Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) wants to make it clear that it expects its Bing search engine to enjoy the same success in China that the software company believes it will have in the US market. Redmond told…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has had trouble figuring out how it will make money from its huge video sharing website YouTube since it bought the company for $1.65 billion in October 2006. In 2007, Viacom filed…
Consumer confidence and spending will rise very sharply over the next three months based on new data from research firm ChangeWave. The firm’s December survey of 2,690 people indicates that 35% of them will…
comScore, which measures online consumer behavior, is among the best companies at analyzing traffic to websites. comScore also decodes what people do when they get to their online destinations. The value of the data…
Nothing stays safe forever, at least not in the world of information technology and digital communication. Hackers are able to break into sophisticated bank security systems and steal money. Talented coders recently shut down…
Short sellers took huge positions in major banks and telecom companies in the two-week period ending December 15. The short interest in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 30% to 281 million ahead of the bank closing its…
Reuters: GM is offering huge incentives to sell its inventory of Pontiacs and Saturns. Reuters: Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will overhaul the pay of senior management. Reuters: The departing AIG (NYSE:AIG) general counsel will get millions…
Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose a fraction to 10,638. Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Honda (NYSE:HMC) moved up. JAL hit record lows on fears of bankruptcy. The Hang Seng was up 1% to…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) closed at another new all-time high today of $211.61 and $213.95 on an intra-day basis. What is actually far more important than reports of a note from Broadpoint AmTech…
Codexis, Inc. has filed its paperwork with the SEC for an initial public offering. The company plans to trade under the ticker “CDXS” on NASDAQ. Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs are the joint book-runners,…
The death of an ETF is generally viewed as a failure or as an ill omen for other related ETF’s. Today that is not the case despite the death of two exchange traded products. …
There was an interesting filing for an initial public offering that was put in at the SEC after most investors, brokers, advisors, and traders had already headed home either for Christmas of for the…
Crude oil futures rose to their highest point in seven weeks this morning, trading above $79/barrel. Cold, snowy weather in the Northeast and the Midwest are the likely suspects for the increase because traders…
We have seen what appears to be a mixed bag of shares listed in the short interest of the most active NASDAQ tech stocks traded day in and day out. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL),…
We have compiled Monday’s top pre-market day trader and active trader alert stocks. There is a link to each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is hitting new…
Updated throughout the day. Shoppers may have spent a little more this holiday season than last (CNBC) JAL may file for Chapter 11 (Reuters) Cascade Bancorp (NYSE:CACB) withdrew a $93 million common stock offering (Portland…
By Douglas A. McIntyre A number of media, including the Nikkei business daily, are reporting that the Japanese government is considering taking its huge flagship carrier JAL into bankruptcy. The news follows recent proposals…
By John Tamny of Forbes In his essential book The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith observed that “Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct.” Or, put more simply, self-interested savers…
There was an interesting filing out during the Christmas holiday showing that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) weren’t in the holiday spirit for much of 2008. There were 21,000 fewer employees…
There were 30,800 car dealerships in the US in 1970. There were 20,770 in the country in 2008 and that was before hundreds of locations where closed by large car companies, particularly GM and…