-mail business is dying. But, its announcement today that it will offer an “internet only” product is a powerful hint that the company sees its…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Affymax, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFY), Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX), Cirrus Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRUS), Gold…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twitter…
Several experts estimate that as many as 130 million shoppers will visit stores or online retail sites on Black Friday. The number is deceiving. The National Retail Federation expects the holiday sales of its…