Sprint (NYSE: S) is about to release a new phone from Samsung which has many of the features of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. According to MarketWatch "The new Samsung Instinct, available from Sprint…
Shares of LoJack Corporation (NASDAQ: LOJN) are being hit hard in after-hours trading. The company is issuing an earnings warning for 2008, although it is quick to point out that this is believed to…
Globalstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: GSAT) intends to offer $135 million of Convertible Senior Notes due 2028, with a $15 million overallotment. Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. will act as joint Book-Running Managers for…
Teradata Corp (TDC) Not any news. Slow sell-off all day. Down to $20.11 from 52-week high of $30.08. Wilsons The Leather Experts (WLSN) CEO leaving. Falls to $.14 from 52-week high of $2.36. Pacificnet…
Another director of Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC) has unloaded his holdings as the stock was trading north of a buyout price for some time. Paul A. Novelly, a director, has unloaded 125,000…
Talbots (NYSE: TLB) is seeing shares surge today after the apparel maker and retailer unveiled its strategic plan for long-term growth and for productivity improvement. For starters, the company reaffirmed its guidance and it…
It says a lot when sales of Toyota’s (TM) are actually falling. In March, vehicle sales for the big Japanese company fell 10.3% in the US market to 217,730, Total passenger car sales fell…
New research out today shows that Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) Blackberry still holds the high ground in the smartphone business, but Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is marking significant inroads. Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) continues to…
There was an interesting communication from The Blackstone Group, L.P. (NYSE: BX) this morning and the company issued a press release confirming that data. Blackstone announced the closing of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VI. …
In March, Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 213,074, down 14 percent compared with a year ago. Sales to individual retail customers were 17 percent lower than a year ago, with essentially the entire…
Mercadolibre, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELI) is in a unique spot as it serves an online payment and e-commerce gateway and platform throughout much of Latin America. The company’s stock is also down close to 50%…
Lazard Capital Markets analyst Sanjay Shrestha has come out maintaining his Buy recommendation on several names in the alternative energy space. Energy Conversion Devices (NASDAQ: ENER) maintain BUY rating and $40.00 target. Lazard met…
Shares of Frontier Airlines (FRNT) are off 12% today to $2.23. The shares have a 52-week high of $7.46. Early this morning the The International Air Transport Association speaking about industry profits said "This…
After 24/7 Wall St. published the Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs we decided to look at some niche content sites which compete with blogs and should have similar valuation data. One of these content sites…
JANA Partners LLC has released a detailed white paper analysis of CNET Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: CNET). As you can guess, the activist investor group is rather disappointed with CNET. The groups that JANA has…
BPW Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: BPW.U) is another one of these special purpose acquisition companies ("SPAC") that came public in recent weeks. The SPAC has announced that, starting today, April 1, 2008, its unit-holders from…
A company called BioTrove, Inc. has filed to come public via an initial public offering this morning. It has applied to take the proposed ticker of "BTRV" on NASDAQ. BioTrove has filed to sell…
O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: ORLY) has announced that it and CSK Auto Corporation (NYSE: CAO) have signed a definitive merger agreement. O’Reilly will acquire CSK in a transaction valued at approximately $1 Billion, after…
Energy Recovery, Inc. has filed to come public via an initial public offering. The company lists that it will sell up to $175 million in stock in the offering, although that is merely for…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has recently been under fire from critics over its side-operations in going green and its own space-race. It isn’t the coolness factor that is the issue, but the falling share…