Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will allow online publishers to limit the number of stories that Google News runs from them each day, a victory for some publishers who think that giving away free content is bad for…
Measurements from online research site Experian Hitwise show that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been the most visited e-commerce site during the holiday shopping season since 2006. It is in the process of extending that lead and its…
Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) claims that 84% of the shareholders of its takeover target Tandberg have voted for the sales of the company. Cisco has said that if it does not have 90% of Tandberg shareholder support…
There are a number of reasons that current GM Chairman and former AT&T (NYSE:T) chief Ed Whitacre is an extremely poor choice to run the car company. The most obvious is that he has…
Reuters: The GM board pushed out CEO Henderson. Reuters: Bernanke will defend the Fed’s record and his before Congress. Reuters: China will let foreigners set up limited partnerships. Reuters: Manufacturing is growing again but…
Market is Asia were higher. The Nikkie rose .3% to 9,609. The Hang Seng was up .7% to 22,267. Geely Auto hit an all-time high. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.1% to 3,270. At…
Nintendo (NTDOY) had a major winner on its hands with the Wii gaming system. Yet no fad lasts forever. It has been known for some time that the Wii gaming system was falling victim…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) may be the unexpected winner of cyber-shopping for the 2009 holiday shopping season. Today, the company released data showing that its PayPal unit posted strong gains for yesterday on the…
General Motors may be looking more like Government Motors every day. Fritz Henderson is stepping down according to a report from CNBC’s Phil Lebeau, citing sources. What is not clear is if Henderson was…
IndexIQ is no stranger to ETFs with non-traditional investment goals. IndexIQ recently launched an ETF called the IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage Exchange-Traded Fund (NYSE: MNA), which is the first ETF we have seen out…
CNBC’s David Faber just reported that the NBC Universal deal terms between General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) and Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) are about to be signed.
GM is being pulled out of US soil by its roots. For the first time in history the company posted monthly sales in a foreign country that were higher than the domestic figure. GM’s November…
There is some growing technical concern that is coming in the S&P 500 Index, which of course most trade via the SPDR (NYSE: SPY) ETF or the Spyders. This is one of the older…
There is still a flood of secondary offerings coming down the pipe. We have secondaries from Consolidated Edison Inc. (NYSE: ED), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP), Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC (NYSE: VNR),…
The acquisition of Diedrich Coffee, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDRX) is getting even more heated. We have seen a raised bid from Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEET) to acquire Diedrich’s for $32.50 per share…
GM reports that the company and its joint ventures sold 177,339 vehicles in China in November, an increase of 110%. GM’s sales in the US were down by a third in the first three quarters of this…
We have been given some exclusive coverage on the recent developments in special purpose acquisition companies and blank check companies from SPACupdate.com this morning. There are deal updates and calendar events in United Energy…
Updated throughout the day. The Somali pirates claim to have started their own “stock exchange” (CNBC, Reuters) E*Trade (NASDAQ:ETFC) will probably not be sold to TDAmeritrade (NASDAQ:AMTD) (The Street) Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is in talks to stream TV…
These are this Tuesday’s top pre-market day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have more detailed volume and price data and analysis on each stock with a link to VSInvestor.com: American International Group,…
By John Tamny of Forbes “Without short sellers, ‘there would be no one to criticize and restrain the false optimism that always leads to disaster.'” ~ Bernard Baruch Amid the difficult markets of…